government waste
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Economy
IRS union runs on taxpayer subsidies
While Congress takes its five-week vacation, the hard partisan work continues at the National Treasury Employees Union, subsidized by taxpayers. The Washington…
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Economy
House committee demands access to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau emails
Republicans are ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to grant access to over 60 emails regarding its decision to engage…
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Law and Government
Florida to receive massive gov’t bonus for wasting taxpayer money
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will award Florida with a $7 million dollar bonus for only wasting $47 million dollars…
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Economy
Columbia University to spend $5.7 million in taxpayer money on ‘climate change games’
“Games and game-like approaches motivate exploration and learning of complex material.” That, according to Campus Reform, is the wording in the…
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Quick Takes
Video: O-Care worker did one week’s worth in 5 months
Who says the public sector can’t work as efficiently as the private sector? Just look at the U.S. Postal Service.…
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Law and Government
Oregon joins list of states with failed Obamacare exchanges
With the recent announcement that Maryland had sunk a cool $90 million in taxpayer dollars down the tubes with a…
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Economy
Your tax dollars at work: Feds drop $700K on a climate change musical
It looks like the National Science Foundation has been handing out grants for some unorthodox research projects, according to House…
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Unyielding
Ka-ching! First lady heads to China on taxpayers’ dime with daughters and mom in tow
When a dating couple goes out for a meal and splits the tab, it’s known as a “Dutch treat.” What…
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Economy
Food stamps just got a whole lot sexier for Louisianans, who can use them for ‘adult purchases’
Barack Obama isn’t just the food stamp president. He’s the love stamp president — at least for recipients of the government hand-out living…
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Law and Government
Amtrak writers residency program: Authors travel free, taxpayers foot the bill
There’s no free lunch — at least not any more. There was a free lunch of sorts last December when…
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Law and Government
Feds spend $356K on ‘simulation facility’ to study risky cycling and pedestrian behavior
If you want to study risky behaviors among pedestrians and bicyclists you could always just go out and observe them.…
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Law and Government
Let’s stop paying Social Security benefits to the dead
Not all government waste is intentional. Some of it is just carelessness. Exhibit A is a December Government Accountability Office (GAO)…
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Economy
Your tax dollars at work: Fed shells out $175 million for penis pumps
Lest I be accused of making a mountain out of a molehill, the $175 mil was spread out over six…
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Economy
Report: Fed agencies trim millions in junkets
A quarter million dollars in modern Washington parlance is chump change. With the National Debt now achieving Everest-like proportions, even…
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Economy
Gov’t ‘waste’ takes on new definition, as feds pay to collect human urine
The next time you have to tinkle, don’t be too hasty to flush. There’s gold in them there “golden showers.”…
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Economy
Low information voter alert: Obama OKs unlimited food stamps during Thanksgiving
Twitter rumor takes on a life of it’s own… The 2010 presidential election had a particular politically correct phrase for…
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Economy
Inspector general’s report: IRS refunded $4 billion to identity thieves last year
The Internal Revenue Service may have scandalously denied tax-exempt status to conservative political action groups, which may have tilted the 2012…
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Economy
Reid-McConnell deal to avert default included $3 billion kickback for McConnell’s home state of Kentucky (Update)
The Wall Street Journal ran an item yesterday about a small Alaskan town whose mayor over the past 16 years has…
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Law and Government
Post Office to destroy ‘unsafe’ stamps
To honor Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” physical activity/exercise initiative and simultaneously celebrate the youth of America in healthy motion, the…
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Economy
Detroit taking bids on new $140M light rail project to be built on federal taxpayers’ dime
Detroit may be on the verge of financial ruin, but that hasn’t stopped the city from moving full-speed ahead on…
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Economy
Obama’s $5-a-year cell phone tax to fund high-speed internet in schools
Hey, buddy, can you spare a fin? You can? Great — how about a sawbuck? That’s no bum (or at…
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Law and Government
CA prison inmates can move to nicer digs … for $155 a night
What’s that you say? That your cell is cramped and your neighbors are noisy? That you have a view of…
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Law and Government
Millions in U.S. farm subsidies go to dead farmers
It was either Mark Twain or Benjamin Franklin (or Daniel Defoe) who said, “Nothing is certain except for death and…
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Law and Government
'No Labels’ group resolves to eliminate government waste in bipartisan way
Yesterday in a park across from the Capitol, I witnessed an event that signaled real hope and change in Washington. And it…
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Economy
Two House Dems propose a new national park — on the moon
Remember back in February when Barack Obama warned that America would feel the pain once sequestration kicked in? Among the federal…
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Economy
A graphic look at the federal government's MAF (money unaccounted for)
With a national debt approaching $17 trillion, Uncle Sam is tightening his belt and looking under the cushions for extra…
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Law and Government
Government waste through fraud: Federal employees file phony disability claims
How would you define chutzpah? Here are three anecdotes, any of which could appear in a dictionary definition as an illustrative…
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Politics
Prison poetry website awarded $75,000 NEA grant
Thanks to sequestration, there is not enough money in the government coffers to keep “the people’s house” (aka the White…
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Economy
The federal gov’t spent $400K developing high-tech tighty whities! (and they're not done)
As we get closer and closer to that magic $17 trillion dollar national debt level (OK it’s not really magic…
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Economy
Taxpayers drop $152,500 on 'voice therapy' for transsexuals
“Improving the lives of TG people who feel their voice is a great obstacle to living as their preferred gender…”…
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Economy
$700 million in Katrina relief money misused by recipients
This is why the nation can’t have nice things. A new report released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development reveals…
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Economy
Taxpayers spring for Biden's third vacation in past three months
In the wake of Biden’s half million dollar one nighter in Gay Paree… Despite dire warnings from the Obama Administration…
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Economy
Biden has been flying home to Delaware on weekends on taxpayer’s dime
What lasts 45 minutes, has a ridiculous weave, and costs taxpayers an uncool $13,200? It’s Vice President Joe Biden flying…
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Economy
Your tax dollars at work: $384,949 to study duck 'ding-dongs'
Did you know that some duck penises are corkscrew-shaped? Do you think anybody cares except for maybe another duck? Well…
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Economy
Outrage: Prison inmates collect unemployment benefits
Seriously now! Even the most entitlement-happy liberal has to find this story problematic. According to the website Philly.com, nearly 1,200…
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