Pork Overview
The Club for Growth Blog has done us regular taxpayers a huge favor by listing the full vote tally of each and every worker in the Lower Chamber of the Great Sausage Factory on the 19 'Flake Amendments', which were an ever so modest attempt to rein in the profligate and wasteful spending of our hard-earned wages that goes on in that august (cough) body.
I've crunched a few numbers at the state level and here are some high level results:
Top 10 Anti-Pork States (measured by anti-pork votes per LCoGSF worker)
1. New Hampshire
2. Colorado
3. Wisconsin
4. Arizona
5. Idaho
6. Utah
7. Tennessee
8. Minnesota
9. Nevada
10. Georgia
Top 10 States Where Republicans Vote Like Republicans (anti-pork votes per Rep. LCoGSF worker)
1. Wisconsin - Cheeseheads, not porkheads
2. New Hampshire - "Live Free of Pork or Die!"
3. Tennessee - volunteering to forego your tax dollars
4. Colorado
5. Minnesota
6. Utah
7. Georgia
8. Arizona
9. Nevada
10. South Carolina
Top 10 RINO Breeding Grounds* (fewest votes per Rep. LCoGSF worker)
1. Connecticut
2. Virginia - "Virginia is for Lovers...of Government Pork!"
3. Michigan
4. Alabama - "Roll Tide...of Pork!"
5. Pennsylvania
6. Missouri - let's rename it the "Show Me the Federal Dollars" State!
7. Kansas - What IS wrong with Kansas that they need to suckle at the government teet so?
8. Washington
9. New York
10. Ohio
* had to have more than 1 rep. to qualify (one rep. RINO breeding grounds are Alaska, Montana, West Virginia, and Arkansas)
The average Republican voted against pork 5.1 times on the 19 anti-pork Flake Amendments. The states whose Democratic delegation beat the Republican average: Utah (14) and Tennessee (7.4).
Top 10, I Mean 4, Democrats Who Hate Pork More Than the Average Republican:
1. Bean (IL-8) - 19/19
Cooper (TN-5) - 19/19
2. Matheson (UT-2) - 14/19
3. Ford (TN-9) - 13/19
The average Democrat voted against pork 0.55 times on the 19 Flake Amendments. The one state whose Republican delegation did not beat the Democratic average: Connecticut (0.2).
Top 10, I Mean 112, Republicans Who Love Pork More Than the Average Democrat:
Are you crazy, I am not going to list 112 names here, but all went 0/19. All 112 may not truly love pork, but they either think 1) you don't care, 2) you're too stupid to figure it out, or 3) you do care and you are not too stupid, but they don't care what you think.
Random Dishonorable RINO Mention: My high school buddy, Mike Ferguson (NJ-7) who loves pork (3/19) more than Barney Frank (5/19)!
I've crunched a few numbers at the state level and here are some high level results:
Top 10 Anti-Pork States (measured by anti-pork votes per LCoGSF worker)
1. New Hampshire
2. Colorado
3. Wisconsin
4. Arizona
5. Idaho
6. Utah
7. Tennessee
8. Minnesota
9. Nevada
10. Georgia
Top 10 States Where Republicans Vote Like Republicans (anti-pork votes per Rep. LCoGSF worker)
1. Wisconsin - Cheeseheads, not porkheads
2. New Hampshire - "Live Free of Pork or Die!"
3. Tennessee - volunteering to forego your tax dollars
4. Colorado
5. Minnesota
6. Utah
7. Georgia
8. Arizona
9. Nevada
10. South Carolina
Top 10 RINO Breeding Grounds* (fewest votes per Rep. LCoGSF worker)
1. Connecticut
2. Virginia - "Virginia is for Lovers...of Government Pork!"
3. Michigan
4. Alabama - "Roll Tide...of Pork!"
5. Pennsylvania
6. Missouri - let's rename it the "Show Me the Federal Dollars" State!
7. Kansas - What IS wrong with Kansas that they need to suckle at the government teet so?
8. Washington
9. New York
10. Ohio
* had to have more than 1 rep. to qualify (one rep. RINO breeding grounds are Alaska, Montana, West Virginia, and Arkansas)
The average Republican voted against pork 5.1 times on the 19 anti-pork Flake Amendments. The states whose Democratic delegation beat the Republican average: Utah (14) and Tennessee (7.4).
Top 10, I Mean 4, Democrats Who Hate Pork More Than the Average Republican:
1. Bean (IL-8) - 19/19
Cooper (TN-5) - 19/19
2. Matheson (UT-2) - 14/19
3. Ford (TN-9) - 13/19
The average Democrat voted against pork 0.55 times on the 19 Flake Amendments. The one state whose Republican delegation did not beat the Democratic average: Connecticut (0.2).
Top 10, I Mean 112, Republicans Who Love Pork More Than the Average Democrat:
Are you crazy, I am not going to list 112 names here, but all went 0/19. All 112 may not truly love pork, but they either think 1) you don't care, 2) you're too stupid to figure it out, or 3) you do care and you are not too stupid, but they don't care what you think.
Random Dishonorable RINO Mention: My high school buddy, Mike Ferguson (NJ-7) who loves pork (3/19) more than Barney Frank (5/19)!
posted by Donny Baseball at 4:51 PM
3 Comments:
What's wrong with pork? Is pork the driver of our national debt and budget deficit? If not, then why pay so much attention to pork? why not focus on the real issues?
It is indeed one of the drivers of our debt and deficit. Not the biggest but definitely meaningful. It is a drag on the efficiency of the economy, a barrier to lower taxes and thus lowers our standard of living in the long run. It reduces our capacity to focus on the "real issues." And most of it is unconstitutional, or is that too quaint a notion?
I thought pork is only 0.5% of the annual budget. How could 0.5% drive the deficit and national debt?
Don't get me wrong, I hate pork too, but I see it as a necessary evil, and something that we just have to live with, as long as it's is relatively small.
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