Coburn: This is what $30 billion in government waste looks like « Hot Air

Coburn: This is what $30 billion in government waste looks like « Hot Air: "Sen. Tom Coburn’s office has been compiling a report on some of the most egregious examples of government waste for a few years now, and the “nearly $30 billion in questionable and lower-priority spending in Wastebook 2013 is a small fraction of the more than $200 billion we throw away every year through fraud, waste, duplication and mismanagement.” Whatever other hand-wringing our elected representatives may do over the billions of dollars that should-or-should-not be cut from food stamps, or sequestration, or what have you, there is plenty of federal waste there for the axing if politicians could just get their collective act together and make a priority out of it. The instant classics from last year’s Wastebook included $27 million for Moroccan pottery classes at the Agency for International Development and a university grant to the tune of several hundred thousands dollars for experiments with robotic squirrels, and sadly, some of this year’s headliners are just as facepalm-worthy."

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