Congressional Pork Spending Always Was And Will Be

Bill Frezza @ 'The Daily Caller' writes, "Huzzah, the Republicans have gained control of both houses of Congress! The era of Big Government is finally coming to an end! Just kidding, folks. Putting your faith in politicians’ ode to small government is truly the triumph of hope over experience. Welcome to the new Washington, same as it ever was."

Things aren't likely to change with the new members of congress in 2015. Erick Erickson @ 'Red State' is telling us, "Senate Republicans are dragging their feet and there are, according to Senate sources, strong signals the GOP intends to end the Senate earmarks ban. Just yesterday (11/13/2014), Senate Republicans refused to approve the earmarks ban."

Even if bans were ended Ryan Alexander and Stephen Ellis wrote in 'U.S. News', "Reviving earmarks is not going to break Congress' gridlock." Besides, in September Sarah Westwood @ 'The Washington Examiner' already told us, "Earmarks never went away --- they changed addresses."

Something 'Citizens Against Government Waste' might agree with. They published a booklet earlier this year containing a 2014 Congressional Pig Book Summary. Taking a quick look, since 2012 some earmarks tripled in percentages points!

If anyone was expecting 2015 to be a big year after voters put Republicans in charge of both sides of Congress they may find themselves disappointed one year from now. When it comes to earmarks both are big 'tax & spend' politicians. This is about the only kind of bipartisanship sure to never separate the two very far from one another.

Stossel 2009

Now it's coming up on 6 years later and things changed how ?

If you have too much time on your hands and want to spend a couple of days...
USA Spending.gov