“Lehman was founded in 1844 when Henry Lehman, a German immigrant, opened a small shop in Montgomery, Alabama. His brothers joined him six years later and, by 1858 they were busy turning cotton provided by local farmers into a cash crop — a business that didn’t have anything to do with helping low-income families afford 27-bedroom McMansions.”
—I want to see some proof or even anectodal evidence about a low-income family going for a 27-bedroom McMansion.
September 2008
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“The term pork barrel, while literally meaning a barrel in which pork is kept, is more commonly used as a political metaphor for the appropriation of government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents or campaign contributors. This usage originated in American English with reference to gifts of salt pork in a barrel by slave-owners to their slaves.”
—Pork barrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
