Rep. Flake's Earmark of the Week

From the Republican Study Committee email (source):

Mesa, Arizona – Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today highlighted a pork project contained in the Transportation-Treasury-HUD appropriations bill for fiscal year 2006.

This week’s egregious earmark: $300,000 to Bear Creek, Alabama for industrial park expansion.

“If fiscal responsibility in Congress isn’t dead, it’s certainly hibernating,” said Flake.

Is this sort of thing really the government's business?