Freeloadin' Dimocrat
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Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:
Porkers of the Month |
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Here's another tidbit Dan Blather won't tell you....
Monday, Feb. 14, 2005 9:24 p.m. EST
Hillary, Schumer Top 'Porkers'
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Monday named New York Sens. Hillary Clinton (D) and Charles Schumer (D) the Co-Porkers of the Month for February for pledging to fight the President's reforms of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.
Sens. Clinton and Schumer lashed out at the President, with Sen. Clinton describing the federal grants as "a lifeline" for New Yorkers.
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Localities have wide latitude in using the grants and Congress does a poor job of tracking where the money gets spent.
Past grants have included $19,000 for Christmas lights, $21,000 for a picnic, and $250,000 for "streetscape improvements." Beneficiaries of CDBGs are often served by other programs at the state, local, for-profit, and non-profit levels.
Politicians have steered CDBGs to theaters, opera houses, and museums in wealthy areas. Last fall, the Buffalo News reported that Buffalo had squandered much of the block grant money it had received over the past 30 years. Far from being an essential tool for combating poverty, CDBGs have become just another budgetary channel for pork and waste.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/2/14/212639.shtml |
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