<div>The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of:<br><br>- $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa<br>- $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil<br>- $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri<br>- $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!)<br>- $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California<br>- $1 million for ornamental fish research<br><br>Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, <i>The Pig Book</i> proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!<br></div>