PorkBall Series: Porkers love frying State Ed Bacon

In this on-going porker series, analyzing federal state bacon is more difficult to do a single-part analysis. Originally, I wanted to include state pork and state educational pork in one post. But it got murky so I am reverting to simplicity in this post only focusing on state education pork, subject to any revision.

When it comes to state pork, there are two distinct subclasses-funding state agency and other instruments of the state crap and funding educational post-secondary institution crap. Plus one has to understand the funding of county government crap and both community colleges and public state universities are merely instruments of the state. I also wonder if these porkballers are going to pass out bacon for education, why limit frying the bacon to merely post-secondary education?

State education pork has very little logical relation or nexus to promoting the general welfare of the United States or funding any federal government agency. But, that does not stop congressional porkers from doling out our federal tax dollars to state governments or instruments of the state in some kind of corrupt process. Why the states including Kansas can’t pay for their own crap once again remains a huge mystery demonstrating a fiscally irresponsible abomination of our United States Constitution.

a) State pork to community colleges/state universities

Moran: 15,751,185, total pork 49.2%
Jenkins: 14, 341, 185, total pork 21.3%
Moore: 10,283,185, total pork 6.8%
Tiahrt: 15,331,185, total pork 16.6%

Total Ed Pork 55,206,702. Total pork % for education 15.6%

b) Combined congressional pork for educational crap by post-secondary education institution

KSU-11, 941, 185 (Moran)
10, 341,185 (Jenkins),
6,283,185 (Moore)
5,341,185 (Tiahrt)

All our porkballers love KSU with the highest slab of bacon total
$ 33,906,740 pieces of bacon.

KU 1,000,000 (Moran)
4,000,000 (Jenkins)
4,000,000 (Moore)

Tiahrt hates KU. Total pork for Jayhawkers. $9 million. This excludes pork related to KU Med Center (State pork) and pork to fund a building for private doctors by Pork King Moore.

Wichita State 8,650,000(Tiahrt).

Cloud County Community College (Moran) 2,000,000
Fort Hays State College (Moran) 310,000
Hutchison Community College (Moran) 500,000
Butler Community College (Tiahrt) 840,000
Coffeyville Community College (Tiahrt) 500,000.

Community College Total Pork: 4,150,000.

Giving pork to community colleges is merely a free congressional x-mas gift of your federal tax dollars. Lynn Jenkins hates community colleges giving zero. To me, good for Jenkins. The other three fiscally irresponsible porkballers limited bacon to only five community colleges in the entire state. So, overall, congressional porkers hate community colleges.

In the context of frying bacon to state colleges and universities, this is merely the broad-based culture of congressman across the nation. Probably because its popular form of corruption of our federal tax dollars.

Based on total bacon amount, Moran (just barely) wins the very competitive Coveted Education Porkball. I am also have to revisions to Moran's 1/2 porkball for municipal pork because I originally included his community college pork as part of his muni pork.

Finally, congrats to Jenkins for winning the Citizens Against Government Waste Porker of the Month Award for broken promises related to all pork being limited to the federal government or a strong nexus to the federal government. She came close and still remains in last place for wasting federal tax dollars. Jenkins is going to have to waste a lot more of our money to rise to being Queen of Kansas Porkballers next fiscal year. (FY2011). Although Moran is giving her stiff competition.

It remains to be determined who was the best of the worst at being fiscally conservative. Clearly, Moore and Tiahrt are not concerned what-so-ever with fiscal conservatism. These two yahoos are in a class of their own doling out huge slabs of bacon.

Next in PorkBall Series: We are getting closer to the end of giving an overall summary, final commentary, and the ultimate Golden Porkball Congressional Award. At this point, it is clearly down to Moore vs. Tiahrt. Then, by around May-June, there should be some data on which Senator is the biggest porker. Neither Roberts or Brownback are fiscal conservatives when it comes to doling out bacon. Both of these two have been ruining our nation fiscally for a real long time. Back to work on the next post.