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Have you seen the 2015 Congressional Wastebook by Senator Jeff Flake? It's aptly titled "The Farce Awakens”
Senator Flake’s office has just released a “Star Wars”version of the 2015 Congressional Wastebook. The book details 100 examples of wasteful spending, which amounts to more than $100 billion. To give us some perspective the 2015 VA budget was just over $160 billion.
Some examples of wasteful spending include: Subsidizing rent for thousands of americans who earn six-figure salaries or have over $1 million in assets, over half-a-billion dollars intended for defense and security that went to projects that did nothing to make us safer and may actually have made us less safe, and my favorite, a $2 million campaign by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to encourage US tourism to Lebanon, while the U.S. State Department urged Americans to avoid the country due to a heightened risk of attacks and kidnapping by terrorists.
http://www3.blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/flake-channels-the-force-to-fight-government-waste/
Senator Flake’s office has just released a “Star Wars”version of the 2015 Congressional Wastebook. The book details 100 examples of wasteful spending, which amounts to more than $100 billion. To give us some perspective the 2015 VA budget was just over $160 billion.
Some examples of wasteful spending include: Subsidizing rent for thousands of americans who earn six-figure salaries or have over $1 million in assets, over half-a-billion dollars intended for defense and security that went to projects that did nothing to make us safer and may actually have made us less safe, and my favorite, a $2 million campaign by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to encourage US tourism to Lebanon, while the U.S. State Department urged Americans to avoid the country due to a heightened risk of attacks and kidnapping by terrorists.
http://www3.blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/flake-channels-the-force-to-fight-government-waste/
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It was presented by Flake, where does it say authored by Sessions?
Flake is a moderate and I would mostly trust him, but Sessions is a very extreme right conservative who I would only trust to lie.
Flake is a moderate and I would mostly trust him, but Sessions is a very extreme right conservative who I would only trust to lie.
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MSgt James Mullis
Good catch I'll correct the title. Sessions did one last year and apparently there are a number of Senator's jumping on the wasteful spending bandwagon. Senators John McCain of Arizona, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Dan Coats of Indiana, James Lankford, of Oklahoma and Jeff Flake of Arizona have all put out versions of their own.
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LTC (Join to see)
Strange that only Republicans are involved, and inherently less trustworthy because anything that isn't bipartisan has, by definition, a partisan slant.
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