Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Amy Radil: Seattle Will Fine You For Tossing Food In Trash
Government's newest innovation in revenue collection. In Seattle, wasting food will now earn you a scarlet letter — well, a scarlet tag, to be more accurate. The bright red tag, posted on a garbage bin, tells everyone who sees it that you've violated a new city law that makes it illegal to put food into trash cans. "I'm sure neighbors are going ... MOREGovernment Studies Why Obese Girls Don't Get Much Sex
by Casey Harper. Anyone have a theory? While most Americans put on a few pounds for Thanksgiving, the federal government has been spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars researching why obese girls don’t have sex. The National Institute for Health grant allocated $466,642 to the Magee-Women’s Research Institute to study the sexual ... MOREWhy Ending FEMA Will Improve Disaster Response
by Chris Edwards. Under the U.S. Constitution, the powers delegated to the federal government are “few and defined,” as James Madison noted in Federalist 45,
while the powers of the states “will extend to all the objects which,
in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and
properties of the people.” That decentralized ... MOREDan Mitchell: How Washington Profits By Pillaging America
Why politicians love to shear the sheep. I’ve been banging the drum for years about Washington being a racket for the benefit of politicians, cronyists, bureaucrats, contractors, lobbyists, interest groups, and other insiders. I’ve written about horrific examples of bloated spending that line the pockets of the well connected. ... MORE
When Drug War Propaganda Counts as State Police Training
by Aaron Malin. In Missouri, sworn law enforcement officers are required to take
48 credit hours of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)
continuing education every
three years. While some specific courses are required for all
officers, such as mandatory firearms classes, the majority are
elective courses that simply must add up ... MOREThe Economist: Prohibition And Drugs
Press down, pop up. The lesson politicians refuse to learn. Before “Breaking Bad”, there was “Miami Vice”. The 1980s television show pitted detectives in white linen suits against drugs traffickers who used the Caribbean as their point of entry into Florida. The route, at least, is back in fashion. The proportion of cocaine imports entering ... MORE'Crazy Cave' Is Poster Child For Government Waste
by Daniel Bates. No incentives for cost-saving innovation. Six hundred workers are processing government pension papers in an underground bunker entirely by hand in a staggering example of state inefficiency that is costing taxpayers millions. Staff at what has been dubbed the ‘Crazy Cave’ take up to 61 days just to deal with ... MOREJohn Stossel: Spring Clean Government
America Has A Black-Market Problem, Not A Drug Problem
by Conor Friedersdorf. General John F. Kelly, the head of the U.S. Southern Command,
testified last week before the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he
argued, as generals tend to do, that he has inadequate resources to
fulfill the missions assigned to him. Here's how the Associated Press summed up his statement: The U.S. ... MOREHow Government Wasted Taxpayer Dollars In 2013
3-D pizza printing, pole dancing, the $100,000 outhouse ... The federal government spent $680 billion more than it took in during the 2013 fiscal year. But despite shutting down much of Washington in an argument over how much debt to rack up in 2014, Uncle Sam continues to green-light spending on projects that only their contractors ... MORE
Peter Suderman: ObamaCare Is Working Fine
As long as no one tries to use it. In an op-ed for USA Today published yesterday evening, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted recent progress the Obamacare tech team has made on repair efforts to the health law’s troubled online insurance portal, HealthCare.gov. “The site is running faster, it's ... MORETSA Spent Nearly $1 Billion To Detect 0 Terrorists
So much for behavior detection officers. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spent approximately $900 million over the last 5 years for behavior detection officers to identify high-risk passengers but, so far, according to the General Accountability Office (GAO), only 0.59% of the passengers flagged were arrested and among those ... MOREIRS Paid Out $110 Billion In EITC To The Unqualified
One in five dollars squandered on improper payments. The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn't qualify for them, a Treasury report has revealed. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families but the report showed that one in five ... MORE
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