According to the group Citizens Against Government Waste, in their annually published Pig Book, the total for this year ear marked items on the national budget is $17.2 billion spread across 11,610 “pork barrel” projects. Some of these projects include:
- $211,509 for research on olive fruit flies in
- $1,950,000 for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service in New York – earmarked by Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY)
- $3,000,000 in research into shrimp.
- $98,000 to develop a walking tour of
- Go to the website to the CAGW website to read more.
ABCnews presented the earmarking down by the three remaining presidential candidates
- Hilary Clinton with 281 ear marks totaling over $296,000,000
- Baraak Obama with 53 ear marks totaling over $97,000,000
- John McCain has never requested an ear mark.
