Recount

Federal Fumbles: $247 Billion In Wasteful Spending

https://www.lankford.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Federal_Fumbles_2016.pdf

Obama’s golf weekend with Tiger Woods cost taxpayers more than $3.6 million

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/26/obama-golf-weekend-tiger-woods-2013-more-36m/

Political Hypocrisy

Most politicians have a "do as I say, not as I do" mentality. Obama tapped Joe Biden to head a program to cut government waste. Ironically, here is an excerpt from the book The First Family Detail by Ronald Kessler showing Biden spending over a million dollars of taxpayer money on personal trips from Washington DC to his home in Delaware. Before becoming VP, he use to take Amtrak.

Minneapolis taxpayers must pay public housing rent for Somalis that spend their income on travel back to Somalia

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/minneapolis_taxpayers_must_pay_public_housing_rent_for_somalis_that_spend_their_income_on_travel_back_to_somalia.html

Feds spend $1.5B a year on PR, advertising

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/06/watchdog-feds-spend-1-5b-year-on-pr-advertising.html

Feds Spend $56,698 Studying Whether College Kids Eat Junk Food When They Drink

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-56698-studying-whether-college-kids-eat-junk-food-drink/

Feds Spend $911,056 Studying the Drinking Habits of Lesbian Couples

"The National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $1 million on a study of lesbian couples to see if stress makes them drink too much. The grant awarded to Old Dominion University will involve lesbians filling out daily diaries about their romantic relationships to determine what causes them to drink."

For more info, visit http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend-911056-studying-drinking-habits-lesbian-couples/

$136 Billion in Improper Payments

"The Government Accountability Office reported that $136.7 billion dollars were spent by federal agencies on “improper payments” during fiscal 2015, but the actual total was likely higher." 

For additional information, visit http://freebeacon.com/issues/agencies-reported-136-billion-improper-payments/.

First Family Vacations - $70,880,035

Judicial Watch has a list of Obama's vacations and associated costs to the American taxpayer at http://www.judicialwatch.org/obamas-vacations/. Also, it should also be noted that every Air Force One flight emits tons of CO2 into the atmosphere (5 gallons of jet fuel for every mile it flies — emitting over 21 pounds of CO2 per gallon).

ObamaCare - $55 Billion In Waste

Excellent article on ObamaCare waste at http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obamacare-turns-6-55-billion-in-waste-so-far/.

$8 Million Dollar Vacation

"Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received expense records from the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03. These new expenses bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33. The Secret Service waited nearly two years to produce the requested numbers to Judicial Watch... The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78."

Rand Paul Address

I just watched Rand Paul address Congress regarding government waste. Here are some excerpts:

• We spent $300,000 last year studying whether or not Japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine. 
• We spent several hundred thousand dollars studying whether or not we can relieve stress in Vietnamese villagers by having them watch television reruns.
• We spent $800,000 in the last couple of years developing a televised cricket league for developing Afghanistan. Do you know how many people have a television in Afghanistan? One in 10,000 people.
• We spent $150,000 last year on yoga classes for federal employees. So not only do we pay them nearly one and a half times as much as the private sector employees, we give them yoga classes.
• We spent $250,000 last year inviting 24 kids from Pakistan to go to space camp in Alabama. We borrow money from China to send it to Pakistan. It's crazy. It's ridiculous. And it should stop.
• We spent a half million-dollars last year and the year before developing a menu for when we colonize Mars. We sent a bunch of college students to Hawaii to study this. $5,000 apiece we paid them. They got two weeks all expenses paid in Hawaii. And you know what a bunch of college kids came up with for the menu for Mars? Pizza.

Our national debt is now over $18 trillion dollars and rising; that's $154,000+ per taxpayer. Is it any wonder that people are angry and frustrated by Congress and politicians who care only about their own self-interest.

$125 Billion

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/18/editorial-the-galloping-pace-of-government-waste/

Waste of Tax Dollars

The president and first lady took two separate planes to California on the same day for separate events on taxpayer money:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4110437643001/greta-shame-on-obama-mrs-obama-for-wasting-your-money/?playlist_id=940325740001#sp=show-clips.