I am not thrilled with the front the republicans are putting up and I have no faith in them…. I agree that the sacred cows will have to be slaughtered to get things under control.
SK I agree with you about putting america to work but I fail to see who wave the magic wand to make that happen. Put america to work doing what? Adding federal jobs? I am perplexed to see how the private sector will do that but I hope it does happen.
Right now I would be happy to see some simple progress on low hanging fruit.
Do we have to foot the legal bills for Fannie and Freddie executives who are under investigation? (175M tab)
Other tidbits found on the internet…
112M paid out by the irs in undeserved tax refunds to prisoners who filed fraudulent returns.
NASC paid a Stanford prof 250k to study how Americans use the internet to find love…Really? Will someone pay me 250k to say porn and match.com?
The VA paid out 175M each year to maintain buildings it does not use.
Vegas received 5.2M in federal grant to build the Neon Boneyard Par and Museum including 1.8M in 2010.
Anyways there are a ton of sites that have these lists. Whether they are true or not, I am not sure but even if half of them are true it is still a hell of alot of money.
I think regardless of whether you are liberal or conservative, it seems like there is some trimming that can be done.
