“This administration has lied before. I repeat, has lied before. They certainly lied in Fast and Furious.” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, goes on Fox News to discuss the upcoming committee hearing examining the GSA’s wasteful spending for their 2010 Western Regions Conference.
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January 6, 2012 07:48
Modern dancers, bed-bug battlers, earth worshipers get EPA ‘environmental justice’ grants
[T]he Environmental Protection Agency provided $1 million in grants to 46 different non-profit and tribal organizations to promote what it called “environmental justice.” Since 1994, a little-noticed EPA program has handed out a total of $23 million in such grants to 1,253 organizations, for stated purposes that observers are questioning. – Daily Caller
December 26, 2011 10:28
Washington politicians rearrange deck chairs on spending Titanic
As financial Armageddon looms for Europe and the US our politicians seem incapable of steering our ship of state through the icebergs of catastrophic spending and borrowing. – Washington Examiner
November 3, 2011 15:42
California’s High-Speed Train Wreck
“I don’t think you could dream up a bigger boondoggle than this, even if you tried.” “But the problem is everyone’s hand is now in the cookie jar . . . and they’re buying off every lobbyist and consultant that they can in California, so the corruption has reached a whole new level.”
March 18, 2011 05:16
John Stossel on lunatic government spending
Stossel’s show on 3-17-11 covered some of the many ways the government is throwing your money away. In some cases they can’t even account for it. Obama and his treasury secretary insist we must raise the debt ceiling to let them spend more of our money, our children’s money and our grandchildren’s money.
March 3, 2011 06:34
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Farmhouse Porch
[T]he “temporary” programs intended to offset the worst effects of the Great Depression have morphed into the bloated, corrupt, regressive and damaging programs we see today.
February 25, 2011 12:15
There Are too Many Bureaucrats and They Are Paid too Much
This mini-documentary uses government data to show how federal, state, and local governments are in fiscal trouble in part because of excessive pay for a bloated civil service.
February 22, 2011 06:36
$189.7 billion in federal spending was overt waste
With a government-wide error rate of 5.49%, improper payments in the federal government represent an often overlooked cost of expanding federal spending – on average, over $.05 of every dollar of spending is simply thrown away.
December 30, 2010 08:19
Free internet and computers with your tax dollars
Tampa Housing Authority has secured a $2.1 million federal grant to provide broadband Internet access to 23 public housing sites. The program also will help residents get computers of their own by offering 1,000 computers for only $125 and will install almost 200 computers in two communities to offer residents a designated work space.
December 23, 2010 09:25
Government Waste: 20 Of The Craziest Things That The U.S. Government Is Spending Money On
It is almost as if some sort of collective insanity has overtaken most Americans. The path we are on inevitably leads to national bankruptcy and the destruction of our financial system, but only a small percentage of the population seems to care.
