WASHINGTON, DC -- In the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 2001 appropriations bill -- which Congress will vote on when it returns for its year-end lame-duck session -- $400,000 has been earmarked to build a "memorial" to Dr. Seuss, the author of Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, and other children's books.

The memorial would be built by the Springfield Library and Museum Association in Springfield, Massachusetts -- so it's no surprise that the provision to spend $400,000 was inserted into the bill by two Massachusetts Democrats, Senator Edward Kennedy and Rep. Richard Neal.

In opposition to this wasteful "pork" spending, and in tribute to Dr. Seuss, the Libertarian Party issued the following statement:

Green Eggs And Pork

We do not like it
Pork-I-Am,
This spendaholic
Uncle Sam.

We do not like those
Rs and Ds,
Who can't resist more
subsidies.

We do not like the cash they waste;
sky-high taxes spent in haste.
Frugality, they have erased,
and every bill, of pork it tastes.

We do not like it on the Hill,
When snuck into HUD's spending bill.
It shouldn't pass -- we bet it will
More money from the public till.

If YOU don't like
this Pork-I-Am
Start voting
Libertarian.

WE would not vote for
Pork-I-Am.
Or subsidize
green eggs and ham.

Job training programs
for the Grinch?
We would not even
budge an inch.

And if a cat
needed a hat?
Free enterprise is
there for that.

Now, just in case you are obtuse
I'll make it clear, with no excuse
We would not do it for a moose
We would not do it for a goose
And as you may by now deduce --
We'd vote "no" on Dr. Seuss.