East TN Conservative

 The Pork Report exposes $260 million in waste, fraud and abuse of
tax dollars and offers enough examples to make any Tennessee taxpayer
cringe, including:

-- $6.5 million for boll weevil eradication - even though the
pests no longer threaten Tennessee's cotton crops;

Compare your budget
Paying 600$ to remove a mouse you might have in your house?

-- $1.7 million to fund a ferry service used by an average of 23
people per day;

Compare your budget
paying $100 a week for your neighbor to pick up your kid 
to play at their house across the street.

-- $1.4 million to subsidize failing state-owned golf;

-- $420,000 for electric motors that were never delivered to 
Memphis schools;

Compare your budget<
Paying $40 for a piece of candy for your wife and never gave it to her. 

-- $200,000 in subsidies for fairs and livestock shows;

-- $27,620 to support a film festival that screened "Goodnight
Vagina" and "The Teat Beat of Sex;" and

-- $14,436 to replace dimmer switches in the Governor's Mansion
with fancier brass models.


Info from Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR)

Please post your own comparisons.