In Exchange for Passage of CAFTA, We Get a Non-Stop Diet of Greasy, Spiked Pork

Think Progress also reports that in exchange for votes on CAFTA - a great idea when, since the passage of NAFTA, the hourly wage in Mexico has actually dropped- they get their favorite vain dreams answered in the transportion bill, like these:

- $200,000 for a deer avoidance system in Weedsport, N.Y.

- $330 million for a highway in Bakersfield., Calif.

- $480,000 to rehabilitate a historic warehouse on the Erie Canal

- $3 million for dust control mitigation on Arkansas rural roads.

- $2.3 million for landscaping on the Ronald Reagan Freeway in California (Truly ironic is the fact that Pres. Reagan once vetoed a highway bill because of its exorbitant spending expenses)

- Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young (R-AK) set aside $231 million for a bridge near Anchorage to be named “Don Young’s Way”

- Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) “used his seniority” to “secure $16 million for the eponymous Nick J. Rahall II Appalachian Transportation Institute at Marshall University”