Category: Government Waste

Because people are not frugal with other people’s money, government spending is characteristically inefficient — and rarely more so than in Bill de Blasio’s New York City. A Long Island Rail Road extension project is estimated to cost almost $3.5 billion for each new mile of track: That staggering $3.5 billion price tag is seven […]

A new website will be unveiled today that will save millions in operating costs and hours upon hours for users. The new version of WhiteHouse.gov is the result of a months of work that intends to “bring the Trump administration’s digital presence up to current standards.” According to an official, the previous version of the […]

On the dark side of the moon stand vast palaces made completely of gold, where federal bureaucrats plan to retire. Or maybe they constructed a city of platinum under a giant dome at the bottom of the sea. Either might explain what they have done with the missing $21 trillion: An economics professor at Michigan […]

This was one of the more egregious bits of corruption during the Obama years, where the EPA was tightly knit with environmental groups, who used “friendly lawsuits” to force regulatory change (Washington Times) The Trump administration on Monday took steps to end the highly controversial “sue and settle” practice that led directly to a host […]

Nancy Pelosi claimed that ObamaCare would create 4 million jobs. Some have been skeptical, but here is at least one job outside of government bureaucracy that federal intrusion into healthcare has created: Alexis C. Norman, 46, of Midlothian, Texas has been indicted on felony offenses stemming from a health care fraud conspiracy she ran from […]

The U.S. Constitution does not grant the federal government the power to redistribute our wealth. If the Constitution were still fully in force, there would be no federal welfare, no ObamaCare, and no wasting our money on the corrosive antics of the liberal elite through the thoroughly pernicious National Endowment for the Arts and National […]

The stories in the news come and go, but the wasteful federal spending that is bleeding us to death goes on and on and on: The National Endowment for the Arts is spending $20,000 for a musical about a lesbian illegal immigrant who is in love with an ICE agent. The San Francisco Mime Troupe, […]

The waste goes on and on and on, as federal bureauweenies search for ever more preposterous ways to flush our money down the toilet. If the money can be wasted and leftist propaganda be advanced at the same time, so much the better: This week, the University of Georgia announced that one of their science […]

Moonbats, prepare yourselves for heartbreak. Seattle’s bike share program has passed away: The program, known as “Pronto,” was launched in October 2014, costing $4.4 million (including $1.75 million in state and federal taxpayers’ money). From the start, there was fanfare and hype, with promises of widespread use of the bike sharing program — despite our […]

The Washington Post is Very Concerned over Donald Trump threatening to reduce the federal workforce Washington region braces for budget that could shake up the historically stable local economy President Trump’s budget, which is set to call for cuts of 10 to 20 percent to federal agencies headquartered in and around the nation’s capital, could […]

The Washington State Republican Party has issued a DEMS Alert (DEMS = Distinctly Embarrassing Moments for Seattle) over the massive tax hit locals will sustain due to the colossally expensive light rail expansion known as Sound Transit 3: [T]he costs of ST3 are coming crashing down on car owners and property owners who thought someone […]

Everyone needs to fill their time with something. Those struggling to generate wealth for the government to confiscate spend it working. For those on the receiving end of the wealth, this is more of a challenge. Federal bureaucrats sometimes solve the problem with the help of pornography: NBC News 4 in Washington, D.C., identified over […]

The federal government confiscated $1,084,840,000,000 in tax revenues in the first 4 months of the fiscal year — and still managed to spend $156,940,000,000 more than it took in. This amazing feat was accomplished by wasting the money in ways that defy any normal person’s imagination. For example: A taxpayer-funded study set [out] to find […]

The Republican controlled Congress took an interesting step Wednesday (Reuters) Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill in the House of Representatives that touched on nearly every step U.S. agencies take in creating and applying new rules, continuing their blitz to radically reform “abusive” federal regulation of areas from the environment to the workplace. In a […]