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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.
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.]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @06:01PM (1 child)
That's the important difference. Are these bureaucrats deny you treatment innovative free market thinkers or appointed members on elite government death panels?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 08 2019, @02:08AM
Those so-called "free market thinkers" only answer to the insurance companies they work for. And, in case you haven't heard, insurance companies tend to make most of their decisions based on their bottom line. Not your bottom line. Not your personal health and well-being. And there are no government "death panels"; that was merely a scare tactic dreamed up by Sarah Palin. Her "inspiration" was a provision in the ACA which was supposed to encourage doctors to discuss end of life issues with their patients (particularly, their older patients) so that health care givers would understand what their patients would want if they were incapacitated and their end was approaching. (What's that? You thought you would live forever?) Also, government bureaucrats working for the government are answerable to the people through their elected representatives. At least theoretically.