{"id":738,"date":"2006-05-03T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=738"},"modified":"2009-06-11T18:22:44","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:22:44","slug":"porkbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/05\/03\/porkbusters\/","title":{"rendered":"Porkbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the blogs I read regularly, Instapundit<\/a>, has been posting updates from a site called Porkbusters<\/a>. I think the idea behind Porkbusters is absolutely fantastic – especially in light of some recent news regarding a bill that gives money to Northrup Grumman:<\/p>\n

Why does a corporation that made $2.4 billion in profit need another $200 million from American taxpayers to cover a loss they’ve absorbed in that same year?<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Congress has a rather narrow view of profit in a free-market society. When ExxonMobil makes 10.7% profit, they decry the “windfall profit” of a corporation. When Northrup Grumman makes 7.1%, they qualify for a bailout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Porkbusters<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Why does a corporation that made $2.4 billion in profit need another $200 million from American taxpayers to cover a loss they\u2019ve absorbed in that same year?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-bU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4360,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/06\/06\/why-corporate-participation-in-politics-is-bad-bad-bad\/","url_meta":{"origin":738,"position":0},"title":"Why Corporate Participation in Politics is Bad, Bad, Bad","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've talked before about why corporations are evil (or rather, why they tend to behave that way). 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