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Wasteful Spending and Abuse
The national debt is 7,200 times higher today than it was in 1900 (and still growing). Our government officials are writing checks that they simply cannot cover.
Our government must be run like a family balances its finances. In the process, we absolutely must eliminate the fraud, corruption, sweetheart deals, and the earmarks that cripple opportunities for growth.
No longer can we allow the government to write checks our country can’t cash. It’s time to overhaul this “business as usual” approach to overspending in Washington.
Each week on all our social media sites, we feature a real example of government waste and abuse.
You can read them by clicking below:
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This money goes in the tank.
5/5/14Smuttynose Brewing: $750,970.< Read more > -
This spending remains "up in the air."
4/28/14Grant for a pole dancing performance: $10,000.< Read more > -
The wrong lesson on spending.
4/21/14A bus stop with heated pavement for the Washington area: $1 million.< Read more > -
Waste and abuse that stinks to high heaven!
4/14/14Outhouse in Alaska: $98,670.< Read more > -
Something needs to "change."
4/7/14Vending machine for library books: $35,000.< Read more > -
One pricey musical on a 'changing climate.'
3/31/14National Science Foundation-$700,000.< Read more > -
A 'squirrelly" use of taxpayer's money.
3/17/14A Robo-squirrel: $325,000.< Read more > -
Dancing to a different beat.
3/10/14$516,000 for a video game on proms.< Read more > -
A billion dollar "taxing" situation with the IRS.
2/24/14$11 billion in Internal Revenue Service faulty refunds.< Read more > -
Government classes going to "pot."
2/17/14Moroccan pottery classes: $27 million.< Read more > -
Thousands for oil paintings of the "unknown."
2/10/14Oil Paintings For Obscure Officials: $400,000.< Read more > -
Money for Smokey.
2/3/14Smokey Bear promotions: $49,447.< Read more > -
Landing a half a million dollar airport deal.
1/6/14More than $450,000 was used to keep a rarely used airport open.< Read more > -
$1.3 million in funding to Pepsico from Dept. of Agriculture.
12/23/13This, despite Pepsico making $66 billion dollars in revenue.< Read more > -
Billions lost in unemployment fraud.
12/16/13Unemployment fraud costs the government $3.3 billion.< Read more > -
A vending machine that's "booked" all the time.
12/9/13A vending machine for library books: $35,000.< Read more > -
Millions to recruit Soviet scientists.
12/2/13Russian nuclear scientists: $15 million.< Read more > -
A "seedy" promotional tour.
11/25/13Alabama Watermelon Queen tour: $25,000.< Read more > -
"Where's the beef?"
11/18/13A Pentagon project dedicated to testing technology developed by the United States' allies that could improve the nation's war-fighting capabilities is using a French process to develop beef jerky in a form that resembles a fruit roll-up costing $639,884.< Read more > -
Administrators "in a pickle" over spending.
11/12/13$400,000 to promote "Pickleball."< Read more > -
You gotta hand this waste to the government!
11/4/13From 2009 to 2013, the U.S. government has spent $1,188,382 on puppetry-related expenses.< Read more > -
Should the government promote pet spaying and neutering?
10/28/13The City of Nashville, which received a $7.5 million "Communities Putting Prevention to Work" grant, promoted free pet spaying and neutering.< Read more > -
Millions spent on rounding up horses?
10/21/13The Department of Interior spends $76 million each year rounding up wild-horses that roam on public land.< Read more > -
Millions spent for an unused prison in Illinois.
10/14/13The department spent $165 million to purchase this prison, even though the Bureau of Prisons already had four brand-new federal prisons sitting empty and waiting to be put to use.< Read more > -
A picture is worth more than a 1,000 words.
10/7/13Taxpayers are funding paintings of high-ranking government officials at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece.< Read more > -
An expensive entertainment bill.
10/2/13Real government waste: $1.5 million dollars was used at the Department of Justice to help the entertainment industry.< Read more > -
Just "plane" taxpayer abuse?
9/30/13$11 million on luxury, private jets For D.O.J. political appointees.< Read more > -
$3 million dollars of peddled money for bikes?
9/23/13The Cascade Bicycle Club Education Foundation received a portion of the $3 million grant awarded to Seattle and King County Public Health and used the taxpayer dollars to "improve the walking and biking environment.< Read more > -
More than $500,000 for pet shampoo?
9/16/13Sergeant's Pet Care Products, a company with $140 million in revenue, received a Community Development Block Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for capital improvements, with which the company wanted to buy machinery to make pe< Read more > -
Pizza parties and plaques?
9/9/13The Department used $10,000 of its grant funding for a pizza party and plaques.< Read more > -
A wildlife refuge that has no life?
9/2/13A new visitors center in Bismarck, ND, for wildlife refuge cost taxpayers $6.1 million.< Read more >