Big Govt waste and duplication

Big US Sugar Daddy Government

Waste and duplication. Bigger than ever. Sinking is a sea of red ink with no accountability.


Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. - - - Ronald Reagan 


No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! - - - Ronald Reagan 


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Waste

Feds Fritter $433,577 To Determine If Movies Feature FAT PEOPLE

… In their application for the generous grant, the researchers claimed that a “preliminary” study “examined movies and found top-grossing G- and PG-rated movies depict unhealthy eating and sedentary activity as the norm, while simultaneously mocking overweight characters.”

… in January 2014, European scientists with way too much time on their hands were reduced to discovering that dogs tend to position themselves in alignment with the earth’s magnetic field before they take every big, steamy dump. [dailycaller.com] 12/25/14

Waste
Wasteful Programs that Make You Want To Pull Your Hair Out … For example … Wasteful Spending Program #1: $14 million on Catfish Inspections. “Government doesn’t have a spending problem.”- President Obama, Jan. 2013 [townhall.com] 4/19/13

Waste

$95 Billion. New GAO report identifies $95 billion in overlapping programs. For example … Federal education assistance is fragmented over 21 programs. The duplication and fragmentation can cost government more than $170 billion. [washingtonexaminer.com] 4/9/13

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Our Big Sugar Daddy Gov seldom if ever sees a program that needs to be eliminated. Too many pockets to line with free US Taxpayer money. 

Waste

STUDY: WASTE COULD FUND UP TO 45,000 YEARS OF WHITE HOUSE TOURS … a "waste list" totaling $42,642,721,597 from NRCC findings. Obama continues his revenge by playing the fake Sequester crisis over and over. Some of its expenditures include:

• Dancing iPhone robots–$547,430: "Part of a $547,430 grant from the National Science Foundation went to the development of a dancing robot that connects to an iPhone."

• Talking urinal cakes–$10,000: "Federal funds were used to purchase 400 anti-drunk driving talking urinal cakes."

• YouTube video contest–$106,000: "$106,000 was spent on a YouTube video contest to promote eating fruits and vegetables." 

Cupcakes–$2,000,000: "10 cupcake stores received $2 million in taxpayer-funded loans."

• "Healthy food" initiative - $32,000,000: "$32 million was spent to increase access to healthy foods in low-income communities with no measurable result." 

• Robot squirrels–$325,000: "Researchers received part of a grant to construct robotic squirrels to test if they are attacked by rattlesnakes the same way real squirrels are."  [breitbart.com] 3/30/13

Waste

Obscene Government Waste … For example: # The government spends $1.7 billion for maintenance on empty buildings it owns, although some sources put the figure at closer to $25 billion … and eight more examples. [factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com] 3/2/13

Waste

Bonuses. US Postal Service handing out large bonuses despite their huge budget problems and deficits. No outcry from Dems nor Big Dem Media as when private corporations handed out their equally deplorable bonuses to debt creating executives. 11/30/21

Waste

News Flash: Big Dem Gov and Big GOP Gov seldom cut programs. They just continue adding more programs, more departments and more staff.

Waste

14 months to fail. The Amonix solar manufacturing plant in North Las Vegas, heavily financed under an Obama administration energy initiative, has closed its 214,000-square-foot facility 14 months after it opened. Officials at Amonix headquarters in Seal Beach, Calif., have not responded to repeated calls for comment this week. ... This company received a U.S. tax credit of $6 million and a $15.6 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department in 2007, according to Jen Stutsman, an agency spokeswoman. [businessweek.com] 7/18/12 
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Still 80% success rate for Romney and 0% for Obama. Perhaps Obama just needs another four years and 40 more years of experience in business.


Waste

Obama: Put more people on welfare. ... The federal government actually runs 126 separate anti-poverty programs managed by 13 different agencies. 33 different housing programs: 21 programs to provide food, 8 healthcare programs, 27 cash or general assistance programs. ... It's hard to find a government department that doesn't run an anti-poverty program … and it is rife with waste and redundancy. [foxbusiness.com] 7/20/12

Waste

Big Dem Gov agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, NIST MEP, spent between $3 to $5 million dollars on an annual conference at a lavish resort near Walt Disney World in Florida. [dailycaller.com] 7/12/12

Waste

$18B-b-billion Federal job training program has waste. … In one state, workforce agency employees took more than 100 gambling trips to casinos mostly during work hours. [thenewamerican.com] 5/19/12 

Big US Gov Program Duplication costing US Taxpayers B-b-billions. [personalliberty.com] 2/29/12

For more details on Big Gov Duplication, read an article in the Washington Post on 2/28/12. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Obama and family take $4 million Christmas ... make that Happy Holidays vacation in Hawaii. December 2011

Wastebook 2011. Report on wasteful government spending by Senator Tom Coburn [R-OK]. Read about 100 great examples. Wind turbines. Pancakes. Bridge to nowhere. Rock house. Aid to China. Etc.

More Big Gov Waste tracked by Neal Boortz [boortz.com]

$535 million. Solundra. White House-Backed Solar Energy Company Goes Belly Up.

Living like royalty. Government extravagance by Michelle Obama [not a government official] and Nancy Pelosi [WND and Judicial Watch] 8/25/11 Keeping tabs of government waste and spending for us.

National Institute of Health [NIH] Funding = wasteful spending. Some of the outrageous findings that your tax money is being spent on:

• Measuring the sexual anatomy of gay men, whose findings determined which men were "tops" and which men were "bottoms"

• Studying the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among Chinese prostitutes -- some as young as 14 years old!

• $2 million to the Chinese government to study parasites that affect water buffalo

• Mailing in toenails to measure their nicotine content at $154,500

• Almost half a million dollars asking 500 subway riders how subway noise affected them [Traditional Values Coalition]

WHY? Dept of labor makes smartphone app to tell workers when it is hot outside. Cost not released. Not contracted out to business in the business of apps either. [DailyCaller.com] 8/18/11

Non-Campaign Bus Tour. Obama does non-political, non-campaign black bus tour. Non-Campaign stops in MN IA IL, current political hot spots, but this is not a political campaign tour. Non-political **Canadian** buses [3] cost $1+ million each plus additional upgrades. **Canadian** made buses paid for by US Taxpayers. 8/16/11

$20 million federal grant in Seattle = 14 jobs = $1,428,571.43 per job created. Democrat economics, trickle down, flood or what? [Human Events]

Airline Subsidy = Big Gov Waste. Rural low passenger airlines rake in Million$ to fly their routes even when there are "no" passengers. Transportation received $45 B-b-billion in subsidies in 2008. [Yahoo and AP]

More Big Gov redundancy. There are at least 55 offices, departments and commissions devoted to civil rights and diversity throughout the federal government...

• Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights cost taxpayers $46.7 million;
• Department of Agriculture’s Office of Civil Rights - $24 million;
• Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division - $145.4 million;

• Department of Transportation’s Office of Civil Rights - $9.66 million;
• Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights - $102 Million;
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - $367 million
[Daily Caller] Click Here to read more.

CAGW. Citizens Against Government Waste.

Report titled “Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue,” identifies 34 agencies, offices, and initiatives that provide similar or identical services to the same populations, along with 47 programs that are either wasteful or inefficient. It includes 18 nutrition and food assistance programs, 47 job retraining programs, and 80 economic development programs, along with $77 billion of waste at the Department of Defense and $125 billion in improper payments by government agencies, among many others.

Click Here for the article. Download the 345 page “Report” from GOA, General Accounting Office.

See also their annual Congressional Pig Book. Click Here to read a synopsis of their work. The spending will boggle your mind.