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 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 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 October 16th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The ARC was created by Congress in 1965 to “bring the 13 Appalachian states into the mainstream of the American economy.” The commission represents a partnership of federal, state, and local governments, and covers all of West Virginia, and portions of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Daily Waste will be taking aim at the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants and how its elimination can amount to big savings for taxpayers. The JAG program has been around since 1988 in one form or another. In 2005, Congress merged several Department of Justice (DOJ) grant programs under the JAG umbrella. In [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2012 by Sean Kennedy
In a bipartisan letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today, Sens. Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) again stated their opposition to continued funding for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). Sens. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), and David Vitter (R-La.) cosigned the letter. Despite opposition from three out [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Since 1965, LWCF state recreation grants have provided matching funds to state and local governments that improve or purchase lands for parks. The amounts have fluctuated from as low as zero in 1996 to $140 million in 2002. It makes no sense to tax people all over the United States to pay for public parks [...]
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Posted on August 29th, 2012 by CAGW Staff
Today on the Daily Waste we will be looking at the Essential Air Service and its identity as a wasteful program. The EAS was created in the 1970s after airline deregulation in an effort to retain air service in smaller communities. Unfortunately, the program has resulted in exorbitant airline subsidies to communities where service otherwise [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by Sean Kennedy
The prolonged saga of the alternate engine has finally come to a close. General Electric (GE) and Rolls-Royce, the makers of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) F136 alternate engine, announced today that they will suspend their fighter engine teams, concluding work on the project. GE and Rolls-Royce have been supplying funding for the development of [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2011 by Sean Kennedy
Created in 1995, the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is a collaborative missile defense project intended to replace the Patriot Missile system, which has been used by the U.S. and its allies for decades. A Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S., Germany, and Italy required that the U.S. pony up 58 percent of the [...]
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