Tom Coburn's 2014 Wastebook: $25 billion and counting

[ThisBrotherOfHis]

Tom Coburn highlights ridiculous government spending in final Wastebook

This year’s Wastebook does not show the $5,210 that the State Department tried to spend on a blowup, human-size foosball field for an embassy in Belize.

But the fact that the project isn’t in Sen. Tom Coburn’s annual report on ridiculous spending choices is probably one of the biggest victories of the report, because it means the State Department canceled the project after the senator’s staffers asked about it.

It’s the other 100 projects in the report — including subsidies for professional sports stadiums and grants to study gambling monkeys — that the Oklahoma Republican said should have taxpayers steaming.

Over the years Coburn has been compiling government waste on ridiculous, ignorant and totally useless "studies" and expenditures, he has shown that there isn't a single government department that doesn't act like they have money to burn. But Coburn is retiring because of health issues.

The problem is, it's my money. It's your money. It's our money. This nonsense needs to stop. And until it does, somebody in the House or Senate needs to step up and keep the Wastebook printing every year.

 

[BigDaddy4]

Over the years Coburn has been compiling government waste on ridiculous, ignorant and totally useless "studies" and expenditures, he has shown that there isn't a single government department that doesn't act like they have money to burn. But Coburn is retiring because of health issues.

The problem is, it's my money. It's your money. It's our money. This nonsense needs to stop. And until it does, somebody in the House or Senate needs to step up and keep the Wastebook printing every year.

I wish more politicians were concerned about how they spend my, your, and our money.

 

[abysmul]

Dollar figure seems really low, sadly.

 

[ThisBrotherOfHis]

Dollar figure seems really low, sadly.

I'm sure it is. The really wasteful projects get hidden in contractor profit/loss statements and "black budget items" in every department.