As we near the end of 2009, another decade of wasteful pork barrel, earmark spending of your money by your U.S. Congress cha-chings to a $208 billion end. Fittingly enough, the decade ended with taxpayers benevolently watching Congress spend $1.8 million for a research conducted in Ames, Iowa to determine why pigs stink. Well, something stinks, and you can read a rundown of the best of the worst in The Decade in Pork.
Also See:
What is Earmark Spending?
Congress to Attack Earmark Spending (2006)
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