WHOSE SIDE IS OUR GOVERNMENT
ON?
- The US Department
of Agriculture spends $110 million a year supporting the cost of advertising
American products abroad; in 1991 "American taxpayers spent $2.9
million advertising Pillsbury muffins and pies, $10 million promoting
Sunkist oranges, $465,000 advertising Mc DOnald's Chicken McNuggets,
$1.2 million boosting the international sales of American Legend mink
coats, and $2.5 million extolling the virtues of Dole pineapples, nuts,
and prunes."
- In 1994, a House of Representatives investigation found that federal defense contractors were charging the Pentagon for millions of dollars in entertainment and recreation. Martin Marietta, for example, charged the Pentagon $263,000 for a Smokey Robinson concert, $20,000 for golf balls, and $7,500 for a 1993 office Christmas party.
- In 1994, the Forest
Service spent $140 million building roads in national forests primarily
for the benefit of logging companies.
