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Show X X fc ! V RIGHT PATTERSON 'Porkers' Spend Millions IS : ' I7EDERAL "pork" expenditures I , i " represent projects which have y ! .j. j only a partisan political patronage I :, . value. They represent the ability of I-1 j the senator or representative to ! J bring home the bacon for his state I or his district. They buy votes. Such I I j ; expense items are found in every budget and appropriation bill passed by congress. No single item calls 1 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. |