It Jack! Murtha’s 48 earmarks amount to a total of $150.5 million, according to a database compiled by the watchdog organization Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS). This is criminal!

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10 Responses to “Wild guess: Which congressman has the most pork in the defense spending bill?”

1. BonBon
   August 3, 2007 - 06:01 AM on August 3rd, 2007

   So maybe nows the time for someone to issue a sepeona and search his files. Pork, pork, pork anyone with maybe a little corruption thrown in?

2. snowy egret
   August 3, 2007 - 08:32 AM on August 3rd, 2007

   John Murtha the new demacratic prize porker oinking his way to porkdom

3. Robert
   August 3, 2007 - 11:17 AM on August 3rd, 2007

   We need investigations, a special prosecutor, subpoenas!!! The Democrites ove them so much, surely they would agree!

   Seriously, when is this pos crook/traitor going to be expelled from Congress like the malignancy he is? And to think the voting idiots of his District reelected him! The fools had a chance to dump him, but they wanted more of the same.

4. BonBon
   August 3, 2007 - 12:04 PM on August 3rd, 2007

   Happy Friday Robert

   One thing I absolutely couldn’t understand in the 2006 election was how this guy got back in. He’s gross, not in any way charming so he couldn’t have charmed his way to votes. His record is appalling and his outspoken rhetoric is disgusting. Go figure!

   btw….I like this one….

5. snowy egret
   August 5, 2007 - 07:11 PM on August 5th, 2007

   John Murthas new words OINK OINK

6. FrmrArtyOffcr
   August 5, 2007 - 07:18 PM on August 5th, 2007

   Murtha got reelected the same way that EVERY dem gets elected in that part of PA. The unions. His district contains large areas that are or were almost entirely populated by union members. As long as the unions keep telling their uneducated members to vote Dem, they will. And as long as the Dems keep slipping the corrupt union bosses cash under the table and sweetheart construction deals, the union bosses (and related mafia bosses) will keep telling the membership to vote Dem. His district either contains or is adjacent to the district wherein the front runner for the United Mine Workers of America presidency was shotgun murdered with his family. A murder that resulted in Tony Boyle gaining the presidency of the UMWA. At least until he was indicted and convicted of contracting for the murders through his mafia contacts. I think he was president of the union for 7 or 8 years. He went through his reelection unopposed. Yes I grew up in the area and Dad was in the union. BTW his district is close if not adjacent to the 18th congressional district in Ohio where the Republican Representative Bob Ney was convicted of corruption. Ney replaced the former Democratic Representative Wayne L. Hayes who was thrown out of Congress for having a secretary on the payroll who didn’t type or file, but was good enough at taking dicktation that she was also a paid member of another Congressman’s staff as well. I guess you could say she was working hard on the staves of two congressmen. LOL

7. Philadelphia Steve
   October 30, 2007 - 10:45 AM on October 30th, 2007

   The selective memory of Conservatives is amazing.
   Had President George W. Bush, the man Conservatives beleive is the gratest president every, in the mold of Abraham Lincoln, vetoes even ONE spending bill from theRepublican Congress, I might accept this as anything other than Republican political posturing.

   Tell your friend Trent Lott about “saving” money. Mississippi gets far more money, per capita, from the Federal government than they send in taxes, as do most other “self-reliant” Republican states. Pennsylvania is a net “donor” of money to the Feds.

   But that is, of course, DIFFERENT. Isn;t it?

   http://www.ncpa.org/ea/eand94/eand94h.html

8. PCD
   October 30, 2007 - 11:47 AM on October 30th, 2007

   7, Philthydelphia Steve, no, go back to your Democrat seminar and tell them that the trolls they train are ineffective. We can spot you liars a mile off.

9. Pam
   October 30, 2007 - 12:32 PM on October 30th, 2007

   Many states in the Northeast and the Middle West pay more in Federal taxes than they receive in Federal spending, while many Southern states are subsidized by the Federal Government, a new study shows.

