The Obamas only want kids in the WH when they can use them as props to stand behind King Barry, as he signs yet another bill grabbing our rights and freedoms away.
Of course, it's just a typical cheap PR stunt, same kind that unions pull each time they want a budget or tax increase. They don't cut the things that need to be cut -- they cut whatever will get the most news. This one backfired.
And your recommendation of "things that need to be cut"?
Well let's start here for example!!
The USA Federal government spent:
- $
2.6 million to make sure prostitutes in China drink less on the job.
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$1.44 million in federal funds estimating the size of the population and examining the social milieu of male prostitutes in Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City,
- Washington spends
$25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
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Studying pig poop. The EPA awarded a $141,450 grant under the Clean Air Act to fund a Chinese study on swine manure
- a $1.2 million grant to the United Nations for clean fuel promotion.
- Conferences for government employees. In 2008 & 2009 alone, the Department of Justice spent $121 million to host or participate in 1,832 conferences.
- U.S. government has spent $1.5 million to preserve some artifacts left during the hostile Indian occupation of Alcatraz Island more than four decades go.
While the State Department saved money on security in Libya, it somehow managed to find $5.6 million in 2011 to support pressing cultural preservation
needs in dozens of foreign countries.
Here are some of the dire projects funded by U.S. tax dollars that perhaps could be better spent on securing U.S. embassies in hostile Arab countries.
- Uncle Sam doled out
$750,000 to restore a 16th-century tomb complex in India,
$700,000 to conserve ruins in Tanzania,
$600,000 for the temple of the winged lions in Jordan and
$450,000 for the conservation of a 10th century temple in Cambodia. Those were just the big ticket projects.
Hundreds of thousands more went to smaller causes throughout the world.
I mean do you REALLY think spending $2.6 million IN CHINA studying drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes is essential??
These wasteful spending examples ARE just the TIP of the total WASTE that the Federal Govt. has spent our payroll and income TAX dollars!
The Inspector GENERALS identify $67 billion in WASTE some like the above!
a Committee report released today revealed waste-cleanup recommendations from non-partisan Inspector Generals working across the federal government, which would save taxpayers
$67 billion per year, have not been implemented.
Backlogs of unimplemented recommendations have grown to
16,906.
President Obama should listen to the recommendations of his Administrations own Inspector Generals and work with Congress
to implement common sense spending cuts that target wasteful and poorly performing programs instead of settling for the furloughs
and service disruptions happening under the sequester.
Education and Transportation: We Have No Idea How Much Money We Spend on Conferences - Katie Pavlich
