As Chris Rock used to say, “Nobody goes to Hooters for the wings.” And it’s true this time also.  In this case, teachers from Waterloo, Iowa wanted $30 steak dinners.  Plus, they wanted you to pay for them: In Vegas, [...]

More wasteful spending from the failed Stimulus Plan.  This time, hundreds of enterprise grade routers, meaning routers that can handle office building computer systems of up to 500 different computers, were purchased by West Virginia with Stimulus money.  One of [...]

I have a Droid X with an expensive Verizon plan. It’s a decent phone, but I try to get a little money each month freelancing to pay for the bill. It’s over $100 a month. If I just didn’t bother [...]

In 2005, an Inspector General report was released that showed the government paying out millions of dollars to dead people. The government, which President Obama says will trim the deficit by eliminating wasteful spending, shrugged it off.  The payments continued [...]

It’s a food stamp nation, what with 45.8 million Americans collecting the benefits in May, up from 44 million in April: That’s an all-time high, up 12 percent from a year ago and an astonishing 34 percent from two years [...]

Mexican trucks have been coming across the southern border legally since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement passed 17 years ago. They have never been considered safe. They have never been considered clean. So, rather than mandate [...]

I work in Nebraska, live in Missouri.  Every year when I do my taxes, I get a refund from Nebraska and have to pay Missouri. Every year. So where are my taxes in Missouri going? Hawaii, Texas, California, Alaska and [...]

Who would have thought that with a $3.8 trillion budget that one would find such waste: For example, there are 82 federal programs involved in teacher quality, 80 programs involved in economic development, and over 100 programs involved in surface [...]

Remember the headline tonight when you hear President Obama talking about spending freezes and fiscal responsibility. When it came time to show their hands, the Democrats had theirs deep in your pockets: Congressional Republicans on Tuesday sought to put President [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubled down on her assertion that food stamps actually boost the nation’s economy, acting as a stimulus of sorts: At a press conference in her home town of San Francisco, Pelosi explained that the program’s multiplier effect [...]

I wonder if they thought the busses would go faster… The MTA Bus Company was created in 2004 to absorb seven private companies operating under franchises from the New York City Department of Transportation. Diesel fuel powers 78 percent of [...]

Milwaukee Public Schools are slated to rake in almost $100 million in the stimulus package passed by the House.  The package is under heavy scrutiny in the Senate for including projects that simply will not stimulate the economy. However, money [...]