Pork good, bonuses bad


	Pork good, bonuses bad

infidel70

3-4-2009 9:48 PM

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infidel70 says:

When the government wastes money on pork, who's going to stop them?

If this were any more hypocritical, we'd be bemoaning the same corporations we own shares in.

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