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[vicarz]

Shut up about pork and earmarks! Seriously, shut up! Not all projects are the bridge to nowhere a small town in AK.

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/what_percentage_of_the_national_spending_is.html
Earmarks up through 2006 were less than 1% of the budget

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/m012606.pdf
2006 analysis of earmarks per Agency

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/hjackson/Earmarks_16.pdf
Last updated 2006, but they found while the total # of earmarks rose dramatically, so too did the value of each fall. Their study found earmarks made up <2% up through 2005.

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[eac.livejournal.com]

Really, the damned war in Iraq is that biggest pork barrel project of them all.