The recent release of the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) “2004 Pig Book" had me checking out their site. It appears Maryland was able to secure $155,194,000 of the total 9 billion plus in pork, $28.17 per person in MD. How interesting it was to see a Senator from Massachusetts win something:
March 2004 – Porker of the Month - Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.)
Ironically, what Sen. Kennedy doesn’t want taxpayers to know is how much the Democratic plan for providing a drug benefit to seniors would cost—between $800 billion and $1 trillion. For his hypocrisy and duplicity on this issue, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) names Sen. Ted Kennedy as its “Porker of the Month” for March 2004.
In January of this year, he called for the “Health Security and Affordability Act” to be passed that would require all employers to provide health insurance to their workers—a real job killer estimated to cost $100 billion a year to implement.
Incidentally, John Kerry had a lifetime rating from CAGW of 25% (Unfriendly to Taxpayers) and in 2002 had a 13% rating (Hostile to Taxpayers). Of course it’s now 2004, so who knows where the good Senator stands on the issue.
Posted by price at April 8, 2004 02:33 PM