You can always count on Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) to remind you how wastefully your tax dollars are being spent in the form of earmarks. This week's "Egregious Earmark" is $984,000 for Abandoned Mines Reclamation in California
This pork project is "contained in the Omnibus Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2008," according to a Flake press release.
“With this earmark, taxpayers are quite literally getting the shaft,” said Flake.
I'm just sayin'...