If it Looks Like Pork And Smells Like Pork...

Drudge has ticked off Ag. Secretary Vilsack by quoting Recovery.Gov:

SPENDING SCARED: WHITE HOUSE PUTS OFF RELEASE OF BUDGET UPDATE...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $16,784,272 FOR 'CANNED PORK'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,444,100 FOR 'REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112'...RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $541,119 FOR 'INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNAL'...

While Vilsack quibbles over whether he paid a good price for ham, the more relevant question is, how is this stimulus and how does it create jobs? It isn’t hard to argue that the Administration is simply ’winging it’. Surely, this is the most expensive OJT in our history.