Congress Will Honor Dick Cheney With A Statue In The U.S. Capitol
• huffingtonpost.comAs Vice President, Cheney served as president of the Senate.
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Government Waste
Confessions of a Public Servant
• Lew Rockwell - Mr. XYou're looking for a job. You want to get paid several times your worth, come and go when you please, work only when you feel like it, take as long a lunch as you want, and get ten paid holidays per year and six weeks paid vacation per year. There
A Gasbag by Any Other Name Remains a Waste of Money
• https://www.lewrockwell.comHey, did you know we spent over $2.7 billion dollars on some blimps the military wanted? No, I'm serious, I'm not making this up.
Report: Pentagon Suspends Syrian Rebel Training Program
• antiwar.com$500 Million Program an 'Embarrassing Failure'
U.S. Postal Service Has Not Earned a Profit in Almost a Decade
• http://freebeacon.com, BY, Ali MeyerThe government-owned enterprise has lost $51.7 billion since 2007
Watchdog finds widespread fraud at U.S. Census Bureau
• washingtonexaminer.comDozens of government employees at the U.S. Census Bureau have been billing taxpayers for time they never actually worked, wasting more than $1 million.
The LAPD has a Tesla now
• theverge.comIt's one of 290 electric vehicles coming to LA's city fleet
Crippling Technology
• Lew Rockwell - Eric PetersSo much would be possible - if it weren't for the government.
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08-21-15 -- Ernest Hancock returns after attending the League of AZ Cities and Towns Conf (VIDEO)
Program Date:Ernest Hancock goes over the his experience at the League of AZ Cities and Towns Conference held in Tucson this past week. He provides a report on how the wheels turn behind the scenes of government at the local level and how our liberties are not ev
Trump Bashes $4 Billion In IRS Refunds To Illegals
• ForbesIt sounds crazy, and yet one source says Trump is the one being unfair, taking this out of context, and not counting their taxes paid. Bear in mind that undocumented immigrants cannot legitimately get Social Security numbers.
Feds Spend Half a Million Dollars Texting Rural Americans to Stop Dipping
• freebeacon.comThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending nearly a half million dollars to text rural Americans motivational messages so they can stop dipping.
Stunning move: NYPD to spend $4.5 million on more Tasers
• http://www.rt.comThe New York Police Department will spend some $4.5 million to buy a host of new Tasers for its officers, the New York Post reported.
Feds Funding Study to Examine Washingtonians' Bodily Waste for Marijuana Use
• http://thefreethoughtproject.comBack in December we reported that authorities are beginning to use 'sewage epidemiology' to track drug use in communities. This method analyzes sewage from wastewater treatment plants for certain metabolites, essentially looking through our bodil
NY borrowing $5M for 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' studio renovations
• syracuse.comState leaders are planning to borrow $5 million to help CBS pay for renovations at the Ed Sullivan Theatre, the home for the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," according to state records.
Israeli Cobras gifted to Jordan for 'border security'
• ynetnews.comUS source says about 16 decommissioned attack helicopters given to Jordan last year to fend off potential attacks from ISIS.
There's an $8 billion defense contractor mega-deal reportedly in the works
• http://www.businessinsider.com, ReutersLockheed Martin Corp, the largest U.S. weapons maker, has agreed to buy United Technologies Corp's Sikorsky Aircraft unit, the maker of Black Hawk helicopters, for over $8 billion, a source familiar with the negotiations said on Sunday.
John Oliver - How Billionaire Sports Owners Use Your Tax Money to Build Absurd Stadiums
• TruthDigMany Americans have no idea that the ostentatious swimming pools and aquariums featured in some sports stadiums (not to mention the stadiums themselves) were constructed using public funds. In his latest monologue, the "Last Week Tonight" host hi
Feds spent $2 million to have wives nag men about chewing tobacco
• http://www.washingtontimes.com, By Kellan HowellSince 2012 the government has spent nearly $2 million on a campaign to get women to nag the men in their lives to quit using smokeless tobacco.
The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report
• foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.comWe've heard of significant shortcomings before with the fighter jet that's supposed to be America's future, but this is just as bad as it gets.
Shock Report: Your Taxes Subsidize Dirty Oil Corporations By $5.3 TRILLION
• True ActivistNews like this makes you wonder whether the people running this planet actually want it (or us) to survive at all.
Report Reveals $8.5 Trillion Missing From Pentagon Budget
• http://crooksandliars.comYahoo Money' The Daily Ticker is reporting that is has discovered a Reuters investigation that reveals $8.5 trillion that's trillion with a "T" in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996 that has never been accounted
Iraqi Troops Abandon US-Made Tanks, Artillery to ISIS in Ramadi Loss
• antiwar.comISIS Once Again Secures Large Number of Weapons
U.S. Funded Industrial Park in Afghanistan Found With Only One Business...
• http://jonathanturley.orgU.S. Funded Industrial Park in Afghanistan Found With Only One Business and No Electricity . . . And Missing Records
The Wild Government Projects You're Funding With Your Taxes
• Wired.comThe us government's budget is a bottomless pit. Every year, you suck it up and pay income taxes into a $1.5 trillion pot.
The Party Washington Doesn't Want You To See
• nerdpromthemovie.comFrom its humble beginnings as a one night affair, the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner has grown into a nearly week long celebration of press, power players, celebrities and parties. A Politico reporter, Patrick Gavin, quit
Analysts visit websites frequented by jihadists in search of encrypted messages hidden in porn
• news.com.auIN order to maintain national security, the NSA has set up a surveillance room specifically for watching hardcore pornography.
The Pentagon's $10-billion bet gone bad
• http://graphics.latimes.comTrying to fashion a shield against a sneak missile attack, military planners gambled on costly projects that flopped, leaving a hole in U.S. homeland defense.
Obama Admin's New Spending Website Rolls Back Transparency
• http://freebeacon.comData previously available at click of a button now a needle in a haystack
Texas Town Fires Entire Police Department, Crime Drops By 61%
• Prison PlanetReplaced all cops with private security
Truth? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Truth
• http://www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig RobertConsider the "war on terror." According to a Nobel economist and a Harvard University budget expert, Washington's 14 years of war on terror has cost Americans a minimum of $6 trillion.
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