raghu wrote:
> Bloomberg has a detailed article on how private contractors routinely
> rip off the government for billions. Ironically, the budget-Nazis are
> not wrong about wasteful government spending; they are just being
> penny-wise and pound-foolish in obsessing about entitlements and
> earmarks...

it's more of a class matter. If "pork" helps people of the same class
as our legislators or their financial benefactors, then it's not pork.
If it helps poor and working people, or those fractions of capital
that are less powerful, then it's pork.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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