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PORK_BAR is a text file extracted from the book: "THE GOVERNMENT
RACKET: Washington Waste From A to Z", by Martin L. Gross, July 1992,
and arranged into categories by Chris Albritton. Entitled, "PORK
BARREL SPENDING: RECENT EXAMPLES BY OUR CONGRESS." The term "pork
barrel" stems back to the early 1800s when the popular meat was packed
that way, and hungry farm hands reached in for slabs of salt pork. In
1879, it was adopted as political slang to mean goodies for the local
district paid for by the taxpayers at large. This file presents you
with an amusing (and dispairing!) look at some of the current "pork
barrel" practices of Congress. Some are justified, but some the
author didn't do his homework on (in my opinion). Some of the latter
are his listings: "$1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to
work." and "$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence."
He calls those absurd, but they really aren't. Believe it or not,
methane from "cow flatulence" is a significant contributor to the
greenhouse effect. Finding out how significant is important. If we
want to encourage energy conservation why not find out why people
don't ride bikes to work? Anyway, I liked the file.