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This plan isn't economic. Even its proponents have largely given up on the absurd fiction that canceling America's meager $620 million worth of cultural programs will do anything to reduce the present budget deficit of $180 billion. Not when a Senate committee last month approved a pork load for the military of $7 billion more than the Pentagon asked...
...PORK MARCHES...
When will people learn that politicians are in Washington for their own benefit and will do anything to keep their jobs? The party in control just changes who gets the pork, not how much pork is handed out [CONGRESS, July 17]. Why is it going to take seven to 10 years to balance the budget? Because politicians are afraid that if they cut the budget too deeply, they will lose votes and possibly their jobs and salaries. So the pork will march on in Washington, whether led by Democrats, Republicans or others. KEVIN FORSBERG Chandler, Arizona Via E-mail...
...Arizona Senator John McCain and his aide Mark Buse, the antipork specialist who ferrets out "ridiculous spending projects," a 21-gun salute for blocking pork-barrel appropriations. ROBERT G. ROWE Denver...
...airless fourth-floor room he lived in, a 40-minute walk from his station, its only comfort a tattered collection of pictures from home, crudely taped to the wall nearest the worn mattress of his bed. We never saw the hot stove, topped by empty cans of Campbell's pork and beans...