Most Outrageous Ways Government Wasted Tax Dollars In 2010

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Common Sense wrote:

you want to justify only funding those things which are in the constitutions. hence, you have to be for cutting all the programs and laws i listed:

The Airforce
Marriage Protection
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
Homeland Security
All federal departments
The right to vote
voting primaries
all federal benefits and pensions
trial by jury of your peers
executive privilege and executive orders
reinstate slavery
the right to privacy
the electoral college
the federal highway system
national parks
national monuments
Air Force One
Marine One
The White House
The secret service
The FBI
The CIA

need i go on......

-SIGH-
I NEVER said fund ONLY things that are in the Constitution, the merits of the programs you mentioned can be debated later, I'M TRYNA TALK BOUT SS AND ITS POSSIBLE PRIVATIZATION that should @ least be an option. But since you'll likely keep deflecting unless I humor you.......I'll take your National Parks example, I've never been to one. HAVE YOU? Have the majority of Americans? NO. Obviously not. I likely never will, and would have NO problem with the federal government shutting those down. In case you missed it, our economy is STILL in an extremely, extremely fragile state right now. I would much rather that the fed. take the $ it spends on those and tried to pay down some of our debt, etc. Even better, shut them down and allow corporations like Wal-Mart to develop there. Revenue! JOBS! That would help us out alot more than a national fuckin park would, and I'm willing to be a majority of Americans would agree with me.

Electoral College? Shit, I bet even you would want that abolished, it DID give us GWB after all.

you want to set a precedent for allowing the privatization of a government program. with that precedent, why do we need a government at all? why not just keep everything private? then we dont even have to vote.

A federal government IS indeed mandated in the Constitution genius. Stop tryna put words in my mouth, and insisting that a domino effect would be needed.

I'M STILL WAITING FOR YOU TO PROVE OR EXPLAIN TO ME WHY, AGAIN, SOME FACELESS BUREAUCRAT IN D.C. HAS ANY REAL RIGHT TO MY HARD EARNED $. AND WHY I CAN'T @ LEAST HAVE THE OPTION OF INVESTING MY SS $ PRIVATELY INTO STOCKS OR WHATEVER I SO CHOOSE.

Damn, you don't even want us to have the OPTION of liberty. Keep peddling that authoritarian, federal dependence man.

 

[DiamondDave]

it also says for national defense, not national offense. so why isnt invading illegal? thats not defense, that offense.

and social security was passed in 1965 under the Social Security Act.

And hence the evidence that you have no fucking common sense, any aspect of what national defense is, any clue as to how a military works, etc

Surprised you can actually breathe and type at the same time

 

[Rozman]

Shouldn't the Stimulus package be at the top of the list?

 

[shintao]

still until a repub talks about tackling SS, medicare, medicaid and defense, its all just talking points.

Why is that?

What about starting somewhere and take it from there?

Why must a full solution be developed before we start taking action?

Why is it that a football team can be in a rebuilding mode, but our country must make full changes all at once?

Seems to me that you are the one stuck on a talking point.

when it comes to the budget though, it is the only talking about.

SS, medicare, medicaid, defense and interest on the debt account for approx 85% of the federal budget. even if you were to cut out the entire other 15% you still dont balance the budget or reduce the deficit.

if you arent willing to make any cuts or reforms in these programs, then it isnt worth talking about.

I keep saying, gut the defense budget & bring the troops home, but their just no groundswell for stopping the insanity.

 

[syrenn]

* The city of Las Vegas has received a $5.2 million federal grant to build the Neon Boneyard Park and Museum, including $1.8 million in 2010. For over the last decade, Museum supporters have gathered and displayed over 150 old Las Vegas neon signs, such as the Golden Nugget and Silver Slipper casinos.

* The National Science Foundation provided more than to $200,000 to study of why political candidates make vague statements.

* The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to maintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal monkey house in Dayton, Ohio.

* Medicare paid out over $35 million to a vast network of 118 “phantom” medical clinics, allegedly established by members of a criminal gang to submit phony reimbursement claims.

* The Government Printing Office (GPO) is using a “video game space mouse” (and nearly $60,000 in taxpayer funds) to teach children the history of printing.

* In July, nearly half a million taxpayer dollars went to the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where wine tasting and castle tours were among the events planned for the conference participants.

* The Internal Revenue Service paid out $112 million in undeserved tax refunds to prisoners who filed fraudulent returns, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).

* The National Science Foundation directed nearly a quarter million dollars to a Stanford University professor’s study of how Americans use the Internet to find love.

* The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) took the term “cold case” to a new level in 2010. The agency spent over $20,000 in taxpayer money “to unravel the anonymity of a 2,500-year-old mummy.”

* The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent nearly $442,340 million to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social setting.

* This year, taxpayers forked over $60,000 for the “first-of-its kind” promotion of the Vidalia onion in conjunction with the movie, Shrek Forever After. ”

* The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded over $600,000 to the Minnesota Zoo to create a wolf “avatar” video game called “WolfQuest.”

* A $700,000 federal grant paid for researchers to examine “greenhouse gas emission from organic dairies, which are cause by cow burps, among other things.”

You can read Wastebook 2010 in its entirety here.



Read more at the Washington Examiner: Coburn report details most outrageous ways government wasted tax dollars in 2010 | Washington Examiner

Sad isn't it?

 

[Agit8r]

Did anyone mention the "oversees contingencies"?

 

[(R)IGHTeous 1]

CommonSense is quiet, and I know he's been on here a while since I posted that.

That's all I need to know........pwned.