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50 EXAMPLES OF GOVERNMENT WASTE

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Neal Boortz
@ October 8, 2009 8:18 AM Permalink | Comments (20) | TrackBacks (0)

For those of you who are completely fed up with the outrageous spending by our imperial federal government .... You might wanna wait to drink your coffee before you read this one. The Heritage Foundation has come up with a list of 50 examples of government waste. I picked out a few little gems, but here's where you can get the full list.

- The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades.

- Despite trillion-dollar deficits, last year's 10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.

- The federal government owns more than 50,000 vacant homes.

- Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.

- Congress recently gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.

Jamie Dupree also has an entertaining list of earmarks for agricultural programs. These are your tax dollars, ladies and gentlemen.

Well ... YOU consider them to be your dollars. Politicians don't look at it that way. This sounds a bit radical ... but trust me on this one. These looters in Washington consider every single penny of your wealth to be theirs. You, in fact, belong to them. You are allowed to work so you will produce. And you are allowed to produce so that you can fund government. In order to keep you producing the government has to keep you calmed down by allowing you to keep some of the wealth you produce. Here's where the balancing act comes in. Day after day; session after session; these so-called "public servants" are diligently working on finding just the right balance. How much earned wealth do they have to allow you to keep before you slide into open revolt? Are they pushing your limits yet? Just wait for the VAT!

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  • A New Party
    I am tired of both parties and the spending. We just need a third party and start from scratch. Can we simplify anything???
    By Mylynn @ 10/24/09 10:58:51 AMreport abuse
  • resource spending
    Clearly resources need protection if we are to balance food, fiber and energy production with productive soil, abundant clean water, healthy air plus thriving plant and animal communities. Yes, these earmarks need to tracked for accounatbility. I do not know about you folks but I am in support of government spending tax dollars on conserving resources, improviing productivity and enhancing habitats.

    NRCS has an excellent track record and is fully accountable for all dollars spent. Why are taxpayers not demanding more funding be sent to increasing productivity while minimizing degredation?

    How do you feel bout this?
    By agman @ 10/08/09 06:43:12 PMreport abuse
  • shocked?????.......nah........
    this is not really new news just another point to be added to the list of things to use against scumsuckin' politicians.........

    MATTISBEN......been sayin' that for years.....ever heard of DRIP???? it stands for....
    Don't Return Incumbent Politicians....

    it has been around for many years but it's still got that showroom shine and smell on it from lack of use......

    I'm not callin' you stoopid when I say the amerikan voter is a dumbass......the truth is they are.....look at all the lifelong politicians in d.c.......I will be willing to bet that "WATERHEAD NONSWIMMING ALREADY DEAD" kennedy will be reelected to another term by the dumbasses from massatwosh*ts.......

    so stock up on beer and bullets....don't forget to get some jerky too.......

    ARM YOURSELF
    PROTECT YOU AND YOURS
    DRIP
    By butt neckid @ 10/08/09 01:02:35 PMreport abuse
  • out of applications....bush's fault??????
    I go's down to the gubmint money office an' they didn't have no applications.....

    the fat lady tol' me it's all bush's fault.......

    now how am I gonna get sum free money???? damn bush......
    By butt neckid @ 10/08/09 12:41:40 PMreport abuse
  • DRIP
    Time for a major change. Don't Return Incumbent Politicians. 'Nuff said.
    By dw @ 10/08/09 12:29:39 PMreport abuse
  • Wont Get Fooled Again
    your foolish if you think anything changed since obama's been elected. it don't matter why the debt is increasing. it's increasing.

    god, you and your duplicates are dumber that s!!t

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE
    By tshirt-doctor.com @ 10/08/09 11:55:22 AMreport abuse
  • The has to be a way of stopping this progression into the slavery of Statism.
    More and more achievers will 'go John Galt' as things go from bad to worse.

    The Looters either are either too stupid to know this or don't care as long as they are still able to 'Rule' over us.

    The only way I can see us stopping this is a General Strike by the achievers and producers.


    They dismissed and ignored our marches and protests, what other options do we have?

    The achievers and producers are going to drop out of the economy anyways, maybe they should take action earlier before the situation gets Far, Far worse.

    Does anybody have any better ideas?
    By ACE @ 10/08/09 11:29:49 AMreport abuse
  • Enough with the Bush Derangement Syndrome Crap
    If you can't see that this a@#-clown administration/regime is pushing wasteful spending to "never seen before" levels, then you're clearly a bigger idiot than I previously thought.

    Yeah, that means you T-Sh#t Doctor. Nobody wants to hear that Buuuuuuuuuuush wah wah wah crap anymore.
    By $mooth Operator @ 10/08/09 10:35:07 AMreport abuse
  • DG
    Exactly.
    One of my pet peeves is the term "tax refund".
    It's a "Recovery" (partial at that) and nothing short of that, just the same as the police finding your wallet after a mugging and returning it to you with some or all of the money still in it.

