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While the “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska is probably the most famous earmark of recent years, Congress’s latest half-trillion-dollar omnibus spending bill set a new record for lawmaker largess—some 9,000 earmarks slipped through with little scrutiny.

By Jackie Kucinich   Published Thursday, January 31, 2008

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I’m no fan of the government wasting tax dollars, but despite the sometimes obscure sounding names, these seem like projects that can help in the long term and that wouldn’t be taken up by private industry. So without funding like this, who is going to solve problems or provide innovation in the absence of promising profits for private businesses?

You probably wouldn’t be very happy living in a world overrun by beavers, flies, rodents, beetles and Mormon crickets while lacking any fruit, honey, asparagus, trout, or peanuts to eat. Well...OK, a world without asparagus might not be so bad.

Posted by: Max Brewer , Jan 31, 2008 08:41:25 PM

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