government waste

Almost nothing would do more to guarantee Donald Trump’s re-election than a crusade to weed out the hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud, inefficiency and duplication in Washington. No one is better to do it than a president who has been a successful businessman. A government that is going broke and yet still spends tens of thousands of dollars a year on pianos, hundreds of millions of dollars a year on public relations firms, and billions of dollars a year sending Social Security checks out to dead people, isn’t serious about balancing the budget or spending taxpayer money with the same care they spend their own.

What’s needed is a strategy that shames Congress, which sometimes seems beyond shame, for misspending the people’s money. What will help in that shaming is for the president to establish an independent commission made up of retired Republicans, Democrats and average citizens. This commission would conduct a top-to-bottom audit of the federal government and present its findings to Congress, while simultaneously releasing them to the public, which would then apply pressure on Congress to adopt them.

While many Americans are making hopeful New Year’s resolutions for 2016, federal agency officials could focus on being more productive with the trillions of tax dollars they collect every year. There is no shortage of ways to do so. From solar-powered beer to President Barack Obama’s Hawaii vacation, here are the top 10 wasteful expenditures of 2015.

Obama's amnesty will make hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of illegals eligible for fed. transfer payments. That'll be done mainly via the Earned Income Tax Credit & Additional Child Tax Credit (among the most fraud-ridden).

“Only someone with too much of someone else’s money and not enough accountability for how it was being spent could come up some of these projects,” the Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said when releasing the Wastebook.

Here's the Republican List of Shame of those who voted for the wasteful and extra-constitutional trillion-dollar Omnibus spending bill.

“The White House estimates it cost $2 billion to provide back pay to federal employees ‘for services that could not be performed’ during the shutdown, is roughly $2.0 billion,” the Waste Book 2013 says. “Total compensation costs, including benefits, are about 30% larger, in the range of $2.5 billion.”

DOJ employees are supposed to defuse heated situations but instead rioted over Martin's death.