Do Not Trust Cornyn or McConnell on Spending Cuts

Do Not Trust Cornyn or McConnell on Spending Cuts - Exchequer - National Review Online
"As you might guess, those appropriations requests are more densely packed with pork than a can of Spam — Kentucky-fried pork, of course. Seems the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant needs $116 million of your money.
The Forage Animal Production Unit needs $4 million.
The biofuel lobby needs a million dollars to be routed to it through the University of Kentucky.
Hopkinsville has a narcotics taskforce with its hand out.
Raytheon wants $12 million to put lasers on 20mm Gatling guns in Louisville — which at least sounds kind of awesome, but President Obama thinks they can do it with $6 million instead of $12 million.
Somebody wants to buy something called Fern Lake and make a park out of it, but they want you to pay for it — $1.2 million.

No, there’s no tab for “Cutting Spending,” but if you add up all the stuff that Senator McConnell lists under FH2011 Appropriations Requests, you come up with just about $600 million.

That’s a lot of cash — and that’s just the special-interest stuff he’s advertising on his website, not the big-ticket items.

So, let’s do some English-major math here: $600 million in feel-good spending multiplied by 100 U.S. senators equals . . . $60 billion, almost enough to pay for those unemployment benefits Senator McConnell is so keen to fight over — twice."