I tried to explain this to cranky yelling at clouds guy who would have been president on the twitter machine yesterday, but Reuters is apparently doing his work for him. Not sure if they or CNBC wrote the headline,
but it's this.
2011 Spending Bill Is Loaded With $8 Billion in Pet Projects
It's LOADED you see. These "pet projects" amount to .8% of the total budget. Nowhere in the story is either that fact or the total size of the budget presented.