   Connecticut and New Jersey were the biggest ”donor states” last year, and New York has consistently been among the large donors.

   New Mexico, Virginia and Mississippi had the biggest surpluses, receiving far more in Federal outlays than they paid in Federal taxes.

   The study, by researchers at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, said that Connecticut’s tax payments to the Federal Government exceeded Federal spending in the state by an average of $2,099 for each resident last year. New Jersey had a deficit averaging $1,883 for each of its residents, while New York had an average deficit of $978 for each resident.

   The report, issued by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, concludes that ”the Federal Government is a major force in the geographic distribution of economic activity,” though sometimes in ways that were not foreseen or intended.

   The study measures the ”balance of payments” for each state, defined as the difference between the Federal spending it receives and the taxes it pays.

   Mr. Moynihan did the first such study 20 years ago to support his contention that New York had, in some ways, been treated unfairly. Since 1992, the body of the report has been prepared by Harvard researchers. The authors this year were Monica E. Friar, Herman B. Leonard and Jay H. Walder.

   The latest study examines the flow of Federal money to and from all states and disavows any premise that states should get back precisely as much as they pay to the Federal Government. Indeed, the authors said, some redistribution of resources is inherent in the concept of America as a union of states in which people and commerce move freely across state borders.

   The report made these points:

   *”New Jersey, with high per capita incomes and Federal tax payments, receives relatively little in the way of Federal expenditures.” The state is not a major center of military spending and, with a comparatively low poverty rate, gets a small share of Federal welfare spending.

   *With income levels far exceeding the national average, ”Connecticut residents consistently lead the nation in Federal taxes paid” per capita. ”As a result, Connecticut contributes far more in taxes than it receives back in Federal spending.”

   *In the last decade, four New England states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont) and three Western states (California, Hawaii and Washington) experienced significant changes for the worse in their balance of payments with the Federal Government.

   *New York regularly ranks among the top states in Federal tax payments, ”a direct result of high per capita income.” But it is consistently below the national average in the amount of Federal spending it receives for each resident.

   Speaker Newt Gingrich said last year that New York could not expect the Federal Government to subsidize its ”culture of waste.” But Mr. Moynihan said the new data showed that things were really the other way around: New York has been subsidizing Georgia and other Southern states for years.

   Southern and Sunbelt states have a different perspective. Elizabeth G. Schneider, executive director of the Southern Governors’ Association, said it was natural that the South should get a large portion of Federal spending because many Americans were choosing to retire there. In addition, she said, the region has a higher poverty rate than the rest of the country and has many military bases.

   Debby K. Kilmer, director of the Washington office for the State of Florida, said that Southern states generally paid more in gasoline taxes than they received in Federal money for construction of highways. With the South and the West growing faster than Northeastern states, she said, it is proper that ”dollars should follow the people.”

   The study finds that military spending, though cut in recent years, remains an important factor in determining the balance of payments for many states. Federal benefit programs have become more important, but payments to the elderly, not the poor, account for the bulk of this spending.

   The net influx of Federal money accounted for more than 10 percent of per capita income in New Mexico, Mississippi and Virginia, the study said. Virginia, home to the Pentagon and many naval installations, attracted large amounts of military spending. New Mexico’s nuclear weapons industries also attracted large sums of Federal money. Mississippi had a large surplus because, with low incomes and a high poverty rate, it generates a relatively small amount of taxes and receives large amounts of Federal aid.

   Mr. Moynihan said, ”New York does very well in a category of Federal spending that might best be described as disaster relief,” which includes Medicaid and welfare payments for the poor. But he said the state had made ”the worst possible use” of the money it has received for job programs, sending welfare recipients to school rather than to work.

   source

   So it appears that this has been going on since at least 1996. It also appears that you are mistakingly comparing pork spending with federal assistance.

   More articles on the subject

10. PCD
    October 30, 2007 - 12:38 PM on October 30th, 2007

    Pam, comments aren’t being posted on the Murtha thread.

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