Cal Thomas on the "Pig Book"

Cal Thomas, at Townhall this morning, questions what happened to the Republicans' promise ten years ago to take control of the budget process and exercise spending restraint in Washington. A decade later, wasteful spending is as rampant as ever.

Sadly, Republicans have been seduced by the love of other people's money and many (there are a few holdouts, but not enough to change much) have succumbed to the same temptations that enveloped big-spending Democrats. Only the "uniforms" have changed. The rules of this game remain the same.

The 2005 "Congressional Pig Book," published by Citizens Against Government Waste, comes out in early April and will help expose some of the taxpayer-funded projects of Congress. In Cal Thomas' words, "The Pig Book is an annual reminder that Congress has become the nation's biggest whore and taxpayers are the johns."

Let's hope it exposes why we're giving $100,000 to the Tiger Woods Foundation, $450,000 to the Baseball Hall of Fame, $150,000 for turfgrass research in WV, or hundreds of other pork projects around the country.