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Pork in Hawaii
Thursday, April 1, 2010 10:04 AM
The first thing that comes to mind when you think "pork" and "Hawaii" might be a luau.
But this is actually not what this is about. Our friends at the Grassroot Institute have teamed up with Citizens Against Government Waste and have once again combed through Hawaii state expenditures to discover and highlight the waste and mismanaged tax dollars in state government. Here are some of the key findings from this year's Hawaii Pork Report:
$22,180 to move a sculpture from the Ala Moana Hotel to the Foreign Trade Zone, where it will sit until the state government decides where to put it;
$39,300 to relocate a fire hydrant;
$104.5 million for a mere 25 positions in the Honolulu Department of Transportation
More than $687,000 for a skateboard park that is 12 years in the making and 17 percent over budget
And that's just the tip of the (most definitely proverbial, since we're talking about Hawaii) iceberg. Click here to read the full report.
Reader Comments:
Stop spending money that is not used for so-called projects!!! It is not your money to spend...what goes around does come back to bite you in the wallet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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