Wastebook 2011
WASTEBOOK 2011 Table of Contents Introduction..................................................................................................................................1 1. Politicians Partying on the Taxpayer Dime – (Presidential Election Campaign Fund) $35.38 Million………………………………………………………….…..………………………………………..3 2. Mangled Mango Effort Could Hurt Farmers It Meant to Help – (Pakistan) $30 Million…………………………………………………………………………………………………..…….………………4 3. Poor Planning Hobbles Air Force Green Energy Effort – (Department of Defense) $14 Million…………………………………………………………………………………………………………5 4. Subsidy Program for Small Airports Fails to Help Most Recipients Achieve Sustainable Air Service – (Federal Aviation Administration) $6 Million……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6 5. Paying for Pancakes – (Washington, D.C.) $765,828……….………….…………………………..7 6. The Super-Bridge to Nowhere – (Alaska) $15.3 Million………………………………………….8 7. Dead Federal Employees Continue to Get Benefits Checks – (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) $120 Million ………………………………………….……………………………..9 8. Extreme Home Makeover: Federal Highway Funds to Transform Abandoned ―Rock House‖ into Visitors Center – (Oklahoma) $529,689………………………………….10 9. Video Game Preservation – (New York) $113,277………………………………………………….…11 10. Millions In Foreign Aid to… China? – (Department of State & U.S. Agency for International Development) $17.80 Million …………………………………………………….………12 WASTEBOOK 2011 Dear Taxpayer, Robot dragons, video games, Christmas trees, snow cone machines, and chocolate. This is not a Christmas wish list. These are just some of the ways the federal government spent your tax dollars this year. Over the past 12 months, Washington politicians argued, debated and lamented about how to rein in the federal government‘s out of control spending. Ask yourself as you review each of All the while, Washington was on a shopping the entries outlined in this report: binge, spending money we do not have on things we do not need, like the $6.9 billion worth of Can we afford these things examples provided in this report.
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