"The problem is that lawmakers have been blinded by their greed to bring home the bacon in a election year and have forgotten that our nation has a fiscal crisis, " he said.

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There is a growing movement of do-it-yourselfers (DIYers) eager not just to bring home the bacon, but to bring home the pork, butcher it, cure it, smoke it and make their own bacon.

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They want to be able to show the people back home they can still bring the bacon.

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In some companies, they are expected to write reports that will bring home the bacon, either by encouraging the observed company to switch their corporate share dealing and issuing business to the analyst's City firm, or by stopping the company from moving this money-spinning trade elsewhere.

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