The Pig Book
The Pig Book

Author: Citizens Against Government Waste

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 146685314X

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The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!

Directory of Non-Federal Statistics for States and Local Areas
Directory of Non-Federal Statistics for States and Local Areas

Author: United States. Bureau of the Census

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13:

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Directory to current state and local level statistical services in the USA for the fields of population, health, welfare, local government and the state economy - includes such areas as education, demographic data, employment, banking, insurance, public finance, commerce, infrastructure, agriculture, police and law enforcement, etc.

International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration Volume 1
International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration Volume 1

Author: Jay Shafritz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 1467

ISBN-13: 0429724004

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This is the first volume of a four-volume encyclopaedia which combines public administration and policy and contains approximately 900 articles by over 300 specialists. This Volume covers entries from A to C. It covers all of the core concepts, terms and processes of applied behavioural science, budgeting, comparative public administration, develo

Utah Politics and Government
Utah Politics and Government

Author: Adam R. Brown

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-08-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1496201809

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"Utah Politics and Government covers Utah's religious heritage and territorial history, its central political institutions, and its political culture, while situating Utah within the broader American political setting"--

Fiscal Challenges
Fiscal Challenges

Author: Elizabeth Garrett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-01-07

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1139468448

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Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to explore the problems of budget policy. The authors, including top economists, political scientists, historians, psychologists, and legal scholars, together provide a unique, multidisciplinary introduction to the subject. In addition to in-depth analysis of congressional budget procedures and the economics of federal deficits and debt, Fiscal Challenges explores important recent developments in budget policy at the state level and in the European Union. The goal of the volume is to offer readers wide-ranging perspectives on the many different academic disciplines and perspectives that bear on the evaluation of budgetary procedures and their reform.