And today he released them. Here is John McCain’s Top 10 Porkiest Projects list:
#10. $1.7M “for a honey bee factory” in Weslaco, TX
#9. $475,000 to build a parking garage in Provo City, Utah
#8. $200,000 “tattoo removal violence outreach program to could help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past” REALLY?
#7. $300,000 for the Montana World Trade Center - enough said
#6. $1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah - is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?
#5. $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi”
#4. $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York - quick peel me a grape.
#3. $332,000 for the design and construction of a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas - not enough $ for schools in the stimulus?
#2. $2 million ‘for the promotion of astronomy’ in Hawaii - because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy”
#1. $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa”
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/john-mc...ects-on-twtter
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This bill is about to pass in Congress - 9,000 earmarks.....