    Now if you didn't have any taxes withheld and still get a "Reeefuuunnd", well that's just outright theft from the till.
    By shuttin down @ 10/08/09 10:30:09 AMreport abuse
  • proper use of stimulus
    What does a citizen have to do to get some of that money?
    I have a business concept that may or may not be profitable. It will accomplish several things
    1) Employ up to 10 people per location
    2) Reduce landfill use
    3) Save local governments money
    4) Turn a profit (maybe)
    How does a man with a plan get those in charge to listen to him?

    It would take abouot $400,000 to test the system.
    By Scrap Iron @ 10/08/09 10:26:27 AMreport abuse
  • Kill the Ag Bill
    Demand congress kill the Ag bill. Only the rich should have food. Seriously Chambliss, blueberry production? Poor people should not enjoy this wonderful anti-oxidant.
    By Commoner @ 10/08/09 10:17:10 AMreport abuse
  • talk about gov't waste
    Late last week, Congress finally cleared legislation that would triple the current level of U.S. non-military aid to Islamabad over the next five years, to an annual rate of 1.5 billion dollars. Only a fraction of the 11 billion dollars provided to Pakistan under the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush from 2001 was devoted to non-military assistance.


    and 2003's Defense Department's acknowledgement that it is missing over $1.3 trillion U.S. and that the Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks, and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units
    By tshirt-doctor.com @ 10/08/09 09:58:13 AMreport abuse
  • TAlk about gov't waste
    Hey we have to spend at least another 300 billion on afghanistan (total 600 billion), we need to stop wasting money on our roads and bridges and trying to put people in this country to work.

    How are we going to afford to bomb the moon in order to find the water we need from there if we keep spending money on gov't programs that provide food to worthless people who only need more benefits like health care?

    When are we going to stop wasting money on trying to stop CEO's from making huge bonuses? When I ask you when?!?

    Why do we waste so much money hunting down white collar criminals? These people only used pens and papers to rob us and help fuel this recession.
    Why are we paying all this money for unemployment benefits? These people caused all of their own problems.

    Perhaps one day we will stop spending money on people and find a way to give it all to businesses.
    By Mike @ 10/08/09 09:39:39 AMreport abuse
  • Pork & business class travel
    Some of these examples are clearly outrageous and unjustifiable. Others can be somewhat gray . . . one person's pork is another person's essential and important project. Kind of like how everyone thinks Congress is bad, but their representative is the exception . . . or American schools are all bad, except the ones in my neighborhood.

    On the business class travel matter: my company, and many others, authorizes business class travel for international flights of 8 hours or more. The reason is my company expects employees to be fully productive on their business trips; flying a transoceanic flight sitting upright in coach class and then going in a jet-lagged funk from airport to meeting upon landing does not set the stage for a productive meeting.

    Now, if the choice for that trip to Europe or Asia is $1,200 for a coach class ticket or $4,000 for a business class ticket, is that incremental productivity worth $2,800? I don't know, but many private sector institutions have apparently decided it is. My company is not letting me fly business class just because they want to give me a perq or because they want to waste the shareholder's money. So, assuming there is a legitimate citizens' benefit to these government trips, I might be willing to cut them a break.

    Premium class travel on DOMESTIC flights is, however, unacceptable.
    By Travelin' Man @ 10/08/09 09:32:55 AMreport abuse
  • Monarchy
    Is it time to overthrow the present monarchy and reestablish the concept of the citizen-statesman? Yes, and we have a nonviolent means - vote every incumbent out! Like Neal says, everyone thinks their rep is the exception.
    By mattisben @ 10/08/09 09:23:55 AMreport abuse
  • Detroit
    Did you all see that link on Drudge yesterday regarding those welfare parasites in Detroit? Thousands of these leeches waited in a line to get an application for a cash payment!! Your tax dollars at work! $3,000 cash will be given to these people based on certain ridiculous parameters. How do we sign up for that?
    By Club-a-Liberal @ 10/08/09 09:16:19 AMreport abuse
  • Holy Cow (or Salmon)
    I actually flew on that Alaska Airlines 737 painted with the Salmon this past summer. I had no idea that I had helped pay for it. What a waste.
    By Walt @ 10/08/09 09:02:18 AMreport abuse
  • Waste
    I would say what this type of information makes me want to do, but I don't fancy receiving a 'visit' from a bunch of dark-suited, shades-wearing "concerned officials" who would like to "discuss a few things" with me.
    By Randy @ 10/08/09 08:49:09 AMreport abuse
  • Sheeple
    Neal, Unfortunately too many of the sheeple in this country DO NOT realize that money that comes from the government belongs to the people. They seem to think that the government somehow has its own money, and they want some of it. These are the same people who, when asked how much they paid in Federal taxes say, "I didn't have to pay. I got a refund..."
    By DG in GA @ 10/08/09 08:43:45 AMreport abuse
  • Liar in thief
    Just what do you expect with a dope smoking, coke snorting, boozing tobacco addict liar in chief in charge?
    By Fred @ 10/08/09 08:28:59 AMreport abuse
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