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Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’

posted by janrinok on Friday September 06 2019, @09:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-your-tax-dollars-are-spent dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), chairman of the Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management (FSO) Subcommittee for the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), continued his efforts to reform the big-spending status quo with the release of a Summer 2019 edition of The Waste Report.

Once again, Dr. Paul's Waste Report turns the spotlight on just some of the ways the federal government spends the American people's hard-earned money, with this edition including stories of building up Tunisia's political system and the Pakistani film industry, supporting "green growth" in Peru, teaching English and IT skills at madrassas, studying frog mating calls, making improper payments, and more.

https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-releases-summer-2019-edition-%E2%80%98-waste-report%E2%80%99

The biggest seem to be:

Converted an abandoned mental hospital into DHS HQ (GSA and DHS) .......... $2,120,040,355.35
Paid out billions from Medicare in improper payments (CMS) ....................... $48,000,000,000

[Editor's Comment: The full 15-page report is found in a Scribd display on the given link.]

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Sulla on Friday September 06 2019, @10:37PM (2 children)

    by Sulla (5173) on Friday September 06 2019, @10:37PM (#890737) Journal

    Whatever the outcome of the grant, one thing is certain, at the very least. Before we send $150,000 in American taxes abroad to teach English and IT skills, we should first consider our own country’s situation.

    The most recent American Community Survey run by the Census Bureau determined that 8.5 percent of Americans ages five and up are limited in English proficiency. Meanwhile, according to the Pew Research Center in 2019, one in ten Americans do not go on the internet. According to a 2013 Pew survey, of the percentage then that did not use the internet, roughly one third believed it “was too difficult to use. …”

    In TFA the complaint is about spending at foreign schools when our own are doing so poorly.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:11AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:11AM (#890802)

    But he doesn't want to fund those either!? And who was the prick with the same idea that wanted to abolish the dept. of energy?

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @06:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @06:08PM (#891041)

      look, you dumb ass statist fuck, the Us government is not supposed to have 4 million depts involved in every facet of citizen life.