$459 billion military budget approved by Senate Comm. this month = LESS PORK

[L. Coyote]

By my math, this represents over 1,500 $$$ per year for every one of 300 million people in the USA.  
By my math, this represents about 4.20 $$$ per day for each of those 300 million people in the USA.  

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Congressional 'pork' down sharply under new disclosure rules
By Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Sept. 23, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/09/23/congressional_pork_down_sharply_under_new_disclosure_rules/


WASHINGTON - The number and overall cost of congressional pet projects added to the national defense budget are both down sharply, in the first appropriations season since Congress moved to require members to attach their names to so-called earmarks in spending bills.

The $459 billion military budget approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier this month, the largest annual federal spending bill, included 1,006 earmarks, a decrease from the 2,644 contained in last year's bill. If enacted, the earmarks would cost a total of $8.2 billion, down from $10.5 billion last year.

An analysis of other spending bills pending before Congress this fall for expenditures in 2008 shows that the effort to reduce earmarks appears to be working. The number of earmarks in the transportation, housing, and agriculture budgets is down from the last budgets approved under the previous Congress, which was led by Republicans. Democrats had made controlling earmarks a prime focus of their 2006 campaign.

But budget watchdog groups are holding their applause ......