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My blog is a little over two years old now, and I have been saying since almost day one, that there is no accountability in washington. There is no system of checks and balances. There is no adult supervision. We send billions and billions of our hard earned dollars to these dumbasses every year in the form of taxes and nobody cares enough about us to pay attention to how it is spent.
And it's not just the overlap of stupid programs, it's the fraud and outright theft that bothers me even more. There are plenty of government employees who know how to manipulate the system. They know how to funnel millions of dollars of these overlapping funds into their own pocket. They are 100% aware that there is no reliable system in place to track their government credit card purchases. The list goes on and on. And even when these thugs are caught they are rarely prosecuted and they usually pay back a very small portion of what they have stolen. And thanks to the unions, many of them even get to keep their jobs! How does that work? If I was caught stealing from my job, not only would I rightly be terminated, I would more than likely wind up in jail. Why do we continue to put up with this?
We trust our elected officials to be good stewards of our money. We trust them to make good hiring decisions, by hiring trustworthy people. We are getting screwed in this deal. Sometimes I doubt their is an honest person in our entire government. I'm sure there are some, somewhere, I think the good guys are outnumbered though.
Go over to FoxNews and read the rest of this story. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Can you begin to imagine all of the programs they haven't discovered yet? The people we trust waste TRILLIONS of our tax dollars every year and then they wonder why the budget and deficit are so far out of whack. If we ran our household budgets like washington manages our tax money, can you imagine the chaos?
From FoxNews
The federal government hosts 47 job-training programs, 44 of which overlap. It runs 80 programs for the "transportation disadvantaged."
Another 82 programs spread across 10 separate agencies endeavor to improve teacher quality -- something hundreds of local school districts are already focused on.
These are just a few of the findings in a blockbuster report on government waste and inefficiencies released by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The report identifies billions of dollars in potential savings if Congress just had the will to streamline initiatives that target politically popular causes.
Though lawmakers in both parties have long struggled to eliminate the common culprits of waste, fraud and abuse, they seized on the findings Tuesday. House Republican Leader Eric Cantor vowed to "get our fiscal house in order" in light of the report.
"Now again, we have said enough is enough. Our Congress is about delivering results," Cantor said.
"This report confirms what most Americans assume about their government. We are spending trillions of dollars every year and nobody knows what we are doing. The executive branch doesn't know. The congressional branch doesn't know. Nobody knows," Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said in a statement Tuesday morning. "This report also shows we could save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars every year without cutting services."
The well-timed release comes as Republicans and Democrats fight over how much to cut from the rest of this year's budget, not to mention next year's $3.73 trillion spending plan. Democrats have so far balked at GOP plans to cut $61 billion from the 2010 fiscal year budget. But while both parties are squabbling over a relatively small slice of the budget pie -- discretionary spending -- the GAO report suggests Congress could keep cutting and leave the operation of government intact.