Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News

A Million Here, A Million There....

Outspoken conservative columnist Charley Reese recently shared some examples of absurdly wasteful pork barrel spending, as compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste. Here's just a few examples of your tax dollars at work:

$1.9 million to supervise the Teamsters election.
$3 million for a New Orleans jazz museum.
$1 million for the "Center for Irish Management." (???)
$25 million for aid to that bastion of liberty, North Korea.
$800,000 for the Suffolk County, NY police athletic league.

....... and the examples just go on and on and on. A million bucks may be small in comparison to the federal budget, but it's a lot of money, and the endless examples of such idiotic waste quickly add up to big money even by federal standards.

This article appeared in the free, biweekly electronic newsletter -- The Liberator OnLine.

Visit our sponsor: