Posts Tagged ‘waste’
Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi’s in-flight ‘food, booze’
By Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily, January 29, 2010
Speaker’s trips ‘are more about partying than anything else’
It reads like a dream order for a wild frat party: Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
But that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for “in-flight
services” – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That’s almost $1,000 per week.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Judicial Watch, which investigates and prosecutes government corruption, show Pelosi incurred expenses of some $2.1 million for her use of Air Force jets for travel over that time.
“Speaker Pelosi has a historyof wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said today. “And these documents suggest the Speaker’s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123472
Improper US Government Payments Hit $98 Billion
By: Reuters, Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009
Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday.
Over half the mistakes were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and although some of the deterioration reflected stricter measurement, it also showed the need for healthcare reform, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag told reporters.
Improper payments in the Medicare and Medicaid programs totaled $55 billion in fiscal 2009, according to documents provided by OMB.
Read more at http://www.cnbc.com/id/34009267
U.S. Will Pay $2.6 Million to Train Chinese Prostitutes to Drink Responsibly on the Job
by Edwin Mora, Tuesday, May 12, 2009
(CNSNews.com) — The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will pay $2.6 million in U.S. tax dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job. Dr. Xiaoming Li, the researcher conducting the program, is director of the Prevention Research Center at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. The grant, made last November, refers to prostitutes as “female sex workers”–or FSW–and their handlers as “gatekeepers.” . . . Li said his study is being done in China rather than the U.S. because prostitution occurs with alcohol use in the United States like it does in China, Americans will be able to benefit from the project’s findings.
Read more at http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=47976
(The above is one of) 50 Examples of Government Waste
Read more examples at http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/08/50-examples-of-government-waste/
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These are just a few examples of why we have a TRILLION dollar deficit (along with TARP etc.)