Mmm, Pork!
An idea whose time has come: PorkBusters.
No one usually complains when they get pork. It's tasty, and it doesn't seem to cost that much. It's only when you watch the other guy gorge on it, eyes glazed, fat dribbling down his chin, that you get the urge for the life of a Vegan. But then the waiter brings you your share, and you don't see the other guy anymore as you cut into the juicy…. You get the idea.
But when we get to the point where we can't see our toes, or have to move out of the split-level to a ranch because the stairs seem to be more of a challenge than they used to be, it's time for a diet. One of these times is now.
The cost of the Katrina relief effort has brought into focus, for the moment anyway, how much pork we have on the table, and it's time to share. But the initial response of our politicians has made it clear that they're not going to stop eating unless we wire their jaws shut. This is where you come in.
The now famous $200-300 million Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere (nowhere unless maybe you want to visit Ted Turner's sea lions) and Tom DeLay's famous remark:
"My answer to those that want to offset the spending is sure, bring me the offsets, I'll be glad to do it. But nobody has been able to come up with any yet,"have inspired a thousand blog posts and now, PorkBusters.
Porkbusters is a new site where you can go to provide answers to Mr. DeLay by calling your own congress-critter and asking them whether or not they can find any fat to cut. You can then add that, or any fat that you've found in your own, to the database (it's real easy). Here's the Technorati PorkBusters site where you can go for related blog posts.
If you've contributed to the relief effort, that's great, and that effort has raised an enormous amount of cash. But we're talking billions here (over 300 of them), and it's already been taken from your pocket. So visit, and if you're so inspired, send an email or a snail mail to the guy[s]/gal[s] in your state (you know, the one[s] with their hand in the cookie jar), and tell them you care.
Note: Credit goes to Instapundit for running with this and N.Z. Bear for putting it all together. Go team!
