Hawks and Hogs

"When the 2007 budget awarded $439 billion to the Department of Defense, the White House bragged that defense spending had risen 7 percent from 2006 and 48 percent from the 2001 budget, the last one passed before 9/11. Billions of those dollars are earmarked by legislators, and plenty of the spending is pork, but there is no political will to alter that in a post-9/11 Congress."