Tag: government waste

$65 Billion DOGE Wouldn’t Let Them Waste

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Blizzard of Money

I wish it was ONLY a novel!

Next time you come home tired and frustrated by your job–but you’ve got to keep working, or the roof falls in–DO NOT contemplate the $65 billion of American taxpayers’ money pissed away, by our government, literally all over the world. You’ll never get to sleep.

And that’s just the $65 billion that our new Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has turned up so far (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/26/doge-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-were-poised-to-drive-social-and-behavior-change-in-uganda-developing-socially-responsible-behaviors-in-colombia/).

Here are a few gems from the collection.

*Millions for “social and behavior changes”… in Uganda! Betcha never guessed you were working for that.

*Millions for fostering “socially responsible behavior” in Columbia.

Sugar daddy to the world, that’s us! Like, they have no adults in countries like Uganda? No one in Colombia knows  how to behave?

*How about $520 million for ESG investments in Africa? Does that float your boat? In case you didn’t know, ESG stands for environmental , social, and corporate governance by people who think most of you got stuck at five years old and aren’t to be trusted with your own money. That you worked for. And these stunatas in government never even said “Thank you.”

Who the dickens do these people think they are? “Shut up! We’re busy solving all Uganda’s problems!” 

Go, DOGE, go! Cut ’em off at the hips!

Embarrassed for My Country

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U.S. Dollar bills being consumed by fire on a bed of coals

I don’t suppose waste and corruption in government are uncommon in a fallen world. But when it’s your own country–well, sheesh!

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is reviewing some of this taxpayer-plundering (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/16/usda-axes-millions-contracts-including-230k-brazilian-forest-gender-consultant/). Would you believe $132 million for “Brazilian Forest and Gender Consultant”? A few million here, a few more million there–oh! and $230,000 for “Diversity Dialogue Workshops.” Whatever the devil that is.

Americans had to get out of bed and work for that money–and there was our government pissing it against the wall. What kind of wack-jobs were running senile Joe Biden’s White House?

President Trump! Encourage your new Dept. Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be thoroughly ruthless when it comes to protecting us, the American people, from incontinence in government. God knows how much money we waste–we don’t!

Who was making these decisions, while President Joe relaxed on the beach? His son, Hunter the Crook? His wife, Dr. Jill? You can bet they’ll never tell us.

Sic ’em, DOGE!

Why? Why, Why, Why? (The Case of the Yellow Nehru Jacket)

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“Ha, ha! Waddaya mean, your money? Peasant!”

In high school I had a friend who had no more sense than God gave a potato. So of course his mother gave him a credit card. Huge mistake! She had to take it back in just a few days. The yellow Nehru jacket was the last straw. But he’d still had time to waste a pretty sizable pile of money.

Today, in government, Elon Musk and his staff, in just a few short weeks, have discovered BILLIONS of dollars–taxpayer dollars–pissed against the wall by thieves and charlatans in Congress (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/new-details-there-are-least-15-active-nih/). And there ain’t no mama to take away their credit card.

Look at some of this stuff–and keep a barf bag handy.

*”Transgender animal experiments,” 15 National Institute of Health grants totalling $26 million

*”Diversity, Equity. and Inclusion” grants in 2023 totalling $373 million

*$9.7 million for Oregon, where they’re trying to create “transgender sheep”

*$25 million to Ann Arbor for “transgender mice”

*$58 million to Rutgers University “to foster an inclusive environment for LGBTQIA2S+ individuals” (Can you decipher the code?)

In short, :”hundreds of millions”–repeat, hundreds of millions–“of women, nonbinary people, and transgender men around the world” (God help us, how many times around?)

Actually, I think I have begun to understand the big “transgender” push.

IT’S BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG MONEY! Money that you and I, poor suckers, had to go out and work for. And to think we could’ve been trying to create transgender mice in the laboratory-=with government funding!

I pray we get to see the day of reckoning. Complete with massive parades into the prison system.

 

‘So You Want to Give More Power to the Government?’ (2015)

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Waste, waste, waste…

They’re spending like crazy (I mean that literally) up on Capitol Hill these days, increasing our national debt by trillions of dollars at a time–in addition to financing Ukraine’s war with Russia.

Local governments are just as incontinent.

So You Want to Give More Power to the Government?

Yeah, my town has got yours beat in the waste derby–we tore down a school while we were still paying for its construction. Eventually they’ll have us paying for buildings that never get built at all.

