Posted on April 12th, 2013 by Sean Kennedy
The Obama Administration may have just hammered the last nail into the coffin of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). As part of his fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget, President Obama refused to add money for the troubled program, keeping with his promise to cease funding following a two year proof of concept phase [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
A little-known but costly rider to the fiscal year 2013 continuing resolution has forced the U.S. Postal Service to withdraw its proposal to end Saturday delivery. This means that the USPS will continue to lose $2 billion annually that the agency sought to save by only delivering packages, which is one of the only profit-making [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
Hurricane Katrina caused an estimated $150 billion worth of damage in 1995. Adding taxpayer insult to personal and business injury, hundreds of millions of dollars have been squandered in an effort to help those affected by the unprecedented storm. Audits by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Department of Homeland Security showed that 900,000, or 36 percent of [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
There are more than enough egregious examples of mismanagement and inefficiency to create “Government Waste TV.” Unfortunately, no such network exists. The next best option would be a ”Daily Waste” segment on a major network. While such programming has also not yet been created on a permanent basis, between Monday, March 25 and Friday, March 29, Fox News Channel went where no network [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2013 by Silence Dogood
Recently, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard informed readers that President’s Obama’s top political appointees make an average of $142,691 annually. He notes this is more than three times the average American wage of $42,979. In addition, those which work closest with the president make anywhere from $120,000 to $172,000, with the higher end being more [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2013 by Silence Dogood
Just got hold of yet another email from Organizing for Action, President Obama’s perpetual campaign operation, about the sequester. Stephanie Cutter, the president’s former deputy campaign manager, sent the email to volunteers, lamenting how the nation was forced into the sequester because of GOP’s “obstructionism.” (As you will recall, the sequester is a process to [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
The House and Senate (after four years) Budget Committees will mark up the fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget resolution next week. Budget resolutions provide spending limits for each budget account, leaving specific policy decisions to authorization and appropriations committees. That does preclude suggestions for how to save money; in particular, both budget resolutions should call [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Leslie Paige
According to an article in The Washington Times, that’s the amount of time the President gave Republican leaders in Congress this week to discuss the sequester. Now they plan to meet again on Friday, March 1. That also happens to be the day the sequester takes effect. Wow! How does the president find the time [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
On the eve of sequestration, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released Prime Cuts 2013, our annual comprehensive list of spending cuts. This publication is useful at any time; it is of particular importance when Congress and President Obama are facing multiple crucial budget decisions. The automatic cuts known as sequestration, necessitated by the Budget Control Act [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2013 by Leslie Paige
Washington Post Associate Editor and uber-journo Bob Woodward has been blurting out all kinds of cogent things lately, most of it is giving the White House fits. But he is saying what many people are thinking. To wit: What the hell is the President doing? (Woodward is as we speak being slowly turned over the [...]
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