From boortz...
The $286.4 billion transportation legislation is so overloaded with pork that it contains 6,371 pet projects for all 535 members of Congress...our politicians are confiscating your personal wealth to buy votes from people in their districts?
One of the more outrageous examples is funding for a bridge in Alaska, secured by Republican Representative Don Young. $231 million will go for a bridge near Anchorage to be called...yup...you guessed it..."Don Young's Way." Another outrage is this one: $2.3 million for landscaping along the Ronald Reagan Freeway in California.
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Sad to say just like the old Democratic party, the one supportive of national defense over partisan politics died, so has the one old Republican virtue - responsible spending. The temptation to buy votes for re-election using constituents' hard earned wages was too much for either party to resist.