MR2-Sooner86
6/10/2011, 01:01 PM
None at all.
$25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.
Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them -- costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually -- fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve. List of all Federal Programs/Agencies (http://www.akdart.com/gov1.html)
$500,000 given Alaskan Airlines to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.
$2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
$50 million for the U.S. Postal Service to select an average of 1,125 employees daily to sit in empty “standby rooms.” They are not allowed to work, read, play cards, watch television, or do anything.
$92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.
A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations.
$3.9 million for the Securities and Exchange Commission to rearrange desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
$998,798 for the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.
A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns.
$146 million for the refusal of many federal employees to fly coach.
$126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
Federal investigators have launched more than 20 criminal fraud investigations related to the TARP financial bailout.
10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.
$350,000 for the FCC to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.
Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.
$13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another $7.8 billion cannot be accounted for.
Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, "Girls Gone Wild" videos, and at least one sex change operation.
Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.
$3 billion re-sanding beaches -- even as this new sand washes back into the ocean.
$100 million on unused flight tickets by the Defense Department and it never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.
$60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.
Over one recent 18-month period, Air Force and Navy personnel used government-funded credit cards to charge at least $102,400 on admission to entertainment events, $48,250 on gambling, $69,300 on cruises, and $73,950 on exotic dance clubs and prostitutes.[
$50,000 apiece for paintings of congressmen.
$20 million for "commemoration of success" celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit.
$1.3 million per month for the National Institutes of Health to rent a lab that it cannot use.
$2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.
$13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers.
$34 billion worth of Department of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste, fraud, and abuse.
$1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.
Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education.
$2 billion annually for select farmers not to farm their land.
Yeah, we need all of this, and more, in our budget. Work hard, your tax dollars need to go to good use.
$25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.
Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them -- costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually -- fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve. List of all Federal Programs/Agencies (http://www.akdart.com/gov1.html)
$500,000 given Alaskan Airlines to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.
$2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
$50 million for the U.S. Postal Service to select an average of 1,125 employees daily to sit in empty “standby rooms.” They are not allowed to work, read, play cards, watch television, or do anything.
$92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.
A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations.
$3.9 million for the Securities and Exchange Commission to rearrange desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
$998,798 for the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.
A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns.
$146 million for the refusal of many federal employees to fly coach.
$126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
Federal investigators have launched more than 20 criminal fraud investigations related to the TARP financial bailout.
10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.
$350,000 for the FCC to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.
Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.
$13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another $7.8 billion cannot be accounted for.
Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, "Girls Gone Wild" videos, and at least one sex change operation.
Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.
$3 billion re-sanding beaches -- even as this new sand washes back into the ocean.
$100 million on unused flight tickets by the Defense Department and it never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.
$60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.
Over one recent 18-month period, Air Force and Navy personnel used government-funded credit cards to charge at least $102,400 on admission to entertainment events, $48,250 on gambling, $69,300 on cruises, and $73,950 on exotic dance clubs and prostitutes.[
$50,000 apiece for paintings of congressmen.
$20 million for "commemoration of success" celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit.
$1.3 million per month for the National Institutes of Health to rent a lab that it cannot use.
$2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.
$13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers.
$34 billion worth of Department of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste, fraud, and abuse.
$1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.
Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education.
$2 billion annually for select farmers not to farm their land.
Yeah, we need all of this, and more, in our budget. Work hard, your tax dollars need to go to good use.