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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @08:11AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @08:11AM (#890883)

    Look at cuba where they have nearly none of the access to "modern healthcare" but nearly equal lifespans.

    And you know why? Because they smoke cuban cigars, that's why. Smoke is good for preservation, it's a fact that has been know for millenia.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @02:15PM (#890974)

    Magical thinking at its finest.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday September 08 2019, @01:38PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday September 08 2019, @01:38PM (#891281) Homepage Journal

    Puts a protective coating of tar on their lungs. Like Teflon against air pollution.

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