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"Pork-barrel project" nghĩa là gì?
01 Feb, 2020
He's Mr. Short-Term Memory. Photo credit: Huffington Post.
'Pork-barrel project' là những dự án dùng ngân sách công để làm hài lòng cử tri và giành được phiếu bầu của họ; dự án mua chuộc cử tri (the use of government funds for projects designed to please voters or legislators and win votes).
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That caused a lot of the scandals in Albany, a lot of the cases that were brought against politicians were about that pork barrel mentality and bringing a lot of money back to their cronies (thân hữu) in the district.
Labour has accused George Osborne of dipping into the “pork barrel” after it emerged the chancellor’s Budget contained initiatives aimed at marginal seats — including a project to tackle (giải quyết) the menace (mối đe dọa) of kebab-stealing urban seagulls (mòng biển).
I flashed back to the Republican congressmen sent to jail for taking bribes, disgraced by sex scandals, or implicated (vướng vào) in lobbying investigations. Then there was the wasteful spending, the earmarks for pork barrel projects, and our failure to reform Social Security despite majorities in both houses of Congress.
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