Got pork?

Where will the Katrina billions come from? Pork chops. Porkbusters is looking to chop pork from state budgets, to pay Katrina's bills. Tell Porkbusters about government waste in your state. (Alaskans can submit twice.) The 'net wants to put pressure on states to cut Federal projects so we can rebuild New Orleans without destroying everything else in the process.

Investors Business Daily was the first suggestion of this idea we've seen. We thought it might never be implemented. We'd love to be wrong on this.

We all know that when we suddenly need a new roof, we cut somewhere else to pay for it. Let's send some common sense to our elected leaders.

PORKWATCH:

Town May Reject 'Pork' Money to Help Gulf Areas (NPR, audio)

Biggest pork chop to date yields a $347.47 billion surplus!

Leaked House Republican Study Committee document recommends huge cuts.

See all the Porkbuster posts on Instapundit.

Porkbusters makes CNN.

Alabama Senator Richard Shelby (Republican) said he would be willing to give up some of his allocated Federal monies for pork projects in his state to help fund recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina.

Indiana Congressman Mike Pence is leading a call for cuts in the federal budget that would match the spending for hurricane relief. "Operation Offset" is the name of the effort.

The details were made public on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning. The 23 pages of proposed cuts in the federal budget come from 110 members of Congress who belong to the Conservative Republican Study Committee chaired by Mike Pence.

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco said Tuesday she was willing to return to the federal Treasury $70 million designated for San Francisco projects in the new highway and transportation bill and use the money to help pay for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. (She later backtracked on this, however.)

Alaska Republican Senator Don Young: Bite me. (registration required)

See also: Homer Simpson and Ogden Nash's odes to pork, all-pork, all the time from the Heritage Foundation, Michele Malkin remembers her old Porkwatch site.

Categories: Politics, Corruption , Waste, Pork, Porkbusters