The Politics Racket

Excellent article on how politicians get rich in office: https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2017/06/01/the-politics-racket-n2334182

Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Card

While standing in line at the cash register today, I watched the lady in front of me pay for her purchases with an EBT card and then walk outside and get into a new Cadillac Escalade, a $75,000+ vehicle. Now, I do not know how or why she was able to get government assistance but my initial impression was that something was not right with our government's welfare system. Is it any wonder that so many people voted for a man that promised to cut government spending and social spending.

Heating subsidies for dead people?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/should_the_federal_government_be_providing_heating_subsidies_for_dead_people.html

Another taxpayer-funded energy company files for bankruptcy

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/10/another-taxpayer-funded-energy-company-files-for-bankruptcy.html 

Asparagus Pee

A taxpayer-funded study set to find out if people can smell their own "asparagus pee". Researchers at Harvard on two active studies that received over $3 million last year surveyed nearly 7,000 people to determine if their urine smelled funny after eating the vegetable. Click here for complete article.

Wastebook

Senator Jeff Flake has released Wastebook: PORKémon Go, the latest chronicle of government waste in a series started by former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn. The report covers 50 items and more than $5 billion in spending on outrageous government programs and frivolous projects. All of this waste is going on while our national debt is approaching 20 trillion dollars (that's $20,000,000,000,000) or ~$166,775 per taxpayer).

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Pentagon: $125 Billion In Waste

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/06/pentagon-reportedly-buried-study-exposing-125-billion-in-waste.html

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/