Latest "Federal Waste" From Dr. Coburn’s Pork Report
When you need to raise your blood pressure, visit the Pork Report/Washington Waste of the Day at the website of Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), M.D. where his staff round-up the details of “how Washington politicians, bureaucrats, and lobbyists are spending your tax dollars.”
The report for April 27, 2010 “identifies at least $60,001,133,000 in wasteful Washington spending.” A few of the ones that are sure to quickly raise your blood pressure are the following (visit his website for the links to read more):
- Las Vegas will have two mob museums, one funded with federal dollars
- Medicare funding the mob; Gangs, the Mafia, and other thugs defraud $60 billion from the federal health program every year
- Tennis resort receives federal stimulus funds
- New Mexico Lieutenant Governor charges $33,000 of the cost for her frequent use of state jets to federal stimulus funds
- California may spend $7.5 million in stimulus funds to rebuild a fish ladder; “Fish ladders don’t work like the engineers have them work on paper,” noted one biological consultant who has spent years working on fish population recovery efforts
- Success of $4 million federal stimulus program to populate a Florida river with oysters threatened by federal government’s decision to release millions of gallons of fresh water into the river which could kill the oysters
Is there any wonder CNNMoney.com reported last week on a survey of business economists:
“The recovery is picking up steam as employers boost payrolls, but economists think the government's stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with the rebound, according to a survey released Monday.”
That sentiment “is shared for the recently passed $17.7 billion jobs bill,” which was recently passed, according to CNNMoney.com.
P.S.: The second item in the list above (Medicare fraud) does not involve “stimulus money.”