Google Earth Map of Defense Earmarks

1500 pork locations. Amazing we are dumb enough to allow this misuse of our tax dollars. Now they tell us there is not enough money for kids health insurance. Shameful behavior.

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com The Sunlight Foundation, which says its mission is to use the Internet to give citizens a chance to learn more about just what Congress is up to, has taken the Google Earth application and used it to show just where nearly 1,500 "earmarks" in Defense appropriations legislation are sending taxpayers' money. clipped from blogs.usatoday.com clipped from blogs.usatoday.com If you want to play around with it, you'll need to download Google Earth. Then open up Sunlight's House Defense file. As USA TODAY's Ken Dilanian wrote last month, earmarks have been getting a lot of bad publicity on Capitol Hill lately -- and have become an issue in the presidential campaign as well. Ken defines earmarks as "congressionally directed spending." They're projects inserted into legislation by members of Congress that may or may not have anything to do with the original bill.