English Dictionary

pork-barrel

名詞

別表記 異形

Alternative spelling of pork barrel

日本語の意味

「pork-barrel」は「pork barrel」と同義であり、政治家が支持層に便宜を図るため、選挙区に対して政府資金を配分し、しばしば不要な公共事業を実施する行為、またはその予算を指す政治的用語です。

The senator defended the pork-barrel as essential for bringing federal funds to his rural district.

その上院議員は、地元の地方区に連邦資金をもたらすために不可欠だとして、利益誘導型の公共事業を擁護した。

意味（1）

Alternative spelling of pork barrel

That's one of the reasons I think presidents need a line-item veto authority. I had it when I was governor of California, and governors in forty-two other states have it as well. When the state legislature sent me a budget, I could take a blue pencil and reduce spending on individual items to a level taxpayers could afford. If there was something laudable about a piece of legislation, I could sign it but veto features in it that were pure pork. The legislators had the opportunity to override my decision—but none of my 943 vetoes in Sacramento were overturned, because legislators didn't want to publicly defend, under the full scrutiny of voters, their pork-barrel projects or items they had husbanded through their committees because of the influence of campaign donors and special-interest groups.

pork-barrels （ plural ）