The Line of Pigs at the Trough is as Far as the Eye Can See

The House of Representatives have approved a pork-laden "stimulus" bill that satisfies a Democratic-party wish list of subsidies and give-aways. As the Wall Street Journal reports, it is a pig fest.

For those who have been thinking it is a modern version of the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps or Works Progress Administration, it isn't. Instead, it is laden with subsidies for Amtrak, mass transit, cable TV boxes, National Endowment for the Arts, child care, renewable energy, carbon capture research - if it is on the liberal agenda, it is in the House bill.