A Bunch of Oinkers: CAGW Releases Annual Pig Book That Depressingly Details The Worst Of Government Waste

Matt Vespa | Apr 13, 2016

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released their annual pig book this morning, and it’s quite depressing. The non-profit added that the average dollar amount for earmarks for fiscal year 2016 was a whopping $36.6 million compared to the FY2010 average of $1.1 million. In all, there were 123 earmarks for FY 2016, a 17.1 percent increase from FY 2015, which saw 105 instances of porker spending. Total porker spending topped $5.1 billion this year, a 21.4 percent increase from last year’s total of $4.2 billon. CAGW lists seven ways government spending can make their porker book; all items featured this year satisfy at least one of the criteria, though they noted that most meet two. A lot of the top items rest in the Department of Defense:.....To Read More