$88 million of "big bad federal government" money to build a section of the "Heartland Express" in western Nebraska. That's lot of Tea for the Tea Partiers. But don't expect any howls of protest around here. The kind of federal money we don't like being spent is that spent on other people, not ourselves. The key is to not really call it "spending" at all (like we do with nasty things like social programs, education, the environment, etc.), but rather economically-responsible euphemisms like "investment" or "economic development." Pork-barrel spending or government waste, on the other hand, is usually what's spent on the other guy. 'Go figure...
