Pork out of control

Good news, taxpayers. The very enlightening and entertaining 2008 Congressional Pig Book (pdf) has been released. Compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the book outlines each appropriations bill and lists the pork-barrel projects included in the bills. It's well worth your time to read. Thankfully, CAGW did the math for us, identifying 11,610 projects at a cost of $17.2 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for the 2008 fiscal year. That's a lot of pork and yet liberals believe that government can solve our problems.