or one person’s pork may be another person’s health food.

Follow this link to the article on Huffington Post.

Jindal thought that stimulus package spending  $140 million “for something called ‘volcano monitoring,'” was pork.

After the recent eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska, the citizens near the mountain are very thankful for the advance warning they got from the volcano monitors.

It is easy to heap ridicule.  I wonder if Jindal will find it as easy to apologize.

All others who think they know pork when they see it, stop a minute, catch your breath, and actually think for yourself.

Having lived in Oregon for a dozen years in reasonably close proximity to Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Hood, I know that people in different parts of the country have different concerns.  Others not faced with these threats have no appreciation for them.  That is why a Senator or Representative from a place may have better knowledge about real local threats than others who live far from that threat.