Teapot Museum Gets $500,000 More
Last year, Democrat leaders in the General Assembly put $400,000 in the budget to give to the Sparta Teapot Museum.
Earlier the foundation they (Mike Easley, Mark Basnight and Jim Black) appointed to give out the tobacco settlement money gave the Museum $590,000.
Now Congress has given the Teapot Museum another $500,000.
In fact, Congress budget includes $29 billion in ‘pork barrel’ giveaways – which is more than the entire North Carolina State Budget. This time the biggest offender is a Republican – Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska.
Politics runs off money. Republicans and Democrats in Washington are fighting over the Abramoff scandal, the DeLay scandal, and funding of ‘527’ groups. We’ve seen our own bevy of scandals – including Democratic House Speaker Jim Black – here in North Carolina.
But the politicians in Washington spending $29 billion for pork barrel projects to ‘win friends and influence people’ and get reelected tops them all.
Teapot Museum Gets $500,000 More
Last year, Democrat leaders in the General Assembly put $400,000 in the budget to give to the Sparta Teapot Museum.
Earlier the foundation they (Mike Easley, Mark Basnight and Jim Black) appointed to give out the tobacco settlement money gave the Museum $590,000.
Now Congress has given the Teapot Museum another $500,000.
In fact, Congress budget includes $29 billion in ‘pork barrel’ giveaways – which is more than the entire North Carolina State Budget. This time the biggest offender is a Republican – Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska.
Politics runs off money. Republicans and Democrats in Washington are fighting over the Abramoff scandal, the DeLay scandal, and funding of ‘527’ groups. We’ve seen our own bevy of scandals – including Democratic House Speaker Jim Black – here in North Carolina.
But the politicians in Washington spending $29 billion for pork barrel projects to ‘win friends and influence people’ and get reelected tops them all.