In Case You Missed It

I hate to see waste in our government so I thought was interesting:

In Case You Missed It

"You have Senator Clinton who has roughly $200 million in earmarks. You have Senator Obama, about $97 million in earmarks. Senator McCain, zero. ... He has no earmarks and no money. And this is not atypical of Senator McCain. ... For years and years he has been trying to get rid of these projects. Back in 1998, there was the Vulcan monument in Alabama. $2 million for this project. He went to the floor of the Senate, he fought hard, he tried to get this removed from the appropriations bill. He received 12 votes to get rid of this funding. After he lost the vote, he got up and brushed himself off and moved on to the next project. So he has been fighting this tooth and nail for many years."

- David Williams commenting on the results of Citizens Against Government Waste's Annual "Pig Book" in Bloomberg's "Money And Politics," 4/2/08