Earlier this week, the Nevada Policy Research Institute and Citizens Against Government Waste released the 2008 Nevada Piglet Book. The findings may shock you. For example: As of January 2008, Las Vegas City Council members had, over the previous 18 months, spent $190,000 on random special events. Or, perhaps, not so random $1,200 for pencils [...]
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While Congress is occupied making an even larger disaster out of the mess of the federal bailout of our entire financial system, they are not too busy to also sneak a $488 billion Defense Authorization package through, which is predictably larded up with a reported $5 billion in pet projects. Read the whole thing here in the San Francisco Chronicle, [...]
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Vice-Presidential hopeful Sen. Joe Biden just informed everyone that paying higher taxes is a patriotic act! If you don’t believe me, read it for yourself! Here is what he said: “We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people,” Biden said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Noting that wealthier [...]
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CAGW was featured this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America! If you want to experience the full impact of Byrd’s pork-barreling habits, go here!
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For the sixth year in a row, Citizens Against Government Waste and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation have released the California Piglet Book. This year’s installment looks at a top ten list of transportation waste, fraud, and abuse. This year’s Piglet also includes a special report on a proposed high speed rail project presented by CAGW, HJTA, and [...]
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I was wondering how long it would take for some smartie pants to state the obvious…or at least wonder out loud…could it be possible that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in their zeal for profits, actually drove us into the housing bubble and the subsequent economic meltdown? The questions are beginning to mount. F & F’s relentless drive to [...]
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And don’t look to Capitol Hill for any guidance. Hill offices want raises for the staff so they scrounged the money for them from the employees’ health insurance accounts? Check out this article from today’s Roll Call. Here are the highlights, uh, sorry, lowlights, actually: House appropriators plan to take millions of dollars from various legislative branch projects — including [...]
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Hurry up and wait, isn’t that what they say? Today’s Seattle Post Intelligencer features an editorial worth reading about the Pentagon’s recent decision to suspend the competition for the Air Force’s new $35 billion aerial refueling tanker, kicking the can down the road for yet another six months or longer, into the next administration, which is a [...]
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On September 10, 2008 Fox News reporter William La Jeunesse produced a piece on the presidential and vice-presidential candidates and their respective records on pork-barrel spending and their votes on wasteful government programs. CCAGW President Tom Schatz is featured.
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The federal takeover of the nation’s two giant housing government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is prompting a lot of anger and a lot of questions. The U.S. Treasury Department issued this statement to answer many of the questions being asked about what it means to put these two companies into “conservatorship.”
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