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Foxnews.com, type in your salary. here we use $50,000, because that is the median, the chart will show what portion of that pork project is paid for by your tax bracket, 18 percent, and then it calculates how much you pay individually for the program, in this case, about two bucks for a person in that wage bracket and more than 56 for a top wage earner. go to the website and you can also vote there, and basically say do you think this is a wise use of your money. some of the numbers may not seem like much, but remember, over 9000 earmarks last year, there are more this year, jon, we looked i...

Nothing. another idea that crashed and burned, airplane the military didn't want. congressman duncan hunter did. after 20 years and $63 million, the farthest this plane ever got was two feet off the ground. $70 million of your money was blown out of a wind tunnel in montana. the project wasn't requested by the pentagon or nasa, but congress funded it for more than a decade. >> the department of defense needlessly wasted over $70 million on moriah research that no one wants. >> behind every big pork project is a big lawmaker. today, no one is bigger than west virginia's robert bird. since he to...

You said they're the not burning money. maybe they're not burning money, but moving the money from efficient sources, if i spend the money, i spend it on thoughtful things that i think are going to benefit me or my family or my community. when the government takes the money, basically they're just giving it like a wood industry, they're giving it to the pork industry to study gas, you know, methane gas from pigs and by the way, there is always room for bath room humor. >> but, garrisi spending his own money. on top of this, the 32 billion dollars that they're giving away or whatever you want t...

This home on "special report" saying dirty little secret is the president is out of options. he's tried things. he's out of options. >> the key there, though, is the fact that the president had a gigantic stimulus, remember about a year ago, close to a trillion dollars. and it was the wrong thing to do. he farmed it out to congress, he said ok, i'm going to get a stimulus. nancy pelosi, harry reid, what should we do with the money? and it became a pork project and a whole bunch of jobs wound up costing $200,000 a copy and now fast forward to today and we are in a pickle. >> he would do the sam...