Find a need, find a way to fix the problem, and Congress will find a way to turn it into a pork barrel.Take the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Washington came up with it back in 1973. Back then, it rewarded schools that came up with innovative ideas with the money to get them off the ground.
Back in the day, schools had to compete for the money with carefully designed ideas.
Today, just having a Congressman on the subcommittee that oversees the fund is clever enough.
Sen Arlen Specter chairs that panel. He sent $12 million home to Pennsylvania schools without the least bit of competition. The subcommittee's number two Republican, Sen Thad Cochran (R-MS), got another $12 million home to schools in Mississippi. (Santa Maria Times)
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