The Pig Book - How Government Wastes Your Money (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)

The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of:
- $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa
- $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil
- $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri
- $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa )
- $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California
- $1 million for ornamental fish research
Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, "The Pig Book" proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king

General

Imprint:	St. Martin's Griffin
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2005
First published:	April 2005
Authors:	Citizens Against Government Waste
Dimensions:	217 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	187
Edition:	1st U.S. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-34357-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Pressure groups & lobbying
LSN:	0-312-34357-4
Barcode:	9780312343576

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