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by Michael Reagan
Uncle Sam is spending a lot of your tax dollars on programs that do the exact same thing as other federal programs, and you are paying the tab, a shocking new report shows.
According to a report by the watchdog Government Accounting Office (GAO), Uncle Sam hosts 47 job-training programs, 44 of which do the same things. The federal government also runs 80 programs for what it calls the “transportation disadvantaged.” Count … Read the Rest of this Post
by Ben Johnson
Although the United States is $13 trillion in debt, mandatory spending alone exceeds tax revenues, and the Congressional Budget Office is warning of a coming U.S. “fiscal crisis,” Congress felt no need to trim spending. The just-adjourned 111th Congress headed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi added more to the national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has published his collection of the 100 … Read the Rest of this Post
by Michael Reagan
If Sen. Mitch McConnell’s pledge to get behind the movement to ban the cynical practice of earmark spending is any indication that Republicans heard the message voters sent them in the recent Congressional elections, the GOP is off to a good start.
It’s about time. Over the years members of Congress have acquired a lot of bad habits and the use of so-called earmarks — the Senate tacking on spending measures to … Read the Rest of this Post
Posted in Floyd Reports, Opinion
Tagged Government Spending, Government Waste, Republican Party, Republicans
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The American people often complain that the government “isn’t listening.” The Obama administration continually proves it is listening intently to every word uttered about it, and monitoring the speakers. The latest outrage involves the federal government awarding $18,000 in taxpayer dollars to John Brooks Rice to monitor media coverage of Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill. Rice watched news reports from May to July on behalf of Obama, noting whether reporters portrayed his … Read the Rest of this Post
by Ben Johnson
A new Senate report reveals the Obama administration spent nearly half-a-million dollars in stimulus funds to purchase recycling bins implanted with microchips, designed to monitor private citizens’ recycling levels.
Republican Senators Tom Coburn, R-OK, and John McCain, R-AZ, tracked 100 misuses of stimulus funds in a publication entitled “Summertime Blues,” released just weeks ago. (It is far from a comprehensive list.)
They found the administration gave $500,000 to the city of Dayton, … Read the Rest of this Post
Posted in Floyd Reports, News Reports, Opinion
Tagged American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), big Brother, Charlotte, Conservative Party (UK), Dayton, Dayton Daily News, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, England, Environmentalism, Gordon Brown, Government Spending, Government Waste, John McCain, Labour Party (UK), North Carolina, Obama, Ohio, Pay As You Throw, pork spending, Stimulus, Surveillance, Tara Servatius, Tom Coburn, United Kingdom (UK), Wasteful Spending, WHIO-TV
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