Pork, Pork Barrel Spending and Beavers

Beaver Damage

I used to like the show Bulls and Bears on Saturday morning.  It made up, sorta, for the markets being closed.  It has started being far too political.  Too much politics and not enough on the stock market and money matters. 

This past Saturday was no exception.  Brenda Buttner is the host of this show and she began the discussion about pork spending.  One thing led to the other and Toby started laughing about $208,ooo being set aside in North Carolina for beaver management.  The entire panel broke up hysterically and acted like this was the dumbest use of money ever thought of.  Toby said it was code for killing them. 

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