We hear so often that the Republicans aren't playing fair, because the Democrats have made so many cuts, that they just can't afford to make any more. Realistically, those "cuts" haven't been cuts from what we've previously spent, but more of a small cut to the increase. Raise taxes 10%, then cut it down to 9.5% and call it a spending cut. But in case they're serious, I thought I'd help.
In 2011, Tom Coburn (R-OK) put together a report on Government's most wasteful spending. If you'd like to check it out yourself, there's a link at the bottom of this blog. It exposes millions in wasted spending, including $35.38 million spent on extravagant campaign parties, $120 million in benefits to dead federal employees, $30 million on a failed project to increase Pakistan's mango sales, and more.
But that was just 2011. He also did a report in 2010, showing such waste as $1.5 million improving apartments that were to be torn down, $930 million in wasted on unnecessary printing costs, and $2.9 million to study the World of Warcraft. There's even a section in there how the department of Energy wastes $2.2 million a year by leaving lights on unnecessarily.
These ridiculous wastes could only survive in government. In the private sector, if a company did an audit, and discovered that $930 million was being wasted on printing costs, they would immediately crack down on it. They would install ID codes into the printers so they could track which employees were printing more than necessary, and make sure that supervisors weren't allowing this to continue. If a particular branch couldn't cut down on unnecessary printing, that Supervisor would be fired.
If it was discovered that $120 million was being paid out to former employees that weren't even living, people would most definitely be fired. The problem would be stopped immediately. It doesn't get fixed in government, because nobody involved has any reason to care. After all, it's not like it's their money.
If this were to occur in a private sector corporation, people would not only be fired, but imprisoned for misappropriation of funds. I assume we've all seen "It's a Wonderful Life". Why is government not held to this standard?
A couple years ago, an audit was performed in my own home state of Idaho. The audit was given to the DMV, and one of the things discovered was over 60 managers, each managing only one employee. Their entire job was to manage a single employee, to make sure that one single person was doing their job, and paid a management salary to do so. And you so there is no waste to cut?
The Federal Government keeps adding more and more spending, and they want to raise taxes more and more. It seems to me that they already have the money. These are only a few examples. Between these two reports, you only have the tip of iceberg. If only I could discover this much waste in my own budget, I could fix it, and never have money problems again, and yet they have the nerve to say that we just can't handle any more cuts, while we add more than $1.5 trillion in debt every year, with the only cuts being negligible ones to the increases in spending, rather than an actual cut in spending.
Source Materials
2011 Report
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b69a6ebd-7ebe-41b7-bb03-c25a5e194365
2010 Report
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=774a6cca-18fa-4619-987b-a15eb44e7f18
In 2011, Tom Coburn (R-OK) put together a report on Government's most wasteful spending. If you'd like to check it out yourself, there's a link at the bottom of this blog. It exposes millions in wasted spending, including $35.38 million spent on extravagant campaign parties, $120 million in benefits to dead federal employees, $30 million on a failed project to increase Pakistan's mango sales, and more.
But that was just 2011. He also did a report in 2010, showing such waste as $1.5 million improving apartments that were to be torn down, $930 million in wasted on unnecessary printing costs, and $2.9 million to study the World of Warcraft. There's even a section in there how the department of Energy wastes $2.2 million a year by leaving lights on unnecessarily.
These ridiculous wastes could only survive in government. In the private sector, if a company did an audit, and discovered that $930 million was being wasted on printing costs, they would immediately crack down on it. They would install ID codes into the printers so they could track which employees were printing more than necessary, and make sure that supervisors weren't allowing this to continue. If a particular branch couldn't cut down on unnecessary printing, that Supervisor would be fired.
If it was discovered that $120 million was being paid out to former employees that weren't even living, people would most definitely be fired. The problem would be stopped immediately. It doesn't get fixed in government, because nobody involved has any reason to care. After all, it's not like it's their money.
If this were to occur in a private sector corporation, people would not only be fired, but imprisoned for misappropriation of funds. I assume we've all seen "It's a Wonderful Life". Why is government not held to this standard?
A couple years ago, an audit was performed in my own home state of Idaho. The audit was given to the DMV, and one of the things discovered was over 60 managers, each managing only one employee. Their entire job was to manage a single employee, to make sure that one single person was doing their job, and paid a management salary to do so. And you so there is no waste to cut?
The Federal Government keeps adding more and more spending, and they want to raise taxes more and more. It seems to me that they already have the money. These are only a few examples. Between these two reports, you only have the tip of iceberg. If only I could discover this much waste in my own budget, I could fix it, and never have money problems again, and yet they have the nerve to say that we just can't handle any more cuts, while we add more than $1.5 trillion in debt every year, with the only cuts being negligible ones to the increases in spending, rather than an actual cut in spending.
Source Materials
2011 Report
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b69a6ebd-7ebe-41b7-bb03-c25a5e194365
2010 Report
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=774a6cca-18fa-4619-987b-a15eb44e7f18
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