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Friday, April 09, 2004
Pork-O-Barrel Mateship: World Citizens Against Public Waste
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) document a record-breaking $22.9 billion spent on 10,656 pork-barrel projects. The 630 projects profiled in the Pig Book Summary will cost taxpayers more than $3.1 billion this year.
· Search the Pig Book [link first seen at News Knife]
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· See Also The security contractors killed in Fallujah represented a little known reality of the war in Iraq
· See Also Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has faced a steady exodus of counterterrorism officials, many disappointed by a preoccupation with Iraq they said undermined the U.S. fight against terrorism
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