Porker of The Month (August 2010): Rep. Hal Rogers!

Reason.tv presents Citizens Against Government Waste's Porker of the Month for August 2010: Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)!

Conservation or nepotism? Since 2007 Rogers has been promoting a bill which would provide federal grants to overseas wildlife protection for lions and cheetahs. Surprise! Rogers' daughter is the grants administrator for the Namibia-based Cheetah Conservation Fund, and has been since—you guessed it—2007.

Congratulations, Hal!

"Porker of the Month" is written and produced by Austin Bragg. Approximately 1.2 minutes.

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[Wormtail81]

HOLY SMOKES!!! That guy has a lot of nerve funneling $5 million to an organization his daughter manages grants for. Surely that is illegal!

[jnjnelson]

I just love the "You ain't lion, cheetah" line. Couldn't be more cheesy.

[felpaluche]

rich man, do something worthwhile like helping the poor.

[FRSFreeStateNow]

What a perfect job for a porker Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee

[blackh2o1]

I want hair like that

[nominalvelocity]

@BlueRonin44 My grandma used to have a saying "count the pennies and the dollars count themselves", a wise enough parable.

Still, when you've got a leaky dyke, the logical approach is to tackle the largest holes first--and that's the reason I can't get worked up about this. This leak and (and others like it) is infinitesimal next to many others, even if you add them up.

When we get Medicare to stop hemorrhaging billions of dollars every year to *scammers*, I'll start to care a little bit more.

[MusicEqualsMemories]

@BlueRonin44: No money went anywhere. It was proposed. A non story.

[BlueRonin44]

@MusicEqualsMemories If saving the $5m in taxpayer was needed so badly, then the grant could have been approved without going through daddy.

But since it was a Representative who has been in office 15 years giving the taxpayer money to his little girl's pet project, a REASONable person would question the necessity of that group or the money. But if you're happy with acts like this in DC, then just keep voting Dem/Rep.

[BlueRonin44]

@nominalvelocity I understand your point, but you've got to break out of that mindset. The frivolous money adds up. And if you're not outraged enough to speak out against this behavior, then every other dirty politician takes it as silent consent. The time for "eh that's politics" is over. We need to take back this country and save it from itself. The line in the sand must be drawn!!

[BlueRonin44]

@CharlesHorman "Reason Magazine is affiliated with Ronald Bailey (reason's science correspondent), a prominent yet clandestine eugenicist."

Hopefully Ronald Bailey or his representative will this post. If you're lying, then maybe your remarks could be construed as libel. If your telling the truth, then you have nothing to worry about.

[BlueRonin44]

@grraadd Or how about saving starving children in her own goddamn country? $5m would be a lot of sandwiches.

[MusicEqualsMemories]

@TheLegalImmigrant05: Did I say the system was good or moral? No. Did I say you should support that system? No. Did I attempt to redefine libertarianism? No. I was commenting on what I considered to be an ill conceived and poorly done video. My 'agenda' was to suggest we need less snide petty remarks and more concrete ideas. This video is about a case of attempted nepotism (which never actually took place). Glad you have been entertained. So long.