Georgia Congressmen Pig Out At The Taxpayer Trough The Most Ridiculous Local Pork Barrel Projects of 2001

Georgia Congressmen "bring home the bacon" with the most ridiculous pork barrel spending projects of 2001.

Libertarian Party of Georgia
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Jason Butler, Political Director
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Georgia Congressmen Pig Out At The Taxpayer Trough

The Most Ridiculous Local Pork Barrel Projects of 2001

September 4, 2001 (Atlanta) – As the Congress of the United States reconvenes this week to hash out the final appropriations bills for next year, the Libertarian Party of Georgia would like to remind Georgians of the spendthrift ways of our own representatives. While Georgia Congressmen have gone hog wild" in their efforts to bring home the bacon" this year, many of these projects reek of wasteful pork barrel spending.

Republicans and Democrats are doing all they can to spend every last dime in the Treasury," said Jason Butler, Political Director for the Libertarian Party of Georgia. Taxpayers havent got a fighting chance as long as the greedy Congressmen are in session."

Here are the most ridiculous local pork projects of 2001 -- courtesy of the federal government, Georgia Congressmen, and your wallet :

·$250,000 to develop pungency-testing procedures to improve the quality and sensory consistency of Vidalia onions

·$400,000 for the National Center for Peanut Competitiveness

·$400,000 for a water taxi service in Savannah

·$779,000 for a visitors center on Cumberland Island

·$430,000 for development and expansion of the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins

·$430,000 for renovation of the Coach George E. Ford Cultural Arts Center in Powder Springs

·$285,000 to study safe vegetable production

·$100,000 to study Poult-Enterititis Mortality Syndrome, a chicken ailment

Party lines disappear when it comes to pork spending," stated Butler. Its a bipartisan effort to separate taxpayers from their hard-earned money."