Federal Fumbles. Wasteful spending.

[eagle1462010]

Federal Fumbles. Wasteful spending.

What is our Government good at.........Wasting money..........

Report: Govt. Wastes Billions as National Debt. Approaches $19 Trillion - Judicial Watch

Here’s one of the many examples included in the report; the government actually spent $300,000 to study how previously married seniors handle dating later in life. The weight-loss program for truck drivers cost an astounding $2.7 million and $406,419 was dedicated to determine whether the media polarizes people politically.

Here’s another big winner; the Department of Defense (DOD) blew a mind-boggling $48 million on military supplies for Yemen that never made it out of a Virginia warehouse! The merchandise included medical supplies, corroded batteries and low-grade explosives for airplane ejection seats, according to the report. The State Department spent $5.75 million in foreign countries to conserve a Buddhist temple in Vietnam, on Bengal folk music in India and to preserve Jamdani weaving traditions in Bangladesh. U.S. spending abroad should advance American national interests, the report points out, and none of these causes appear to meet the criteria.

The State Department also doled out a breathtaking $5 million to maintain a Twitter account that aims to deter middle school students from becoming terrorists and $545,000 to teach agency leaders how to testify before Congress. The National Science Foundation (NSF) spent $1.2 million to train robots how to help dress the elderly by, among other things choosing outfit combinations. The DOD actually wasted $328,500 to study a tiny bird by tracking its nests, the ability of babies to learn to fly and the temperature and availability of food around the nest. The senator’s report asks “in what universe should the DOD spend $283,500 to study the day-to-day life of a tiny bird? How is American national security strengthened by this study? DOD should be in the business of defense, not nature conservancy.” It also points out that another federal agency is already tasked with conducting these types of studies.

http://www.lankford.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Federal_Fumbles_2015.pdf

 

[eagle1462010]

Perhaps you would like to see the Farce Awakens instead.............

http://www.flake.senate.gov/public/...99533056741/wastebook---the-farce-awakens.pdf

 

[eagle1462010]

Let's go back in time to 2014 Waste book.........

 

[Kosh]

Federal Fumbles. Wasteful spending.

What is our Government good at.........Wasting money..........

Report: Govt. Wastes Billions as National Debt. Approaches $19 Trillion - Judicial Watch

Here’s one of the many examples included in the report; the government actually spent $300,000 to study how previously married seniors handle dating later in life. The weight-loss program for truck drivers cost an astounding $2.7 million and $406,419 was dedicated to determine whether the media polarizes people politically.

Here’s another big winner; the Department of Defense (DOD) blew a mind-boggling $48 million on military supplies for Yemen that never made it out of a Virginia warehouse! The merchandise included medical supplies, corroded batteries and low-grade explosives for airplane ejection seats, according to the report. The State Department spent $5.75 million in foreign countries to conserve a Buddhist temple in Vietnam, on Bengal folk music in India and to preserve Jamdani weaving traditions in Bangladesh. U.S. spending abroad should advance American national interests, the report points out, and none of these causes appear to meet the criteria.

The State Department also doled out a breathtaking $5 million to maintain a Twitter account that aims to deter middle school students from becoming terrorists and $545,000 to teach agency leaders how to testify before Congress. The National Science Foundation (NSF) spent $1.2 million to train robots how to help dress the elderly by, among other things choosing outfit combinations. The DOD actually wasted $328,500 to study a tiny bird by tracking its nests, the ability of babies to learn to fly and the temperature and availability of food around the nest. The senator’s report asks “in what universe should the DOD spend $283,500 to study the day-to-day life of a tiny bird? How is American national security strengthened by this study? DOD should be in the business of defense, not nature conservancy.” It also points out that another federal agency is already tasked with conducting these types of studies.

http://www.lankford.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Federal_Fumbles_2015.pdf

That is because there is hardly any accountablility..

Even at the ballot box you vote for the same thing these day!

 

[Indeependent]

You REALLY don't want to know how much money the average Financial Institution wastes.
And yes, it is the Stock Holders investments they're wasting.

 

[eagle1462010]

60 Insane Ways The Government is Spending Your Money

#22 If you can believe it, $10,000 of U.S. taxpayer money was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes up in Michigan.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

You REALLY don't want to know how much money the average Financial Institution wastes.
And yes, it is the Stock Holders investments they're wasting.

Either way... It's always somebody else's money.

 

[Kosh]

60 Insane Ways The Government is Spending Your Money

#22 If you can believe it, $10,000 of U.S. taxpayer money was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes up in Michigan.

To bad that picture did not display!

 

[eagle1462010]

You REALLY don't want to know how much money the average Financial Institution wastes.
And yes, it is the Stock Holders investments they're wasting.

Either way... It's always somebody else's money.

That's the problem.............Year after year the abuse and waste of money.............And they can find nothing to cut....................It is Insane.

 

[eagle1462010]

60 Insane Ways The Government is Spending Your Money

#22 If you can believe it, $10,000 of U.S. taxpayer money was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes up in Michigan.

To bad that picture did not display!

It did originally then went away.............Special protection to the one being ......................LOL

 

[eagle1462010]

60 Insane Ways The Government is Spending Your Money


#33 The General Services Administration spent $822,751 on a “training conference” for 300 west coast employees at the M Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.

The following is how the Washington Post described some of the wasteful expenses that happened during this “conference”…

Among the “excessive, wasteful and in some cases impermissable” spending the inspector general documented: $5,600 for three semi-private catered in-room parties and $44 per person daily breakfasts; $75,000 for a “team-building” exercise — the goal was to build a bicycle; $146,000 on catered food and drinks; and $6,325 on commemorative coins in velvet boxes to reward all participants for their work on stimulus projects. The $31,208 “networking” reception featured a $19-per-person artisanal cheese display and $7,000 of sushi. At the conference’s closing-night dinner, employees received “yearbooks” with their pictures, at a cost of $8,130.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

You REALLY don't want to know how much money the average Financial Institution wastes.
And yes, it is the Stock Holders investments they're wasting.

Either way... It's always somebody else's money.

That's the problem.............Year after year the abuse and waste of money.............And they can find nothing to cut....................It is Insane.

I assure you, they can find it.

They have no intention of cutting anything.

I'm amused that people scream CUT, when these institutions don't get substantial increases in their budgets!

All departments. 10% this year and 5% every year for 10 years. Attrition to eliminate unnecessary and redundant departments and services.

 

[eagle1462010]