Comments on: People Don’t Care (Much) About Pork

By: non-gringo fan

non-gringo fan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:11:07 +0000

India is the largest democracy.

By: AgentX

AgentX — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:33:54 +0000

Pork is, in the mind of conservatives, any money that doesn’t go straight to their pockets.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:21:10 +0000

National Endowment of the Arts, green energy research, etc. = DFHs.

By: Enlightened Liberal

Enlightened Liberal — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:22:39 +0000

Pork is the new con code word for “anything they don’t want”. Pork is any project loaded onto an appropriation bill that benefits only one area. But that is not true of National Endowment of the Arts, green energy research, etc. Those are initiatives that are broad based.

Whenever I hear people complain about “pork”, I show them the new library annex, or the rebuilt highway, or the new community center. Pork is just taxpayer money returned to the taxpayers. Aren’t cons all for that?

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:25:45 +0000

Well exactly. Heard Ingraham babbling about all the supposedly outrageous items in the stimulus – money for the endowment for the arts, green energy research, etc. Literally everything she pointed out, I thought sounded pretty good.

By: MH

MH — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:45:07 +0000

‘Pork’ is their code word for ‘people (who aren’t wealthy) using the government to get what they want.’

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:24:33 +0000

Yesterday somebody (maybe Sadly, No?) had a headline that included an Oscar Wilde quote. Something to the effect of “Vulgarity is simply the behavior of other people.”

I think “pork” works pretty much the same way.