Gov't. Waste
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542thruNthru
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Someone on here must have an office job at UPS. I could never find the time to find all these stories! Also sorry but the dog does look like a doberman maybe if you were not so zoomed in on the head people could tell. 
texan
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Court Rejects Obama Admin Executive Privilege Arguments
Judge dings admin for ‘cavalier attitude’ toward transparency
A federal judge Tuesday rejected the Obama administration’s sweeping claims of executive privilege and ordered the disclosure of a foreign aid directive signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 but never publicly released.
Judge dings admin for ‘cavalier attitude’ toward transparency
A federal judge Tuesday rejected the Obama administration’s sweeping claims of executive privilege and ordered the disclosure of a foreign aid directive signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 but never publicly released.
upsgrunt
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$384,949 spent on a federal study that looks at ‘‘Plasticity in Duck Penis Length.‘Wait, it gets better. - See more at: http://www.foramerica.org/2014/01/1...ney-was-going-towards-2/#sthash.zG91uo1j.dpuf
$1 million to New York to put up some road signs telling drivers they are spending money … on road projects. It gets better.
$15,000 to an “artist” so he could build a model home out of cardboard… and then burn it down. Remember, this is your money.
4 – $3.4 million of your taxpayer dollars to the state of Florida for an underground turtle tunnel… Can’t have enough of those.
5 – $1.4 billion of your money paid for the Obama family housing, flying, and entertainment.When does Beyonce come to my place?
6 – $386,000 of taxpayer money went towards studying the effects of massage therapy on rabbits. Cats just fired their lobbyist.
7 – $1 million for the State Department to buy a sculpture of a granite block… made up of smaller granite blocks. Important people make these decisions.
8 – $835,000 for a General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas that included clowns and mind readers. Nothing too good for our government workers.
9 – $50 million of your money for IRS conferences from 2010 to 2012, including a $14 million conference in sunny California.. Might bring that up if you’re audited.
10 – And $398,990 of your money to conduct a study to see if “Tea Partiers” are dumb. Well, obviously, when compared to Washington.
$1 million to New York to put up some road signs telling drivers they are spending money … on road projects. It gets better.
$15,000 to an “artist” so he could build a model home out of cardboard… and then burn it down. Remember, this is your money.
4 – $3.4 million of your taxpayer dollars to the state of Florida for an underground turtle tunnel… Can’t have enough of those.
5 – $1.4 billion of your money paid for the Obama family housing, flying, and entertainment.When does Beyonce come to my place?
6 – $386,000 of taxpayer money went towards studying the effects of massage therapy on rabbits. Cats just fired their lobbyist.
7 – $1 million for the State Department to buy a sculpture of a granite block… made up of smaller granite blocks. Important people make these decisions.
8 – $835,000 for a General Services Administration conference in Las Vegas that included clowns and mind readers. Nothing too good for our government workers.
9 – $50 million of your money for IRS conferences from 2010 to 2012, including a $14 million conference in sunny California.. Might bring that up if you’re audited.
10 – And $398,990 of your money to conduct a study to see if “Tea Partiers” are dumb. Well, obviously, when compared to Washington.
DriveInDriveOut
Inordinately Right
From the mind of a 14 year old kid........
Suvir Mirchandani was inspired by an earlier project looking at how to save ink in teacher handouts. He recorded the ink usage of four different fonts—Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans—and found that Garamond's thin strokes would save his school district 24 percent in ink.
Then he decided to apply his results to a bigger scale: the U.S. government. He sampled documents from different government agencies and dug through printing budgets. As CNN reports, this is what he found.
Using the Government Services Administration's estimated annual cost of ink — $467 million—Suvir concluded that if the federal government used Garamond exclusively it could save nearly 30%—or $136 million per year. An additional $234 million could be saved annually if state governments also jumped on board, he reported.
http://gizmodo.com/the-us-government-would-save-400-million-if-it-just-sw-1553855397
Suvir Mirchandani was inspired by an earlier project looking at how to save ink in teacher handouts. He recorded the ink usage of four different fonts—Garamond, Times New Roman, Century Gothic and Comic Sans—and found that Garamond's thin strokes would save his school district 24 percent in ink.
Then he decided to apply his results to a bigger scale: the U.S. government. He sampled documents from different government agencies and dug through printing budgets. As CNN reports, this is what he found.
