What the government does with YOUR money

[justaschmuck9]

Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go

In fiscal year 2014, the federal government will spend around $3.8 trillion. These trillions of dollars make up a considerable chunk - around 22 percent - of the US. economy, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That means that federal government spending makes up a sizable share of all...

www.nationalpriorities.org

1 trillion seconds = 31,000 years!

wow... SECONDS, not minutes!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Wastes it.

 

[rightwinger]

Wastes it.

OK

What is wasted?

 

[justaschmuck9]

OK

What is wasted?

wow... If you are as clueless as this post indicates and I say you are bc I have read other of your posts

you must have been living under a rock for the last several decades of your life..

This is basically what the govt does w/ your money (details to follow)

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

OK

What is wasted?

Money.

 

[justaschmuck9]

2020 Congressional Pig Book.

The Pig Book which I believe was started by Tom Coburn of OK

Here is a good example of how a govt program has eternal life


$10,000,000 for high energy cost grants within the Rural Utilities Service (RUS). The RUS grew out of the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Electrification Administration (REA) of the 1930s. The REA’s mission was to promote electrification to farmers and residents in communities where the cost of providing electricity was considered to be too expensive for local utilities. By 1981, 98.7 percent electrification and 95 percent telephone service coverage was achieved. Rather than declaring victory and shutting down the REA, the agency was transformed into the RUS, and expanded into other areas.

 

[progressive hunter]

OK

What is wasted?

19 Biggest Wastes of Tax Dollars

A study of beer koozies keep drinks cold, Air Force coffee mugs that cost $800, and military uniforms that would have the opposite effect of providing camouflage are just a few of the ways the government has spent billions of dollars on thing that make no sense. Take a look and see where else...

blog.cheapism.com

The Government Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars!

How Uncle Sam spends nearly $1 trillion of your money each year.

www.rd.com

Front Page Featured | MRCTV

www.cnsnews.com

 

[progressive hunter]

OK

What is wasted?

50 Examples of Government Waste

Soaring government spending and trillion-dollar budget deficits have brought fiscal responsibility -- and reducing government waste -- back onto the national agenda. President Obama recently identified 0.004 of 1 percent of the federal budget as wasteful and proposed eliminating this $140...

www.heritage.org

 

[justaschmuck9]

19 Biggest Wastes of Tax Dollars

A study of beer koozies keep drinks cold, Air Force coffee mugs that cost $800, and military uniforms that would have the opposite effect of providing camouflage are just a few of the ways the government has spent billions of dollars on thing that make no sense. Take a look and see where else...

blog.cheapism.com

The Government Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars!

How Uncle Sam spends nearly $1 trillion of your money each year.

www.rd.com

Front Page Featured | MRCTV

www.cnsnews.com

and yet somehow, we cannot find any way at all... the geniuses in DC can't figure it out

how to build housing for people who cannot afford $2000 a month rent..

we need some smarter geniuses.. or maybe some more compassionate ones..

 

[progressive hunter]

and yet somehow, we cannot find any way at all... the geniuses in DC can't figure it out

how to build housing for people who cannot afford $2000 a month rent..

we need some smarter geniuses.. or maybe some more compassionate ones..

not the governments job to build housing for people,,

 

[rightwinger]

50 Examples of Government Waste

Soaring government spending and trillion-dollar budget deficits have brought fiscal responsibility -- and reducing government waste -- back onto the national agenda. President Obama recently identified 0.004 of 1 percent of the federal budget as wasteful and proposed eliminating this $140...

www.heritage.org

1. The federal government made at least $72 billion in improper payments in 2008.[1]
2. Washington spends $92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.[2]
3. Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.[3]
4. Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them -- costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually -- fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.[4]
5. The Congressional Budget Office published a "Budget Options" series identifying more than $100 billion in potential spending cuts.[5]

About as far as I got
Generic “I don’t understand it so it must be waste” claims

 

[justaschmuck9]

not the governments job to build housing for people,,

but its the govt job to waste money on obsolete projects like the one I mentioned in a previous post?

its the govt job to waste money on studying the mating habits of fruit flies?

But people who need housing, that is not important... just the flies... they are important..

 

[Woodznutz]

Time, energy, and materials are wasted. Money remains. People who receive paychecks for working on gov't boondoggles don't think the money is 'wasted'. If one buys a new truck with those wages, where's the 'waste'? Many jobs in the private sector are no better than 'make work' jobs that waste time, energy, and materials that could be put to better use.

One man's waste is another man's paycheck.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Washington spends $92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP)

The government made a profit on TARP.

 

[progressive hunter]

but its the govt job to waste money on obsolete projects like the one I mentioned in a previous post?

its the govt job to waste money on studying the mating habits of fruit flies?

But people who need housing, that is not important... just the flies... they are important..

the government could stop wasting money and lower taxs so people can build their own houses,,

I know thats a complicated thing for some to understand bit do try anyway,,

 

[rightwinger]

but its the govt job to waste money on obsolete projects like the one I mentioned in a previous post?

its the govt job to waste money on studying the mating habits of fruit flies?

But people who need housing, that is not important... just the flies... they are important..

Do you have any understanding of the impact fruit flies have on our food supply?

How about Honey Bees?

 

[Woodznutz]

the government could stop wasting money and lower taxs so people can build their own houses,,

People have lost those skills. My brother built his first house while he was working and going to college. Today guys go to college so they don't have to do such work.

 

[justaschmuck9]

the government could stop wasting money and lower taxs so people can build their own houses,,

I know thats a complicated thing for some to understand bit do try anyway,,

if you are getting snarky with me, you have no legitimate reason...

(yeh, i Know, since when does that stop anyone..?)

 

[progressive hunter]

People have lost those skills. My brother built his first house while he was working and going to college. Today guys go to college so they don't have to do such work.

well you can always hire people like the majority of people do when building a house,,

 

[progressive hunter]

if you are getting snarky with me, you have no legitimate reason...

(yeh, i Know, since when does that stop anyone..?)

well next time dont make a dumbass comment like you did,,

its not the governments job to waste money,,