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Only a Pig

Only a Pig Can Call It "Pork Barrel"

What kind of an imbecile calls a highway or road building project pork barrel? I'll have to say that it would be a sow itself with two feet in the trough and six of her own at the teats. I can remember seeing a documentary about the struggle of Ireland during the potato famine. Mention was made of one desperate project to create jobs that involved road making. In the narrative, a statement was made that these people were being forced to build roads going nowhere. But that's just it. One of the problems of the lack of prosperity could have been the lack of connectivity of the roads.

Any road in the country increases your business. Directly or indirectly. The secret seems to be connecting the roads. With the advent of concourse, comes sufficient prosperity to maintain the well-being of the populace.

I remember as a child watching a Porky The Pig cartoon and at one point, there was a sign that read, "Only a pig can bring home the bacon." I must admit I didn't understand it at that time, I was nine years old, and I took it at face value.

When I hear members of Congress and others, such as journalists, complaining about pork barrel projects that involve road making, it makes me cringe. It's the lack of good connected roads that is causing a lot of the problems and poverty for the peoples certain congressman and senators from some of these back state poorer constituencies represent. Most of the prosperity we have been United States today comes from a willingness to invest in roadways during the Eisenhower era.

So when I hear these complaints, I begin to wonder just what kind of piggies those filthy little selfish misers are.

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June 01, 2005