You can say when the government spends money on anything that it is pork. Some people think defense spending is pork. Some people think spending money on education is pork. Some people even think tax cuts are a form of pork. Just because you call something pork doesn't mean it is. Any government spending can be labeled as pork. Pork is as much more about how efficiently in terms of the need for that spending in the market and for society the money is being spent than what it is being spent on.
And why would infrastructure spending or something like that be any different? How is that less "pork" than anything else? Its real easy to label something as pork. All you have to do is say the word pork. Does that necessarily mean it is pork? No.
I honestly think halogamer would prefer if the country suffered if it meant that it would mean Republicans would benefit from it. That's a pretty sadistic way of thinking and is the definition of partisan politics.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
