http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51675,00.html Pols Roasted Over Pet Pork By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. April 10, 2002 PDT The spendthrifts in Congress are sending PCs to Armenia, flying Russian politicos to Colorado's Coors Brewery, and paying for "pony trekking centers" in Ireland. Advanced "asparagus technology" in Washington state gets $260,000, while a fat $3 million goes to promote "private sector technology start-ups" in Georgia -- not the state, but the ex-Soviet republic. It's time for the annual roundup of profligate pork spending, published each spring by Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Technology programs of dubious necessity have larded up the most recent round of federal spending, the group says, with politicians vying to route dollars to their home states by pitching them as ways to launch Internet firms or to bridge the so-called digital divide. [...] The "Pig Book" itself: http://www.cagw.org/site/FrameSet?style=User&url=http://publications.cagw.org/PigBook2002/introduction.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
