Monday, March 8
I read the Federal Budget last year, or at least a lot of it. And while news stories tend to point out some of the obvious pork, you miss the forest when you look at the trees of the crazy spending going on. Not to follow that by pointing to more trees, but...
The Federal government is funding the Alaskan celebration of their statehood, for example. We're paying $150,000 for a single traffic light in Briarcliff Manor, New York (An expenisve place to live, but jeez.) We're helping to build a rainforest in Iowa. We're paying for a Neveda Senator's guilty conscience because, "He reasons, everybody else in Congress does it."
At least he's honest, the fucking dickwad.
Oh, and then there is this cherry from the Heritage Foundation, "The U.S. General Accounting Office refuses to certify the federal governments own accounting books because the bookkeeping is so poor. Eighteen of the 26 departments and major agencies received the lowest possible rating for their financial management, meaning that auditors cannot even express an opinion on their financial statements. The federal government made $20 billion in overpayments in 2001."
And they cannot account for $17.1 billion spent in 2002. Doh!
The Federal government is funding the Alaskan celebration of their statehood, for example. We're paying $150,000 for a single traffic light in Briarcliff Manor, New York (An expenisve place to live, but jeez.) We're helping to build a rainforest in Iowa. We're paying for a Neveda Senator's guilty conscience because, "He reasons, everybody else in Congress does it."
At least he's honest, the fucking dickwad.
Oh, and then there is this cherry from the Heritage Foundation, "The U.S. General Accounting Office refuses to certify the federal governments own accounting books because the bookkeeping is so poor. Eighteen of the 26 departments and major agencies received the lowest possible rating for their financial management, meaning that auditors cannot even express an opinion on their financial statements. The federal government made $20 billion in overpayments in 2001."
And they cannot account for $17.1 billion spent in 2002. Doh!
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