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Wastewatcher is CAGW's monthly dispatch to members of the news media. Culled from dense General Accounting Office reports, obscure news items, and the occasional account of a whistleblower, Wastewatcher's stories captured headlines by transforming the dry matter of federal financial management into side-splitting -- albeit infuriating -- tales of government ineptitude.

The North Carolina Winston-Salem Journal said of Wastewatcher that it is "a monthly publication that probably deserves wider dissemination than it gets...even heavily discounted to allow for the ax CAGW is grinding, the news from its reports is high in shock value and humor (of the gallows variety)."

2010

January: Prime Cuts 2010:  Quantifiable Recommendations for Change (We Believe In!); As Massachusetts Goes…; The Many Perks of Congressional Employment; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – The Voldemort(s) of the Financial Crisis

February:  Stimulating…or Just Plain Depressing?, Don’t Count on an Efficient Census Bureau, Pulling The Plug on Yucca Mountain – A New Mountain of Waste, The Ongoing Tanker Saga

March:  Sex, Drugs and BlackBerrys, “There Ain’t No Rules Here”: Vote Buying, Fix-its, and Budget Gimmicks Used to Ram Through Healthcare Bill, Government Broadband is too Broad, It is Time to Deflate Federal Salaries, To Infinity and Beyond!, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Trying to Track Stimulus Money Robs Oversight of Other Federal Spending

April:  CAGW Tells FCC: We Refuse to Stay Neutral, Time to Revisit the Benefits of $1 Coins, Stimulus Rebellion on the Eastern Shore, The Congressional Pig Book in Focus

May:   NASA’s Big Opportunity, Cash for…Caulkers?, The Ongoing Farce of the “Emergency Supplementals”, Time to Pay the Piper, GM’s “Claims” of Repayment

June:  The DISCLOSE Act: Free Speech for Some, Hefty Price for Others, A Failure of Leadership, Making Fiscal Sense in New Jersey, Congress Spends Without a Budget, Government Acquisition Waste, Playing Politics with the Anthrax Vaccine


July:  Carolina on Taxpayers' Minds, The Fannie and Freddie Meltdown: Picking Up PACE, Congressmen Keep Pork Projects Cooking, Pork Alert Roundup, Flood Insurance Still Soaks the Taxpayer, Creating More Federal Employees

August:  The Great Unraveling Continues…, The “Razorback Subsidy” is a Whole Different Kind of Disaster for Taxpayers, Spending Revolt Bus Across America, Pork Alert Roundup: Recess Edition, Government Broadband Deployment Report Card: F 

September: Pension Precipice, Air Force Tanker Struggling to Lift Off, The Perfect Storm for ESPCs, Another Sour Note for Taxpayers, Time to REIN in the Executive Branch, Billions Wasted in Iraq

October: ObamaCare Challenges Move Ahead in Court, Extending Bush Era Tax Cuts Will Aid the Economic Recovery, Port Earmark Divides South Carolina Senators, Privacy Problems, Pork on Life Support: Time to Pull the Plug

November: Federal Bailout No More! State and Local Governments Must Deal With Their Own Pension Predicaments, Cut Corporate Income Taxes, State Piglet Roundup, The Consumer Police and Sin Taxes

December: Fiscal Commission: The First Step in a Journey of a Thousand Miles, All Signs Point to a Waste of Tax Dollars, Enormous Federal Salaries Waste Taxpayer’s Money

 

 


 

 

 

 

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