Give me one example of Political Pork Barrel?

Question

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Answer 1

$6.6 million in federal dollars to a city of about 40,000 (Burlington VT) people to make some streets in the downtown area look like the main pedestrian shopping street that is the focal point of the area- brick pavers instead of paved etc- a museum for Woodstock(not going to happen) a multi million dollar bridge to an Island with a handful of inhabitants in Alaska, the entire State of West Virginia where everything is named after pork master Robert Byrd. There are so many examples it isnt funny. The funny thing is that everyone gets mad at the other senators and congressmen for taking home pork but get mad AT their senators and congressman if they DONT bring home the pork. Whose fault is it really??? OURS

Answer 2

Pork Barrell spending is spending appropriated to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their support.

One of the earliest examples of pork barrel politics in the
United States was the Bonus Bill of 1817, which was introduced by John C. Calhoun to construct highways linking the East and South of the United States to its Western frontier using the earnings bonus from the Second Bank of the United States. Calhoun argued for it using general welfare and post roads clauses of the United States Constitution. Although he approved of the economic development goal, President James Madison vetoed the bill as unconstitutional. Since then, however, U.S. presidents have seen the political advantage of pork barrel politics. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first appearances of the term in the late 19th century:

Answer 3

Pork is a short term for "Bringing home the Bacon".
It is the Taxpayer's money from outside of your community your Congressman brings into your community and it qualifies as "Pork Barrel" if it is a waste if the taxpayers money, or money spent unwisely.
An example could be: Money for your local college to do research on the breeding habits of cockroaches. Or an extra unneeded bridge in your home community when your neighboring community represented by another Congressman doesn't get a bridge where one was truly needed.

Answer 4

Examples Of Pork Barrel

One of the earliest examples of pork barrel politics in the United States was the Bonus Bill of 1817, which was introduced by John C. Calhoun to construct highways linking the East and South of the United States to its Western frontier using the earnings bonus from the Second Bank of the United States. Calhoun argued for it using general welfare and post roads clauses of the United States Constitution. Although he approved of the economic development goal, President James Madison vetoed the bill as unconstitutional. Since then, however, U.S. presidents have seen the political advantage of pork barrel politics. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the first appearances of the term in the late 19th century:

1873 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 13 Sept. 1/8 Recollecting their many previous visits to the public pork-barrel,..this hue-and-cry over the salary grab..puzzles quite as much as it alarms them. 1896 Overland Monthly Sept. 370/2 Another illustration represents Mr. Ford in the act of hooking out a chunk of River and Harbor Pork out of a Congressional Pork Barrel valued at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.[citation needed]

One of the most famous (or infamous) pork-barrel projects was the Big Dig in Boston, Massachusetts. The Big Dig was a project to take a pre-existing 3.5 mile interstate highway and relocate it underground. It ended up costing $14.6 billion or over $4 billion per mile.[4]

Pork barrel projects or earmarks are added to the federal budget by members of the appropriation committees of Congress. This allows delivery of federal funds to the local district or state of the appropriation committee member, often accommodating major campaign contributors. To a certain extent a congressman is judged by their ability to deliver funds to their constituents. The Chairman and the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations are in a position to deliver significant benefits to their states. Likewise a Representative such as Anne M. Northup (R-Ky.), a Republican first elected in 1997 from the previously Democratic 3rd Congressional district (Louisville, Kentucky), was able to deliver significant financial benefits to her district through her appointment as a freshman member to the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations.

Answer 5

about a year ago a representative from Alaska was able to get $1.5 million to build a bus stop, not a bus station, a bus stop. (Alaska is infamous for pork barreling however infrastructure is expensive to build there.)

Answer 6

bridge to nowhere in alaska for 2 million....as a favor to the scoundrel that supports bushco

Answer 7

Senator Robert "KKK" Byrd

Damn near everything in his state was paid for by Federal $$$.

Answer 8

West VA has more interstate highways than any other state in union.

Answer 9

Where Bush lives.

Answer 10

the "bridge to nowhere"