Have you ever heard the term “government pork”? Simply put it is the government throwing away its (our) money on pointless projects that serve no ones better interest except the politicans. I’ve decided to bring four such pork projects to your attention.

15 billion dollars
In 1991 when the city of Boston broke ground on the so-called [...]

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As I was looking through my feed reader this morning one of them caught my eye. It was from Turk Hit Box who is having problems with paypal. Personally I have a love-hate relationship with Paypal.

Over the course of time I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with Paypal’s staff on multiple occasions regarding [...]

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