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Most members agree "the hot and sour soup will blow your brains our," and the exotic orange flavored rice is a good alternative to the usual pork-fried version...
...fact, 1992 could have been titled "Pinocchio Runs for Re-election." Bush pledged to cut government spending, yet he spent each campaign appearance tossing out pork barrel projects as if he were Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. He debased himself at the feet of his ex-Secretary of State, pledging to keep Jim Baker at the State Department, but then promising to appoint him Domestic Policy Czar and later Chief of Staff. Heck, to win the Catholic vote, Bush would have appointed Baker pope, but the job was already filled...
...President used a different technique with Senator Richard Shelby. White House officials were furious when the conservative Alabama Democrat criticized the Clinton program's lack of cuts in a meeting chaired by Vice President Al Gore on Feb. 18 -- even though one of Shelby's most treasured pork projects, the $31 billion space station -- was left virtually untouched by Clinton's budget trimmers. "Inexcusable," said a steamed Clinton strategist. Two weeks ago, the empire struck back, shifting from Alabama to Texas a 90-person space- shuttle management team long protected by Shelby. Five days later, Shelby quietly joined 55 other...
...call a new tax on Social Security benefits a spending cut was too sneaky by half. "Just call a spade a spade," said Perot. "It's not a savings, it's a tax." Similarly, the President denounced government waste last week, but he is not above rolling the pork barrel himself. He found $500 million for displaced defense workers during a recent trip to Southern California. His vow to create a network of more than 100 "manufacturing extension centers" seems smart only if he intends to take credit for killing it later...
...mandate two years of Head Start for those most in need but also award schoolchildren in the lower grades a larger chunk of the $6 billion annually authorized under Chapter 1, the nation's primary source of federal funds for education. Those dollars are currently spread thinly in a pork-barrel scheme that reaches 90% of all congressional districts -- the price for the political support required to keep Chapter 1 alive. "Unless you conceive of Head Start and Chapter 1 together and target the money at the most disadvantaged," says Zigler, "we'll never have the good effects we know...