Pork! Annual Report

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http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2004

This is the annual pig book report by the Citizens Against Government Waste. Check out how your elected officials are blowing your tax dollars.

This year’s total reveals that Congress porked out at record levels. For fiscal 2004, appropriators stuck 10,656 projects in the 13 appropriations bills, an increase of 13 percent over last year’s total of 9,362. In the last two years, the total number of projects has increased 28 percent. The cost of these projects in fiscal 2004 was $22.9 billion, or 1.6 percent more than last year’s total of $22.5 billion.

Peruse this page and prepare to be shocked and pissed at the same time.