When Factoids Collide....

Here are a couple of 'Factoids' in the headlines that don't juxtaposition all that well, Pilgrims..... first from CBS:

One Byrd Gets Lion's Share Of Earmarks

(CBS) At age 90, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia has been in the Senate longer than anybody else. And he's spent much of that time as head of the most powerful spending committee, with extraordinary control over earmarks - grants of your tax dollars without the normal public review, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports for Follow the Money. Byrd was the first senator to rack up a total of $1 billion in earmarks for his home state. That was in 1999.

Today he's past the $3 billion mark. In his famously colorful Senate speeches, Byrd has repeatedly defended his earmarks. "Hear me!! Some members have asserted that all, all, all earmarked funding is wasteful spending or an abuse of power," Byrd said. "Hogwash!"

And though tradition frowns on sitting members of Congress funding projects in their own name, they don't seem to have a problem with it in Byrd Country. West Virginia is full of ventures paid for with your tax dollars but named after him. You can take the Robert C. Byrd Highway to the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam, explore space through the Robert C. Byrd Telescope, and work at the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex.

In all, we found more than 40 projects bearing the Byrd name. Many of them sound perfectly reasonable, but the problem is other needy communities never get a crack at the money. "He's unabashedly unapologetic about his earmarking," said watchdog Leslie Paige, who calls the earmarks "Byrd droppings."

"It's always been 'to the victor goes the spoils' with these earmarks," said Paige, who works for Citizens Against Government Waste. "Which means if you've got a member who sits on a powerful committee, you're gonna get the lion's share of that money."

But it's made Byrd a hero back home. "Yeah man, you're lookin' at Big Daddy. Big Daddy!"

Now then - here's the dirty little secret about the folks that live along Robert C Byrd Highway and all those other monuments to this ex-KKK'r.

One in 6 West Virginians is on food stamps
Officials say higher cost of food, fuel diminish value of assistance
by Justin D. Anderson
Daily Mail Capitol Reporter
About one in every six West Virginians gets food stamps, the highest level of participation in at least 30 years.

Amid rising food and fuel costs, the assistance is becoming worth less and less.
And supplemental food programs for poor families are struggling to keep up with the added demand as donations are on the decline.
Last month, 274,487 state residents received food stamps. That's up from 246,890 just five years ago, according to data from the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
A total of 122,877 of the state's estimated 743,064 households currently receive food stamps. That's up from 105,365 households in 2003.

So we got a pork swillin', 900 year old, ex-Klansman, earning his re-election even past humorous senility, by bringing in $3 BILLION worth of pork projects to this state of less than two million hungry souls.

What's wrong with this picture ---?

Why do we let it happen----------?

When will folks rise and put and end to it--?

Shucks, probably never........!!! Any of y'all mad yet???