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I think it' s going to be up to the TAXPAYERS to stop this bull....elect only those who will stop this asinine spending... elect those who are in favor of term limits...reduced pay and NO benefits....this is NOT supposed to be a career...just a temporary, voluntary "help" to our country.
Wake us up when you find one candidate willing to vote themselves out of those things.
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I think it' s going to be up to the TAXPAYERS to stop this bull....elect only those who will stop this asinine spending... elect those who are in favor of term limits...reduced pay and NO benefits....this is NOT supposed to be a career...just a temporary, voluntary "help" to our country.
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Wake us up when you find one candidate willing to vote themselves out of those things.
You beat me to the answer..WHO is going to "bell the cat" on govt waste? Not gonna happen.
Coast guard party patrols – $100,000
Watching grass grow – $10,000
State department tweets @ terrorists – $3 million
Swedish massages for rabbits – $387,000 (personal favorite runner-up)
Paid vacations for bureaucrats gone wild – $20 million (this one already in the news)
Mountain lions on a treadmill – $856,000
Synchronized swimming for sea monkeys – $50,000 (my personal favorite)
Pentagon to destroy $16 billion in unused ammunition -- $1 billion
Scientists hope monkey gambling unlocks secrets of free will –$171,000
Rich and famous rent out their luxury pads tax free – $10 million
Studying “hangry” spouses stabbing voodoo dolls – $331,000
Promoting U.S. culture around the globe with nose flutists – $90 million
^^^ This folks is one of the reasons why you go to work, bust your ass, pay taxes to pay for. Then Obama had the nerve to demand the American people pay more taxes.
Of course those on the dole could give a damn, just so you bust your ass to pay their way too.
$3,000,000,000,000 and counting, wasted in Bush's Sand Box
Isn't that cute.....another leftie untruth.
And here we see the left's inexplicable need to lie even when it's not necessary. The actual number is $806 billion according to the CRS, and would make the point perfectly well. But no, they can't resist the urge to prevaricate and nearly quadruple the number.
The other thing is that the Iraq war could have done some good for us, had we not precipitously withdrawn. It's just dumb to compare that to something like spending on Swedish massages for rabbits.
Good for him! I didn't realize the Senator was keeping up the legacy of another former senator (I can't recall his name; was it Scoop Jackson?) who used to publish a report every year detailing the more crazy expenditures.
Looks like the pork barrel is not yet dry.
You might be thinking of William Proxmire (D, WI) who used to issue an annual 'Golden Fleece Award' for wasteful spending. According to his Wikipedia entry, one of the awards was issued to the FAA for a study of:
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the physical measurements of 432 airline stewardesses, paying special attention to the 'length of the buttocks
How about the Air Force taking the cake this year. Destroying planes they bought for the Afgan Air force..
The U.S. government spent $468 million to buy and refurbish 20 older C-27A airplanes from Alenia, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA , but later canceled the program because a lack of spare parts was severely limiting their availability for military use.
How about the Air Force taking the cake this year. Destroying planes they bought for the Afgan Air force..
The U.S. government spent $468 million to buy and refurbish 20 older C-27A airplanes from Alenia, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA , but later canceled the program because a lack of spare parts was severely limiting their availability for military use.
$50 million a pop, and sent directly to the 'boneyard' in Arizona. There had to be some payoffs from the Italians for this, and meanwhile back at the ranch, the Italians try to imprison Amanda Knox.
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