Support for war comes with goodies for lawmaker's districts. Blood money.

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Defense spending bill includes projects for lawmakers' districts

Douglas Feiden

February 26, 2006 3:49 PM
New York Daily News

The Defense Department Appropriations Act of 2006 was designed to oil the American war machine, pay military salaries and buy tanks, drones, destroyers and Hellfire missiles.

But the bill also doled out taxpayer grants to dog mushers in Alaska, environmentalists in Iowa, museum curators in Texas, cranberry farmers in Wisconsin and wild-turkey hunters in the Carolinas.

With no scrutiny, oversight or debate, lawmakers larded the $458 billion spending package with a record-breaking 2,966 pork-barrel projects for their home districts at a cost of $11.1 billion.

full article (with examples): http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=NATIONAL&ID=564688681006661801

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1. Names? Give us names, dammit

Or at least districts, we'll figure the rest out ourselves :mad:

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