‘The New, Expensive Bridge–Oops!’ (2018)

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Gee! Our brand-new bridge that cost a billion dollars turned out to be too steep to drive in icy weather. Coulda knocked us over with a feather!

The New, Expensive Bridge–Oops!

In these days of intoxicating talk of spending trillions of dollars on “infrastructure”–a word meaning “anything”–we can wonder how many of these projects will turn out to be a total waste of time and money. You know–bridges that you can’t cross if there’s winter weather going on, that sort of thing.

Didn’t Obama or someone promise there’d be no more winter if we gave the government all our money?

The Division of Happy Funny-Ness?

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The Economist on Twitter: "America's government wastes a heck of a lot of money http://t.co/V9sFd1WzYv http://t.co/jDmNsydwmH"

Buried in the $3.5 trillion spending package that Democrats have been trying to move through Congress, we find $175 billion allocated for creating, within the Dept. of Justice, a new Division of Happy Funny-Ness charged with keeping America amused by jokes and riddles.

The division will be headed and staffed by members of a little-known branch of the Biden family, the Xi Jin Pings. Assistant Deputy Vice-Director Boo-Boo Biden has already composed several riddles for public distribution. Here are two examples.

Q: Why wasn’t the cowboy hungry?

A: Because he just ate.

And if you think that was a rolling-on-the-floor knee-slapper, get a load of this one–

Q: What’s the difference between an elephant and something else? (This one doesn’t have an Answer yet. We presume Boo-Boo is still researching it.)

According to CNN News, all opposition to any aspect of the spending bill is racist and should be investigated by the FBI as soon as that agency can take time off from investigating parents who complain about their public schools’ curriculum.

‘Centaur Escapes from Government Raptor Facility’ (2014)

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Remember what a scandal this was? Remember how upset the IRS was, when it came out that the budget for their raptor-breeding facility as only about half the size of Harvard University’s?

Centaur Escapes from Government Raptor Facility

They never did catch the centaur who got away. He melted effortlessly into the general population. As for the raptor farm, so far all efforts to shut it down have been overturned by a federal judge appointed by President *Batteries Not Included.

Every now and then one escapes and eats people.

 

‘Why Man Cannot Be God (Reason No. 214,989,112)’ (2016)

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Even geniuses sometimes come up with ideas that would hardly do credit to a monkey.

Robert Fulton invented the steamship, revolutionizing transportation. But he also came up with this turkey–and spent half a million tax dollars, a staggering sum in 1814, to do it.

Why Man Cannot Be God (Reason No. 214,989,112 )

Let’s see if I can get you a picture of this baby.

That tiny little thing in the middle is the paddle wheel. There is no steering gear. You’d think at least someone would have noticed these defects, somewhere along the way. Maybe no one dared say anything.

They actually built this floating funhouse.

Then there was the Soviet “land battleship,” but that’s another story.

‘So You Want to Give More Power to the Government?’ (2015)

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If you go on a diet that’s supposed to make you lose weight, and instead of losing weight, you just keep getting fatter and fatter…. do you stay on that diet?

So You Want to Give More Power to the Government?

Of course you wouldn’t. Why, then, do we keep on giving more and more power to a government that doesn’t know what to do with the power it already has?”Let us Save The Planet!”

No way, sunshine.

Oops… $5 Billion Up the Spout

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The little engine that couldn’t

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has canceled his state’s infamous “high-speed rail” project, saying it would cost too much (ya think?) and take too long (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/12/california-governor-gavin-newsom-cancels-high-speed-rail-would-cost-too-much-and-take-too-long/).

In 2008 this pipe dream was born, and nursed by then-governor Jerry Brown, as the answer to California’s perceived overuse of the car. The original estimated cost of creating a “bullet train” linking San Francisco and Los Angeles: $37 billion.

By now they’ve already spent $5 billion, with nothing to show for it, the estimated cost has swollen to $77 billion–maybe as high as $100 billion, some say–and could not be finished earlier than 2033.

California also ran into a problem when a lot of the people in really expensive neighborhoods, who initially voted for the project, discovered the train would run through their own vicinity. So they changed their minds about it in a hurry, and opposed it. This phenomenon has its own acronym, NIMBY–“Not In My Back Yard.” Somehow their own cherished Green New Deal project totally lost its appeal for them.

The $5 billion is spent and gone. It cannot and will not be recovered.

Big Government–it trashes everything it touches.