1 Government Worker to Every 5 American Working Adults
Unemployment Rate = 7.6%, Unemployment Rate for Government Workers = 3.6% Why don’t we just give everyone a guaranteed government job? It worked in the Soviet Union where there was no unemployment and...
View Article1.75 Trillion or 10% of US Economy Spent on Federal Regulations
And that is just the cost to businesses… not the gargantuan budget for the government. The Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy estimates that it costs Americans $1.75 trillion to comply...
View ArticleObama Cuts Military, Boosts UN Spending to $3.6 Billion
Obama is firing 20,000 Marines to save 10 billion dollars. Meanwhile the 2014 budget raises the cash giveaway to the United Nations to 3.6 billion dollars… or 7200 Marines. The State Department is...
View ArticleGovernment Spent $402,721 to Develop Underwear that Can Detect Cigarette Smoke
An E-1 enlisted United States Marine initially earns $16,548 a year. Obama fired 20,000 marines to “save money.” But meanwhile he was spending the equivalent of 25 E-1 salaries to develop underwear...
View ArticleIRS Handed Out $100 Million in Bonuses
Shame about how those CEOs just get bonuses all the time. Fortunately government is nothing like that. You can choose to do business with a company and see your income go toward its bonuses. You can’t...
View ArticleUS Gov to Spend Half a Mil Teaching Fish Survival Skills
Considering that the national debt is headed for 17 trillion, maybe the fish should be teaching survival skills to the United States government. The Department of Interior will be spending $472,150 to...
View ArticleStudent Loan Fraud Up 82% Under Obama
There are a lot of things that seem to be rising sharply under Obama. And they usually involve words like “Fraud” and “Waste” and rarely words like “Economic Improvement” and “Job Growth.” I wonder if...
View ArticleUS Spending $41 Mil to Advertise Food Stamps
For some context, total food stamp spending in 1969 was 250 million dollars. Now food stamp spending has long since departed into out of control territory and we’re spending the entire national budget...
View ArticleNational Lampoon’s $100 Million Obama Africa Vacation
For $100 mil you can probably just buy an African country. Or at least a big part of it that will allow Obama to be President for Life. It’s win-win. President Obama and his family will be going to...
View ArticleObama Bringing Mother-in-Law Along on $100 Mil African Vacation
It’s an official diplomatic visit. Sure it is. And don’t all official diplomatic visits involve bringing your wife’s family along on the taxpayer’s dime? In a move that can only fuel charges that his...
View ArticleWithout Federal Regulation, America Could Have a $53.9 Trillion GDP
Ironically we could then pay down the national debt we wouldn’t have. In a research paper that appears in the June 2013 issue of The Journal of Economic Growth titled “Federal Regulation and Aggregate...
View ArticleNo Money for Benghazi Security, But State Department Spent $630,000 on...
I wonder how much security that $630,000 would have bought for the Benghazi mission. But Hillary knew where the money really needed to go. Buying Facebook fans. State Department officials spent...
View ArticleObama Spending $313 Mil on Palestinian Mortgages
Financing mortgages for Muslim terrorists combines two of Obama’s interests into one horrible black hole. The valiant search for the best way to throw money into a giant metaphorical hole continues....
View Article$634 Million ObamaCare Website Company was Fired by Canada
So Obama took a Canadian company that Canadian officials fired for screwing up their health care website and gave it a much bigger job. Canadian provincial health officials last year fired the parent...
View ArticleObamaCare Website Now Officially the Most Incompetent Thing Obama has Ever Done
Sure there’s a lot of things to choose from. But I think we have a winner. The ObamaCare website, which estimates have placed at anywhere from under 100 million to 400 million to just under 300...
View Article$338 Mil Auto Bailout of Afghanistan Ends in Disaster
We borrowed money from China to help buy auto parts for Afghanistan that will smuggled and sold back into China. If that’s not smart economics, I don’t know what is. Just like GM, the U.S. government...
View ArticleSessions Challenges Government Grant to Study “Meaning of Life”
Apparently all the big problems have been solved. And these days, government is focusing on the big questions. Like the meaning of life. (Stop saying 42.) Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions wants to know...
View ArticleObama Pays Mexican Male Prostitutes to Stay Disease-Free
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a Mexican male brothel in Tijuana, good for you. But I want to be clear, you did it because the United States government...
View ArticleWhile Vets Wait 5 Years for Benefits, VA Bought $562,000 in Art
The Obama era has been a terrible one for veterans. The cuts to health and pensions were bad enough, but the backlog for benefits grew even worse. The ranks of veterans waiting more than a year for...
View ArticleSoros Backed Marxist Media Group Got $364 Mil from US Gov
But it’s all for a good cause. Even if we’re not entirely sure what that cause might be. Internews was founded by a self-described Marxist anti-war protester. It has received $1.7 million from Soros,...
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