CAGW Website Inundated after McCain Mention in Presidential Debate.WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW CAGW Citizens Against Government Waste ) was mentioned by Republican presidential candidate John McCain For McCain's grandfather and father, see John S. McCain, Sr. and John S. McCain, Jr., respectively John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. during the first presidential debate on Friday, September 26 in Oxford, Mississippi Oxford is the county seatGR6 of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. The population is currently about 19,000, due to a recent annexation of five square miles of Lafayette County in all directions. . The comment about CAGW came in response to a question by PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, moderator Jim Lehrer, when he asked "What are the fundamental differences between your approach and the approach of Sen. Obama to what you would do to lead this country out of the financial crisis?" Sen. McCain began by saying "Well, the first thing we have to do is get spending under control in Washington. It's completely out of control. It's gone -- we have now presided over the largest increase in the size of government since the Great Society...and the -- the worst symptom on this disease is what my friend, Tom Coburn, calls earmarking  It has been suggested that some sections of this article be split into a new article entitled Earmark (USA). as a gateway drug, because it's a gateway. It's a
gateway to out-of-control spending and corruptionOI suggest that people
go up on the Web site of Citizens Against Government Waste, and
they'll look at those projects."
CAGW's website received a tenfold increase in traffic over Friday evening and throughout the weekend. "We believe that taxpayers, given the right tools to research the information and educate themselves, are vitally interested in learning how their hard-earned money is being wasted. The dramatic increase in traffic to the website confirms our belief that taxpayers care deeply about out-of-control federal spending and want Members of Congress to stop secretly earmarking billions of dollars worth of pork-barrel spending," stated CCAGW CCAGW Council for Citizens Against Government Waste President Tom Schatz. Information about earmarks and pork-barrel spending can be found at the following links; Sen. McCain did not request any earmarks in fiscal year 2008 or in any other year: CAGW's report "All About Pork" can be viewed here: www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_earmarks Earmarks sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama in fiscal year 2008 can be viewed here: www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008_database Earmarks sponsored by Sen. Joseph Biden in fiscal year 2008 can be viewed here: www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008_database The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement mis·man·age tr.v. mis·man·aged, mis·man·ag·ing, mis·man·ag·es To manage badly or carelessly. mis·man  age·ment n. in government.
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