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2011-03-01 Home Front: Politix

GAO Details Billions in Federal Waste --- Report Obtained by Fox News

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-03-01 10:47|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 No wonder the leftards hate Fox. The only network still reporting the news--the rest are in the bag for the donks and Obama. They have been for a long time.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-01 11:19|| 2011-03-01 11:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Back in college, circa '68, I had to study some aspect of federal bureaucracy from a list of options. I chose what I thought would be an easy one, Rat Control.

Turned out that there were at least, no one knew for sure, 24 agencies with some degree of control, regulations and budget for Rats.

Their were city rats, country rats, agricultural rats, diseased rats, electrical rats (cable eating), even army and navy rats. The waste was collosal and really was nothing more than a trough from which pork could be dispersed to the "chosen" few.

The more gov't controls the more cracks for the graft to fall through. It's just gotten worse over the last 40+ years.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-03-01 11:38|| 2011-03-01 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Rat control! Who would have thought that "rat control" would be another means of income redistribution?

Posted by JohnQC 2011-03-01 11:50|| 2011-03-01 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 JohnQC, Who would have thought that "rat control" would be another means of income redistribution?

All the "rats" in line for the boodle, either directly or indirectly through campaign contributions or kick-backs.

Posted by Alan Cramer 2011-03-01 13:05|| 2011-03-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 BTW, almost all this duplication is there because of statutory requirements, i.e., laws passed by Congress. It takes a fair amount of work to undo these statutes.

Posted by lord garth 2011-03-01 14:08|| 2011-03-01 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 "will make us all look like jackasses."

Why don't you build a Choo Choo train? That will make you look smart and intelligent.

Any time you need to cut one of 39 duplicate programs you have not counted yet, stir up the unions and build a railroad. no problem.

Posted by newc 2011-03-01 14:44|| 2011-03-01 14:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Unfortunately, it's beginning to become more and more obvious that the only way to straighten things out in Washington is to go back to basics. That's going to require repeating the 1775-81 revolution, only this time against the insiders in DC.

I wrote something about this on my website, Old Patriot's Pen, a few weeks ago. It gets worse. Between the "independent review agencies" and the different offices within the Cabinet, there are several HUNDRED duplicated activities, costing close to a half-TRILLION dollars a year. Congress has no intention of trimming any of THIS fat, which is one reason the majority of them need to do a Danny Deever.

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-03-01 14:56|| 2011-03-01 14:56|| Front Page Top

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