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51 Examples of Government Waste
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A look at the CBO's evaluation of the federal budget that includes:
51 Examples of Government Waste: Mismanagement
<ol start="27">[*]The Department of Agriculture’s Market Access Program provided $400,000 to the liquor lobby, which used part of those funds to transport foreign journalists to different breweries and distilleries in the southeastern United States. [*]The International Trade Administration spent $284,300 to send American indie music executives on an international tour to promote the “independent” music industry. [*]The U.S. Enrichment Corporation received $60 million from the federal government despite the company announcing plans to declare bankruptcy. [*]One coffee plantation in Hawaii received a $25,000 grant from the Department of Agriculture to use solar power to dry coffee beans. Coffee bean farmers have been using the sun, in one way or another, to dry their beans for centuries. [*]The Department of Agriculture awarded a $37,475 grant to teach northern Nevada farmers what kind of fruits and vegetables the Hispanic community enjoys and how to market them to Hispanics. [*]The Department of Agriculture awarded a $50,000 grant to “Mary’s Alpaca,” an alpaca farm in The Plains, Virginia. This grant came from the Agriculture Department’s “rural development funds” and is intended to support the farm’s business of packaging, selling, and marketing alpaca manure. [*]In an attempt to create more jobs in butterfly farming, the Department of Agriculture granted $500,000 to the Euchee Butterfly Farm to train Native American members of the Thlopthlocco Tribal Town in butterfly farming. </ol> Questionable Federal Research <ol start="34">[*]In an attempt to fight childhood obesity and type II diabetes, the National Institutes of Health has granted more than $10 million toward the creation of video games that they hope will encourage children to eat healthier and exercise more. One of the games, “Escape from Diab,” is about five children who must get healthy enough to escape from a town full of obese people and their evil king. [*]The National Institutes of Health spent $466,642 to research whether a lack of social skills is the reason why obese girls are asked on fewer dates, yet engage in more risky sexual behaviors than slimmer girls. [*]The National Institutes of Health spent more than $2 million to study how singing in a choir affects the health of “minority elders,” including how choir singing promotes body strength and reduces falling incidents among the elderly. [*]In an effort to understand whether gay men in Peru test positive for syphilis after treatment due to treatment failure or re-infection, the National Institutes of Health spent $330,000 to study the lifestyle and health of men who have sex with men and transgender persons in Peru. [*]The National Institutes of Health spent $374,000 to study whether preschoolers will eat more vegetables after watching a puppet show about fruits and vegetables. [*]The National Science Foundation granted more than $200,000 to a Yale University research project that is trying to determine how and why Wikipedia has a systematic gender bias. Researchers believe this is a step toward understanding and addressing gender disparities in academia. [*]The U.S. Army awarded a $91,318 grant to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to count and determine the population of “little brown bats” in and around Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The Army hopes this survey will determine whether the bats should be added to the endangered species list. [*]The National Institutes of Health spent $484,000 to study whether hypnosis can reduce the number and intensity of hot flashes in postmenopausal women and breast cancer survivors. [*]The National Science Foundation spent $300,000 to study how bicycles work and how humans interact with them. The goal of the study was to find a way to make bike riding a more attractive method of travel in order to reduce society’s carbon footprint. [*]NASA spent $360,000 for people to stay in slightly declined beds for 70 days to test the effects of gravity on humans over long durations of time. NASA had already conducted this experiment many times since the 1960s. [*]NASA gave two grants totaling $237,205 to the University of Washington to study how rainfall effects the red crab’s annual migration to Christmas Island. Researchers hope this study will help them better understand the potential consequences of climate change for the red crabs. [*]The Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program awarded a $15,000 grant to the Rich Earth Institute in Vermont, which specializes in using human urine as fertilizer. This specific grant was to study if human urine could be a fertilizer for hay fields. [*]The National Science Foundation granted $2.9 million to Butler University to create arts, dances, and poems at specific waterways in Indianapolis. The goal of the project is to educate citizens about their city’s urban waterways through artistic expression. [*]The National Institutes of Health’s Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine spent $387,000 to study the healing effects of Swedish massage on rabbits. [*]The Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spent $10,000 to monitor the growth rate of saltmarsh cordgrass in an attempt to better understand how cordgrass should be treated and how it can be used to protect marshes. [*]The National Institutes of Health’s Center for Research Resources spent $371,026 for a study to determine if mothers have the same neurological reaction when looking at pictures of their children and their dogs. [*]The National Science Foundation spent $856,000 to study the wildlife habits of mountains lions through a scientific collar. The study included teaching mountain lions how to walk on treadmills and monitoring the amount of energy used in a mountain lion’s pounce. [*]The National Institutes of Health spent $1,552,145 on the development of a smartphone game called “Kiddio: Food Fight.” The game is intended to teach parents how to convince their children to eat healthier foods. </ol>Source information on file with The Heritage Foundation. <div>http://www.heritage.org/research/reports...mbers-2014 </div> “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.”. - Plato
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If you can ... Watch an episode of Vice. It's on HBO.
Waste in Afghanistan will make you hurl. A mega million dollar power plant. Not running because it's too expensive to run Helicopters bought from Russja...yes...Russia...to help their military. Sit idle. Not enough pilots and now one can maintain them Contractors. Cut out engines. Tires. Etc from various vehicles...sell them to a scrap yard, then order new ones Infrastructure built that ztaliban keeps blowing up. That's just the tip of this stinking, corrupt iceberg. Then people flip out when they hear about cutting military expenditures. Then there's Iraq. Crazy..it's like someone smashes up someone's house, pays to fix it it, then repeats.
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Ugh government waste it's so massive and so common makes me question anything government does can ever be efficient.
Some Fortune 500 companies in 2014 received a combined total of 63 billion dollars in subsidies. These are fortune 500 companies, who are clearly big enough to take care of themselves.
Nobody wants to do anything about the real waste. Republicans want to cut welfare (and they <i>claim</i> they want to get rid of all waste, but they never do anything about it) and Democrats don't really seem to care about cutting the harmful programs we fund either (nor do they usually make such promises) How can people expect these 'welfare queens' to get off welfare, when our Fortune 500 Companies are on it. There are unused buildings that are racking up spending that could be re-purposed or sold. And they're not just costing us one time, they're costing us every year. We need some efficiency in government desperately. Clean up some of this waste. It's just a pity it'll probably never happen.
I was wrong about Trent Baalke.
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I used to work at a branch of the VA Outpatient Clinic.. Wanna talk about waste? Part of my job description was purchase agent. I've been ordered to purchase brand new equipment many times, replacing slightly used medical equipment. Equipment such as 1.7 million dollar Pet/Cat Scan machines. Yeah, the slightly older equipment got sold on a government auction site, but for only a fraction of the initial cost.. Like I said, we're talking equipment only a year to two old..
Quote:Some Fortune 500 companies in 2014 received a combined total of 63 billion dollars in subsidies. These are fortune 500 companies, who are clearly big enough to take care of themselves. Well said and total truth. Couldn't have said it better
When I lived in Germany AFN (armed forces network tv and radio channels) were always playing commercial spots about fraud, waste, and abuse and how we were 'strongly encouraged' to report anything. It was like a sick joke because everyone knew something about it happening somewhere and reporting it did no good. The government is a subject matter expert on how to turn a blind eye.
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