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July 31, 2016 10:00am by David Farrar

An annual pork report

Good reading is the annual Tennessee pork report. That’s bad pork, not good pork.

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kowtow

“The National Organization of Black Elected
Legislative Women (NOBEL) is clearly an exclusive
club”

Racism . but it’s OK when non whites do it.
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July 31, 2016 10:09am
Maggy Wassilieff

Gee, I wish Penny wrote up her voluminous polemics in the “Pork” style….I’d read every word.

p.s. I think I’ll put in for the Tennessee Travel writers’ fund….. you other folks can wait ’til next year.
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July 31, 2016 10:24am
Southern Raider

Has anyone done some calculations for NZ of what taxpayers and ratepayers would get in the pocket if all wasteful Govt and Council spending was cut out?

Could actually solve poverty overnight since all the people employed to administer these schemes or get the grants are typically well paid
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July 31, 2016 10:33am
Don the Kiwi

Ah yes…..the “Pork Barrel Politics”

NZ is rife with it as well – not so bad as under Heilen Klarken though.
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July 31, 2016 11:14am
Viking2

Don the Kiwi (2,639 comments) says:
July 31st, 2016 at 11:14 am

Ah yes…..the “Pork Barrel Politics”

NZ is rife with it as well – not so bad as under Heilen Klarken though.
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Only a dead in the head Nat supporter would believe that.
National have cut nothing that Klark did but have increased the handouts and especially the handouts to the corporates and local bodies.
Worse they are now planning to give the LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION power to strip the rate payers of their assets in the name of corporate efficiency.
They have conned the ex Minister of Prisons into pushing this upon us.

No one except the breweries and corporates and the Local Government Commission have asked for this. This govt. has no mandate at all to do this.

Arrogance in the extreme.

Borrow and hope Government.

But it’s NZ the way you want it.

Perks for the corporates.
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July 31, 2016 11:53am
stephieboy

Just who is Beacon ? Find out more here and especially it’s affiliate State Policy network ,

“Conservative groups across the US are planning a co-ordinated assault against public sector rights and services in the key areas of education, healthcare, income tax, workers’ compensation and the environment, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.

The strategy for the state-level organisations, which describe themselves as “free-market thinktanks”, includes proposals from six different states for cuts in public sector pensions, campaigns to reduce the wages of government workers and eliminate income taxes, school voucher schemes to counter public education, opposition to Medicaid, and a campaign against regional efforts to combat greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change…”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/05/state-conservative-groups-assault-education-health-tax

I wonder if Trump supports the SPN ?
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July 31, 2016 12:20pm
cmm

@Don the Kiwi:

“NZ is rife with it as well”

While NZ certainly has many inefficiencies, our political structure make us immune to USA’s particular brand of pork barreling.

US-flavour pork barreling is due to having congress which is the body that gives states oversight over federal (national) spending. We don’t have the equivalent of congress because we don’t have states.

This means congress people block certain federal spending unless their state gets some benefit.

That is why the F35 project is being built in 47 different states. Just about every state demanded a slice of the pie before giving the project the thumbs up.
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July 31, 2016 1:04pm
fylde

Funny how they pick on a group of black women. The concept of the pork report is good but they undermine it by picking on a group who represented a persecuted group. Racial incitement at its worst
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