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Cast your
vote for CAGW’s 2009 Porker of the Year!
Our public officials in Washington spent tax dollars like a bunch of
drunken sailors in 2009, leaving taxpayers with a monstrous $12
trillion national debt hanging over their future. But who truly
stood out as the worst custodian of your hard-earned money last
year?
Cast your
vote for CAGW’s 2009 Porker of the Year!
Chosen by CAGW
staff from among the 2009 Porkers of the Month,
the nominees are:
Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii),
for posing a multiple threat to taxpayers: He ranked first in
earmarks in the House in fiscal year 2009 with 44 projects costing
$256.8 million; routinely abuses an already-stretched defense budget
to reward favored contractors; and has obstinately supported funding
a wasteful and unnecessary alternate engine for the Joint Strike
Fighter over the Pentagon’s objections.
Rep. Russ
Carnahan (D-Mo.),
for grossly
misrepresenting the costs of healthcare reform legislation, which
elicited loud guffaws at a town hall meeting with his constituents
last summer.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.),
for expressing outrage that AIG employee bonuses “rewarded failure,”
while championing the TARP financial bailout and for years defending
the shoddy business practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which
are now in taxpayer conservatorship.
Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), for
requesting 149 pork-barrel projects at a cost to taxpayers of $1.6
billion in authorization and appropriations bills for fiscal year
2010 -- thereby personifying the tiresome hypocrisy of some members
of Congress who want to claim the badge of fiscal conservatism while
continuing to abscond with billions of dollars in wasteful pork
projects.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood,
for presiding over the distribution of tens of billions of tax
dollars for transportation projects in the economic stimulus
package, despite his long-standing reputation as a top porker while
serving in the House of Representatives from 1995 until 2008.
Rep.
Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), for
reminding taxpayers that members of Congress still have not banned
the practice of naming projects after themselves after she provoked
a tussle with House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.)
over her intention to build a "Monument to Me" by obtaining an
earmark for the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.
CNBC
promoted
our 2009 Porker of the Year poll on Monday, January 11, and the
network plans to broadcast the results in early February, so
cast your
vote by January 31 to
help CAGW decide who will receive the “dishonor” of being named 2009
Porker of the Year!
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