04-13-2008, 11:42 AM
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(#22)...As for 15 percent budget cuts, can you point to actual programs that you want to get rid of , or does it just sound like a good number...
| - All the billions spent on federally funded 'bike paths'...if people want bike paths have the states fund them.
- Via the Heritage Foundation: A Strategy to Eliminate Wasteful Federal Spending
- State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) (about $6 billion annually)...We already have Medicaid and SCHIP is used for families over the poverty line...sometimes as much as 300% over the poverty line. That's $82,000 for a family of 4 in some states.
- Via Washington Post: GAO Report Points to Pentagon Waste
- Via CBS News: Meet Congress' "King Of Pork":
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According to an estimate by Taxpayers for Common Sense, he's [Congressman Murtha] steered more than $600 million in earmarks to his Pennsylvania district in the past four years and $2 billion since 1992. But what's been good for Murtha and his district is not always good for taxpayers...
...His most notorious project is the government agency that the government doesn't want: The National Drug Intelligence Center, also in Murtha's hometown. Every year the White House tries to close it because they already have a Drug Intelligence Center. But Murtha keeps the duplicate open using half-a-billion dollars in earmarks. | - Via Arizona Tribune: Cotton growers gain research site for free
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Arizona cotton farmer lobbyists have won a generous gift from taxpayers this holiday season: A research complex in east Phoenix worth several million dollars.
Absolutely free.
Congress, led by almost all of Arizona’s delegation, recently approved the transfer of 7 acres and 37 buildings that make up the Western Cotton Research Laboratory...
| - Via Heritage Foundation: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste:
Quote: - The Missing $25 Billion
Buried in the Department of the Treasury’s 2003 Financial Report of the United States Government is a short section titled “Unreconciled Transactions Affecting the Change in Net Position,” which explains that these unreconciled transactions totaled $24.5 billion in 2003. - Unused Flight Tickets Totaling $100 Million...
- Embezzled Funds at the Department of Agriculture...
- Credit Card Abuse at the Department of Defense...
- Medicare Overspending...
- Funding Fictitious Colleges and Students...
- Manipulating Data to Encourage Spending...
- State Abuse of Medicaid Funding Formulas...
- Earned Income Tax Credit Overpayments...
- Redundancy Piled on Redundancy...
| - Many, many more in this vein
Last edited by StitchInTime : 04-13-2008 at 11:47 AM.
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