http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/04/06/national-pork-service/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/04/06/national-pork-service/#comment-6687 Two years of Homeland Stupidity - Homeland Stupidity Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:32:05 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/04/06/national-pork-service/#comment-6687 [...] This isn’t just a problem for the military. Homeland Security suffers from a major pork problem. Nobody outside D.C. really likes pork, so why does it keep coming back? There’s no end in sight to the waste of money, thanks to people like Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), the Prince of Pork, who diverted untold numbers of contracts worth God only knows how much back to his district, whether it made sense or not, and regardless of the damage to national security. [...] [...] This isn’t just a problem for the military. Homeland Security suffers from a major pork problem. Nobody outside D.C. really likes pork, so why does it keep coming back? There’s no end in sight to the waste of money, thanks to people like Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.), the Prince of Pork, who diverted untold numbers of contracts worth God only knows how much back to his district, whether it made sense or not, and regardless of the damage to national security. [...]

]]> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/04/06/national-pork-service/#comment-6686 The news just keeps breaking - Homeland Stupidity Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:14:08 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2006/04/06/national-pork-service/#comment-6686 [...] King of pork Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) might not get to build his bridge to nowhere after all. The House has inserted language into the transportation appropriations bill to prohibit Alaska from spending any money to build the bridge. Now to see if that amendment actually survives… [...] [...] King of pork Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) might not get to build his bridge to nowhere after all. The House has inserted language into the transportation appropriations bill to prohibit Alaska from spending any money to build the bridge. Now to see if that amendment actually survives… [...]

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