{"id":508,"date":"2005-10-23T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=508"},"modified":"2005-10-23T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T12:15:19","slug":"chief-porkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Chief Porkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthlaidbear.com\/porkbusters.php\" target=\"_blank\">PorkBusters<\/a> website contains a lot of helpful info on wasteful spending by the Federal government, and one of their pages <a href=\"http:\/\/truthlaidbear.com\/porkbystate.php\" target=\"_blank\">breaks the taxpayer-funded lard down by state<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve all read about the &#8220;bridge to nowhere in Alaska&#8221;, but there are 8 states ahead of them in wasteful Federal spending.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the breakdown, including names and party affiliations of their Senators, the latter included as a 911 for Libertarian government:<br \/>\n$848,500,000 \tAlaska (Stevens(R),Murkowski(R))<br \/>\n$1,037,275,002 \tKansas (Brownback(R),Roberts(R))<br \/>\n$1,070,441,264 \tNew York (Schumer(D),Clinton(D))<br \/>\n$1,772,299,750 \tCalifornia (Feinstein(D),Boxer(D))<br \/>\n$2,236,043,647 \tGeorgia (Chambliss(R),Isakson(R))<br \/>\n$2,355,823,672 \tMissouri (Bond(R),Talent(R))<br \/>\n$2,450,554,485 \tTexas (Huchinson(R),Cornyn(R))<br \/>\n$2,782,919,295 \tIllinois (Durbin(D),Obama(D))<br \/>\nand the winner is:<br \/>\n$2,832,818,647 \tNorth Carolina (Dole(R),Burr(R))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PorkBusters website contains a lot of helpful info on wasteful spending by the Federal government, and one of their pages breaks the taxpayer-funded lard down by state. We&#8217;ve all read about the &#8220;bridge to nowhere in Alaska&#8221;, but there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=508\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}