DIRTY SPENDING SECRETS OF LIBERAL WASHINGTON...

 
The government really sucks at spending . There are many examples and details, but the Heritage Foundation found dozens of great examples of poor spending choices by our government. Here’s another link in a slideshow format. I don’t agree that all of these were wasteful, and that some are taken out of context; but some of these look really bad are were the result of porked bills and poor planning. Below are but a few...

How much money did Washington recently spend to train Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job?

·       Incredibly, Washington is spending $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job. This is the kind of wasteful spending that President Obama and Congress have stubbornly refused to cut. Instead, they planned to raise taxes on families and entrepreneurs by trillions of dollars! Only action by citizens like you will break the Washington liberals of this kind of frivolous splurging.

Each day, how many U.S. Postal Service workers are given specific orders to do . . . nothing at all?

·       Because of overstaffing, the U.S. Postal Service selects 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. The annual cost is $50 million! This is just one of many dirty spending secrets . . . yet liberal politicians say they can’t find much to cut from the federal budget.

How much money does Washington spend annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties?

 ·       $25 BILLION every year and growing. These are not national parks, but property sitting idle with no immediate positive benefit to the public. Yet we are pouring $25 billion into maintaining them through federal employees and contractors. Despite such largesse, politicians keep telling us they can’t find enough waste to justify spending cuts and want to raise your taxes instead

TRUE or FALSE: A government study found that one-fifth of all federal programs—costing $123 billion per year—do absolutely no good for the people they serve.

·       It’s true! Government auditors spent five years—between 2004–2009—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. Things have hardly improved since then! It’s another case of Washington taxing you not because it needs so much money . . . but so Washington liberals can expand their power and privilege.
·       Almost half of all government credit card purchases are improper or fraudulent. Including gambling, mortgage payments, $167/person meals for USPS employees
·       Former House speaker Dennis Hastert collects $40k/month for work expenses, despite being employed today as a lobbyist
·       Some federal employees refuse to fly coach, costing us $100+million a year in upgrades
·       DOD wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets when they were refundable

The 2009 federal “stimulus” plan, which cost $787 billion and failed to stimulate the economy, has spent your money on projects including; Mascot costumes, Electric golf carts
A university study of how much alcohol college freshmen women require before agreeing to sex.

·       It’s all of these—and much more. The stimulus plan has mainly stimulated the size and reach of Washington, not the American economy. But the stimulus’s failure has led many Washington liberals to call for—wait for it—additional stimulus! And of course, they can’t seem to find many programs to cut, so to pay for the added stimulus, they are calling for still more taxes.
The Bad News
The next dirty spending secret is that many Washington liberals are determined to keep spending more, raising the federal debt (already more than $14 trillion and nearly 100% of our Gross Domestic Product), and increasing taxes.

The Good News..

You can do something about it..In 2012 you can change the Liberal Senate and Executive Branch of YOUR government. HEY!! There's more good news you don't have to wait until 2012 contact your elected representative in Washington TODAY and demand they get on with the program of cutting wasteful spending..AFTER ALL IT'S YOUR DOLLARS THEY SPENDING FREVIOUSLY.