YOU ARE KIDDING, RIGHT?
I am a small business owner working out of my home. As such, every action taken by our government affects the success of my business. For far too long, everything the government does has hurt my business and this is true for most people across the country. Here are some examples:
Every year, Senator Tom Coburn
of Oklahoma publishes a report on the wasteful spending by our government. This money is not the government’s money, it
is OUR money that they took from us through taxes. Money WE earned by going to work or working
our businesses. We spent the hours,
days, weeks, months and years earning this money just so we could turn it over
to the government and they can waste it.
- $297 MILLION – for a
blimp to be used by the Army to fly for up to three weeks at a time to record
what was happening on the ground. It was
supposed to fly over the battlefield
in Afghanistan by December 2011.
It actually flew one time in New Jersey in August 2012.
As usual with the government, there were cost overruns and the blimp could only stay up 4 – 5 day, not three weeks. Now, the war in Afghanistan is ending, so the project is closed.
- $325,525 – a study on heated marital arguments. Really! This is not government’s purpose OR any of their business. If anyone really cared, they should have paid for the study, not us. (By the way, the government paid for this study to tell women they need to calm down faster during arguments.)
- $1 MILLION – a bus stop in Washington, D.C. has heated benches and sidewalks and provides wireless service.
- $700,000 – upkeep of 28
acres in Brussels of the privately-owned home of U.S. Ambassador to NATO.
Why am I working so hard every day to pay for the privately-owned gardens of a guy living in Brussels? He owns the place, let HIM pay for the upkeep.
- $914,000
– a study on romance. Yup, romance. Romance in novels, comics, films, advice
books, songs and on the internet. This
subject is so fascinating to the government, they are looking all the way back
to the ancient Greeks.
REALLY? Again, this is NOT the purpose of government and none of their business. There are better uses for the money I paid for taxes, such as not cutting military retirees pensions and benefits. The military risk their lives for their countries and their families often live in substandard housing crawling with roaches (especially the enlisted).
- $7
BILLION – destroying perfectly good military equipment. It just thrills my heart to know the
government is using MY hard-earned money to destroy military equipment, and
will then later, have to spend more
of my hard-earned money to build new equipment.
Why are they destroying it? The war in the Middle East is winding down and they can’t be bothered with selling it or shipping it back home.
- $379
MILLION – paid to a Canadian company to develop the Obamacare website, which
doesn’t work. I have nothing against the
Canadian company except this money was paid for by U.S. taxpayers. With millions of U.S. citizens out of work or
under-employed, the $379 MILLION could have created some “shovel-ready” jobs
right here in the U.S.
Add to that, the website doesn’t work and it is estimated it will cost twice as much to fix. More of OUR money goes down the drain. (Do you think you could spend your money better?)
- $3
MILLION – for NASA to go to Washington, D.C and study how Congress works.
I will tell the government for free just how it works!
- $65
MILLION – Hurricane Sandy “Emergency” funds, that should have been spent to help
those whose homes and business were destroyed by the hurricane was spent by
state-level government people in New York and New Jersey for TV ads to promote
tourism.
It was awful nice of New York’s and New Jersey’s state governments to spend MY money on TV ads to promote tourism so they could fill the government coffers with tourist money. Too bad for those whose homes and business were destroyed by the hurricane.
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$3.5
MILLION – for solar panels covered by a tarp.
Yup! The federal government paid
for solar panels on the parking garage at the Manchester-Boston Airport. Biggest problem (besides the gov’t wasting
money on ineffective green energy), the panels blinded pilots and air traffic controllers.
Who didn’t see that one coming?
I
hope you are as disgusted with this waste of OUR money. This is just the tip of the ice. There is more you just won’t believe.
It is time to VOTE the wasteful buzzards out of office. Many who have been in office for decades and are coming up for re-election in 2014 are upset because Americans from their own political party have decided to run against them in the primaries. Too many of the senators and representatives feel these positions are theirs for life because they won one election. How dare anyone oppose them?
It is time to VOTE the wasteful buzzards out of office. Many who have been in office for decades and are coming up for re-election in 2014 are upset because Americans from their own political party have decided to run against them in the primaries. Too many of the senators and representatives feel these positions are theirs for life because they won one election. How dare anyone oppose them?
That
attitude alone is enough for them to be voted out. I encourage everyone to pay attention to what
the government is doing when you are not looking. Read both sides of the stories and figure out
the truth for yourself, then go and vote!