Former Vice President Al Gore was Citizens Against Government Waste’s “Porker of The Month” for September 2000. This is what the CAGW had to say about the former VP:

Forget about Buddhist Temples; don't worry about making the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom. Al Gore has a new way to try to win the election with your money.

In a flurry of taxpayer financed campaign promises, the vice president is proposing to buy his way into the Oval Office, with a stunning $2.2 trillion in new spending for 2001-2005. That's $800 billion more than the combined budget and Social Security surpluses. With federal spending and tax burdens at historic highs, with rampant inefficiency and waste in government, such largesse is hard to fathom.

As CAGW has consistently said for the last two years, if the surplus stays in Washington, and isn't returned to taxpayers, the politicians would spend it. Gore is proving us right.

Teaching the children well would be expensive in a Gore regime. He proposes spending more than $235 billion on education; yet his own Department of Education (DoEd) has been a failure in improving the quality of education or keeping track of its own money. Financial weaknesses within DoEd have been documented by Ernst and Young, among others.

Gore's $80 billion in technology "investment" just increases the government's presence in this highly competitive marketplace. For example, instead of stopping the Microsoft witch-hunt, Gore wants to make sure everyone is logged on to the Internet - not exactly a government responsibility.

By flooding the budget with an average of $440 billion in new money per year over the next five years, Vice President Gore is guaranteeing that careless spending will continue and escalate. For this massive attempted bribe of the taxpayers with their own money, Vice President Gore deserves CAGW's "Porker of the Month."