Holiday Pork
Via Scrappleface, here is an AP report of some of the special interest spending items in the most recent budget. Ughh.
"”Alabama: $4 million for the International Fertilizer Development Center in Muscle Shoals.
"”Alaska: $443,000 to develop salmon-fortified baby food.
Oh, just read them all. Not sure any branch of government needs to do most of these things, but certainly if they need to be done, they should be funded by local taxpayers who get the benefit, not the rest of us.
