Region eats well from pork barrel

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/11/23/loc_ohpork23.html

WASHINGTON - Welcome to new Porkopolis.

Greater Cincinnati's congressional delegation added more than $150 million for local projects to this year's federal budget - pork to critics, but delicious to those receiving it.

Examples:

• A Northern Kentucky company is getting $1.5 million, courtesy of Sen. Mitch McConnell.

• The Mill Creek is getting a speeded up Army Corps of Engineers study and $3.9 million to do it, courtesy of Reps. Rob Portman and Steve Chabot.

• Newport is getting a submarine, thanks to Sen. Jim Bunning.

• Vine Street will be spruced up near the Cincinnati Zoo, and The Banks project along Cincinnati's Ohio River shoreline is getting $3.5 million for a new garage, courtesy of Sen. Mike DeWine.

The money, to be delivered over the next year, is coming from earmarks, a line or paragraph a member of Congress adds to a spending bill.
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A worthwhile article to read. Further info though the link.

[Paul Hood]

1. The blessings of being a swing state/ region.

[saigon68]

2. oink

Oink-- Oink --Swilling at the Public Trough

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. piggykick

[4dsc]

4. How to get your own earmark-start now!!!

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/11/23/loc_ohporkhow23.html

I hope you read this too.. What can I do to get in on the pork??

Want a piece of the $2.3 trillion budget? Here are some tips on getting your own earmarks in next year's budget:

Start now

The 2005 fiscal year doesn't start until Oct. 1, 2004, but groups that want money in that budget already are working.

Rep. Rob Portman was in Brown County this month meeting with health care officials who are seeking federal money.

"We're already planning for next year," he said, even though the fiscal 2004 budget isn't finished.

Fill out the form

Sen. Mike DeWine, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee - the committee that writes spending bills - has a standard questionnaire he makes everyone fill out explaining what the money would be used for, what the total project costs are, what its national or local significance is, and where the other money is coming from.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. I wish I hadn't read it. It was like stopping to look at an accident

where you know there are injuries.

[pasadenaboy]

5. that's our borrow and spend republicans

Democrats will pay for what they buy. The repubs keep running up the credit cards.