Cheer up Lama. Although "pork barrel politics" was coined in the US,
it happens all over the world - including in the axis of evil ;-)
Chris
On 3 Jan 2004 , at 22:37, Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
Speaking of naval museums, our beloved Federal Government is moving a
nuclear submarine to a new (planned) museum in Cincinnati.
Unfortunately we don't have money to improve education but we *DO*
have money to remove the nuclear reactor from inside a submarine
(which was not designed to have it removed- DUH!), then transport the
huge vessel across the Rocky Mountains and more than a dozen
states.
School kids in 2015 may not be able to do algebra but they will be
able to tell they're penniless ancestors that they once toured a
nuclear submarine.
The new museum will be within sight of our new 4-lane bridge that our
beloved Federal government built, despite the Federal experts
who said no such bridge was warranted. It replaced a 2 lane bridge
that saw almost no traffic. We don't have the money to replace
the fatal 8-lane Interstate bridge that's within sight of the 4 lane
bridge but at least "we got something".
We call this pork-barrel politics in the US.
All the best,
Lama
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