Washington DC Adult Entertainment: Congressional spenders ignore deepening government waste
Written on November 10, 2009 – 11:37 pm | by larrylibido
… Washington spends $92 billion annually on corporate welfare (not even counting recent corporate bailouts) versus $71 billion on homeland security.
—The federal government made at least $72 billion in payment errors in 2008.
—Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.
—Government auditors spent the last five years examining all federal programs and found no evidence that 22 percent of them — costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually — help the populations they serve.
—The Congressional Budget Office published a “Budget Options” series identifying more than $100 billion in potential spending cuts. It went largely ignored.
—Government auditors examining wasteful duplication counted 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; and 90 early childhood development programs.
—Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.