{"id":24142,"date":"2014-10-23T16:33:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24142"},"modified":"2014-10-23T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T20:33:17","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24142","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBN News<\/a> posted an article today about the release of Republican Sen. Tom Coburn<\/a>‘s annual “Wastebook” report,<\/a> which lists 100 examples of wasteful government spending<\/a> totaling $25 billion.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Examples of wasteful federal spending include the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n

$10,000 to watch grass grow at a Florida<\/a> reserve<\/strong><\/p>\n

$19 million in paid vacations for government workers, about a third of whom were placed on “administrative leave<\/a>” for disciplinary reasons, including criminal offenses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

$350 million to build a launch pad tower that was mothballed immediately because the rockets it was designed to test had been scrapped years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n

The report also found the State Department<\/a> used part of its $3 million counterterrorism communications budget to debate terrorists<\/a> on Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why are we debating terrorists on Twitter? Why not use their smart phones to located them and deal with them in a way that prevents terrorism (use your imagination)?<\/p>\n

This is another reason we need a new Congress<\/a> that will put a stop to this foolishness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CBN News posted an article today about the release of Republican Sen. Tom Coburn‘s annual “Wastebook” report, which lists 100 examples of wasteful government spending totaling $25 billion. The article reports: Examples of wasteful federal spending include the following: $10,000 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7006,140,172,558,1609,2561,1178,6792],"class_list":["post-24142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-25-billion","tag-florida","tag-government-spending","tag-nasa","tag-tom-coburn","tag-twitter","tag-united-states-department-of-state","tag-wastebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24143,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142\/revisions\/24143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}