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Archive for the ‘Government Waste’ Category

Monitor The Earmarks

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Image by Getty Images via Daylife"][/caption] I've posted over and over again about wasteful government spending. It drives me mad that we the people waste valuable time squabbling over the funding for programs that help people while our leaders in Washington D.C. waste our valuable dollars on ...

Vote Sale on eBay

So some 19 year old college kid in Minnesota offers his vote for sale on eBay and... what's the punchline again?--oh yes, and he faces 5 years in prison plus $10,000 in fines. I get that the idea of selling your vote like this can offend some people. Never mind that ...

There’s A Reason Candidates Are All Talking About Change

From the Presidential race to Congressional and even local campaigns everybody seems to be talking about "change", and I've finally figured out what they mean. It isn't change as in "let's change the world"; that's so 1984... it's change as in "we want your loose change". Oh, yeah, "and your ...

If This Is The Tax Man, Audit Me!

Government Employees Buying iPods And Lingerie With Tax Dollars According to a report by the Government Accountability Office, almost half of the purchases made by federal employees using government issued SmartPay credit cards were improper transactions. It specifically mentioned the purchases of iPods, laptops, digital cameras, gambling transactions, online dating service fees, ...

Wasteful Washington Spending

The GOP is diagnosed with ADD (America's Deficit Disorder) Just last weekend top GOP presidential hopefuls and southern politicians attended the Southern Republican Leadership Conference and asserted (to every journalist and camera that could be found) that republicans were going to become "more thrifty with taxpayers' money." "We've been hit with unexpected ...