'Doggie Hamlet,' billion in missing military equipment top report on government waste

Here is one more for the day that I don't want anyone to miss... $437 billion dollars worth in “wasteful and inefficient” even if one consider that Senator might have a axe to grind and we use it to cut it into half we're still left with over $200+ Billion...Comments? Anyone want to debate me about Health Care now? I did not post the entire article but did post the link if you wish to read it.

"'Doggie Hamlet,' billion in missing military equipment top report on government waste"
"An $85 million loan for a hotel complex in Kabul, a billion dollars in missing equipment for Iraqi forces and a $30,000 grant to stage “Doggie Hamlet” are just a few examples of the “Federal Fumbles” a Republican senator has flagged in a new report on wasteful government spending.

The 86-page report from Sen. James Lankford identified $437.6 billion in “wasteful and inefficient” federal spending.

Lankford said the billion in missing equipment in Iraq -- which was flagged in a Defense Department inspector general’s report and included small arms and Humvees -- was last seen in Kuwait.

“But we don’t know what happened from there,” Lankford said Monday. “A billion dollars’ worth of equipment. We hope it got into the right hands. But DoD didn’t actually track it. We don’t know.”

As for “Doggie Hamlet,” the report criticized a National Endowment for the Arts grant for the production in New Hampshire. The play reportedly featured actors yelling and running at sheep in a field."

'Doggie Hamlet,' billion in missing military equipment top report on government waste

 

I would really like to know what our actual tax rate would be in this country if we could get rid of the .govs wasteful spending, special interests programs, worthless .gov grants giveaways , fraudulent welfare programs/ recipients , etc. The .gov treats us like their never ending bank account , and we have no say over it.

 

I know of 24 C-127J sitting on the ground in Kandahr having been flown in and parked, never to be flown again, brand new, just delivered by the United States for their Air Force! There are countless other wastes of stuff supplied to those who don't need, or even deserve!
Then there is the deal with Iran over a bunch of jets that were subsidized before the trade sanctins against them, and we had to pay them in cash for all that and more! Whisky Tango Foxtrot!!!

 

I'll just say that I see a lot of beat up ACOG's and Schmidt & Bender optics on Walmart rifles.

 

You and me both, SB21. This country is rich beyond anything one could imagine. The problem is, as everyone knows, is management. What they are careful to do is continue to toss crumbs to the populous to ensure compliance, nothing major just crumbs to keep them in line. Plus good old fashion patriotic propaganda tied with complete control of the laws (writing them to obtain what they want such, case in point ObamaCare) and don't look to our Judicial system to save us. They have their own agenda. Put my old grandmother in charge of the check book for this country and in 5 years we would be solvent and rolling in clover. There is plenty of money to do with whatever this country needs and wants. The problem is how it is spent.

We think that we American citizens run this country by government of the people, by the people, for the people but in truth we're nothing but piggy banks and cannon fodder and so our are children and children's children...

 

We haven't been "free" for 100 years, ever since Wilson and it got a lot worse under Roosevelt. It doesn't seem to matter who we elect, as soon as they get to DC they go corrupt. That whole cesspool needs a serious dose of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. For you twits at NSA that's treatment for cancer NOT biological and nuclear warfare.