A few days ago the Information Age caught up to our Industrial-era Government and Mainstream Media. It’s been taken as Gospel that the U.S. Federal Government will stop pork-barrel spending When Pigs Fly. Well, on December 19th, 2024, squadrons of pigs flew over the Nation’s Capital in an event that may not have happened since the time humans were nothing more than hunters and gatherers. Host Bill Whittle unpacks 9,000 years of pork in this latest edition of Hot Mic!
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This piece sounded like it was written by a professional, Bill. Congrats. Hire the dude!
Excellent work Bill – I never thought of some of this before. I appreciate your acumen… They not only can’t pave the roads, but there were people in Western North Carolina who were still in tents as of about three weeks ago. It was 19 degrees last night in southern Virginia. And yeah… a 40% pay raise???? And no Obamacare requirement… Most people don’t even have $100.00 to pay for an emergency, but these people are getting rich from every direction. Thank you Bill – one of the main reasons I send you money each month!
line item veto would solve some of those problems but ALL of the politicians are in it. Trump wants term limits and I hope he gets term limits.
Oh Bill, you and Hot Mike are so naive. The latest pork barrel spending was passed less than a week after your episode. It’s called a Continuing Resolution that includes suspending the debt limit.
Pork barrel spending will be suspended when the economy collapses and will be resurrected when whatever form of government rises to take it place.
Excellent segment! Quite illuminating. Seems like Democrats prefer existence in their own siloed echo chambers, that promote their lives, as parasites on the once healthy free market hosts. D’money: Sire, the people are revolting! King: Yah, they stink on ice. It’s good to be the King … Duke … Earl … Baron … Knight … that is until we revive public guillotines +/or gallows. Personally, I feel we need: (1) Short 8 yr term limits for Congress; (2) Decreased congress pay to disincentivize corrupt political careers .vs. short-term public service; and (3) Require ALL Bills MUST be written in plain… Read more »
The trick was to stick something that sounds worthwhile among the pork, in this case it was pediatric cancer research, so any holdout will be accused of voting for cancer in children.
Hakeem Jeffries tried that shaming crud and rightfully got told to get bent
intimately related, literally, occasionally someone will publish a list of media people who are married to, or otherwise related to government people, it’s shocking, it goes on for pages, they are literally in bed together or blood related.
Fantastic piece! Bill, I think this belongs in Civics classrooms across the country – wait, we have to restart those first, but then… Thank you for your passion. Bring us more of this!