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Home Front: Politix

Iraq Funding Add-Ons

2007-05-24

Congress cut just $4 billion in money not requested by President Bush from an Iraq war spending bill. About $17 billion worth remain in add-ons that Bush did not seek. Items include:

-$3 billion above Bush's request for Gulf Coast hurricane recovery.
-$3 billion for disaster farm aid.
-$1.2 [billion] above Bush's request for mine-resistant vehicles
-$1.1 billion for airport, border and cargo container screening.
-$1.1 billion for military housing allowances
-$1.6 billion for military readiness.
-$1.8 billion for veterans health care.
-$949 million for Afghanistan.
-$650 million for low-income children's health care.
-$465 million for fighting wildfires.
-$425 million for rural schools.

What's out:

-$400 million for low-income heating assistance.
-$663 million for pandemic flu preparedness
-$1.2 billion in further homeland security funding

So cut the clear non-military spending, keep the veteran and Afghanistan money, and send it on.

Posted by:Steve White

#2 A pork barrel (or pork barrel politics) describes government spending that is intended to benefit constituents of a politician in return for their political support, either in the form of campaign contributions or votes. The term is thought to have originated on Southern United States plantations, where slaves were allocated the unwanted remainder of slaughtered pigs, or the "pork barrel."
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel.

Posted by: Shieldwolf 2007-05-24 19:14

#1 Wish the politicians weren't so eager to play "pile on" with our tax money. I wish the President had the power of line item veto. I also would like to see "stand alone" bills--get rid of the pork. Where did this concept of "pork" begin?

Posted by: Snearong Tojo2045 2007-05-24 18:20

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