Using the Government Services Administration's estimated annual cost of ink — $467 million—Suvir concluded that if the federal government used Garamond exclusively it could save nearly 30%—or $136 million per year. An additional $234 million could be saved annually if state governments also jumped on board, he reported.
http://gizmodo.com/the-us-government-would-save-400-million-if-it-just-sw-1553855397
moreluck
golden ticket member
They could just set up tents in a camping park but........that way they could checkout the ENVIRONMENT !!!! (EPA)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...n-hotel-for-environmental-justice-conference/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...n-hotel-for-environmental-justice-conference/
moreluck
golden ticket member
Via BPR
A taxpayer-funded educational facility in Miami-Dade County intended to teach at-risk teens job skills is sitting vacant and unused, which has been the case since 2011.
The building, in Cutler Bay, fails to benefit the public despite ample initial funding, according to a county inspector general’s audit. It’s also doubtful a single student has benefitted from the project as designed.
As part of a community grant agreement between the county and Bay Point Schools Inc, a nonprofit alternative school for minors with criminal pasts, $1 million in taxpayer money went toward the construction of a 13,400-square-foot building for the purpose of vocational training programs. The Lennar Foundation, a charitable arm of a nationwide housing corporation, pledged an additional $1 million.
Bay Point Schools is no longer a legal entity, and auditors have determined at least 80 percent of money was lost because of poor decisions.
If there’s a saving grace it’s the option for the local government and other stakeholders to find a tenant, but nothing has been secured.
Approved in May 2008, the building was meant to be part of the larger campus that sits on land owned by the Ethel and W. George Kennedy Family Foundation, a Miami-Dade charitable group focusing on children’s issues.
A taxpayer-funded educational facility in Miami-Dade County intended to teach at-risk teens job skills is sitting vacant and unused, which has been the case since 2011.
The building, in Cutler Bay, fails to benefit the public despite ample initial funding, according to a county inspector general’s audit. It’s also doubtful a single student has benefitted from the project as designed.
As part of a community grant agreement between the county and Bay Point Schools Inc, a nonprofit alternative school for minors with criminal pasts, $1 million in taxpayer money went toward the construction of a 13,400-square-foot building for the purpose of vocational training programs. The Lennar Foundation, a charitable arm of a nationwide housing corporation, pledged an additional $1 million.
Bay Point Schools is no longer a legal entity, and auditors have determined at least 80 percent of money was lost because of poor decisions.
If there’s a saving grace it’s the option for the local government and other stakeholders to find a tenant, but nothing has been secured.
Approved in May 2008, the building was meant to be part of the larger campus that sits on land owned by the Ethel and W. George Kennedy Family Foundation, a Miami-Dade charitable group focusing on children’s issues.
Babagounj
Strength through joy
Part of the deal of them leaving the country was that they got to keep their SS payments .
moreluck
golden ticket member
They're criminals....make the deal and then when they leave the country, don't send them anything. They're old, what can they do , call the cops?
We don't make deals with criminals !! (well,we shouldn't)..
Gee, under Reagan / Bush.. millions of dollars in taxpayer money went to NAZIS!
Go figure.
TOS.
Go figure.
TOS.
Gee, under Reagan / Bush, millions of taxpayer dollars went to NAZI's!!
Go figure.
TOS.
Go figure.
TOS.
moreluck
golden ticket member
Helping America's poor, aged and sick is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' reason for being, but hundreds of its top officials are traveling in style and luxury at taxpayer expense.
Records obtained by the Washington Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show that HHS executives spent $31 million taking 7,000 first class and business class flights between 2009 and 2013, including 253 trips for which a one-way ticket cost more than $15,000.
Half the records listed the price of a coach ticket for comparison. For that portion alone, the upgrade boosted the cost by almost $14 million, from $4.9 million to $18.5 million.
Federal employees are allowed to fly business or first class if the flight is longer than 14 hours, but only 1,400 of the 7,000 flights met that description
Records obtained by the Washington Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show that HHS executives spent $31 million taking 7,000 first class and business class flights between 2009 and 2013, including 253 trips for which a one-way ticket cost more than $15,000.
Half the records listed the price of a coach ticket for comparison. For that portion alone, the upgrade boosted the cost by almost $14 million, from $4.9 million to $18.5 million.
Federal employees are allowed to fly business or first class if the flight is longer than 14 hours, but only 1,400 of the 7,000 flights met that description
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