It's easy to knock the earmark process when citing examples like $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut or $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa. But when it comes to defense earmarks meant to protect our men and women in battle, it...
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Alexa Shrugged
on 05-20-2009
Filed under: wasteful spending, pork, government spending, earmarks, spending, military spending, transparency
"Transparent government is good government, and good government has nothing to hide from the taxpayers who fund it." So said Joe Calomino , Illinois State Director for Americans for Prosperity, in response to the Illinois legislature passing House Bill 35 last week, also known as the Illinois...
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Despina Karras
on 05-19-2009
Filed under: State budgets, spending, Illinois, transparency, corruption