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CAGW's Blog
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BE-ANGRY
February 2009
A Monthly Dispatch from Citizens Against Government Waste
Waste and Fraud at the Central Intelligence Agency
by: Ishmael Jones
Waste and fraud at the Central Intelligence Agency not only squanders taxpayers' money but also endangers American lives. When money is diverted away from intelligence missions on rogue state nuclear threats, for example, Americans are at risk.
The USPS: Finally, Running Like A Real Private-Sector Business!
by: Leslie K. Paige
Unfortunately, U.S. Postmaster General John Potter has apparently decided that the business model he wants to emulate is that of beleaguered General Motors, whose Chief Executive Rick Wagoner took a 64 percent increase in his salary in 2007 while his company was taking a nosedive, losing $39 billion.
The RUS: A Fiscal Ruse
by: David Williams
The so-called stimulus bill passed by Congress and signed by the President grows government so much it would even make FDR blush. There are countless expenditures included in the bill that have nothing to do with ???fixing??? the economy. One such item is $2.5 billion for broadband deployment through the Rural Utilities Service (RUS).
The Agency of Healthcare Potentates
by: Elizabeth Wright
As taxpayers begin to grasp the sheer magnitude and the $787 billion price tag of H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the ???stimulus,??? more and more details are being exposed as policy makers have time to read and analyze the legislation. There is one section of the bill that has little to do with stimulating the economy and everything to do with overseeing the kind of healthcare Americans will, or will not, receive in the future.
Byrneing Down the House
by: Sean Kennedy
The so-called ???stimulus??? bill signed by President Obama on February 17 has come under withering fire for being rife with wasteful boondoggles whose purposes are increasingly deemed to be more politically motivated than economically sound. The bill contains funding for dozens of new programs and exorbitant plus-ups for many existing programs. For example, buried in the depths of the leviathan-like bill is $2 billion for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program. In addition to the ???stimulus??? funding, Congress intends to include more money for the program in the upcoming fiscal year (FY) 2010 appropriations bills as well.
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