Editorial: Roll out the barrel

Budget doesn't do much to trim pork

SOURCE: Editorial Staff // Colorado Springs Gazette

31 Dec 2007 // One of the reasons -- although probably a minor one compared with the Iraq war -- the Democrats took control of Congress in the elections last year was the proliferation of earmarks, those personalized spending projects tailored for specific congressional districts that are thrown in at the last minute, without having been requested in the president's budget and without congressional hearings to p More»