Bingham Bulletin | 1948-03-19 | Page 2 | 'Porkers' Spend Millions |

Type	issue
Date	1948-03-19
Paper	Bingham Bulletin
Language	eng
City	Bingham Canyon
County	Salt Lake
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	'Porkers' Spend Millions
Type	article
Date	1948-03-19
Paper	Bingham Bulletin
Language	eng
City	Bingham Canyon
County	Salt Lake
Page	2
OCR Text	Show K n K WRIGHT PATTERSON 'Porkers1 Spend Millions FEDERAL "pork" expenditures represent projects which have only partisan political patronage value. They represent the ability of the senator or representative to bring home the bacon for his state or his district. They buy votes. Such expense items are found in every budget and appropriation bill passed by congress. No single Item calls for the expenditure of billions of dollars but many of them call for millions. Summed up, the total represents rep-resents a considerable sum of money gleaned from the taxpayers' pockets.
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