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21 Sep 2010, 8:36 am
As the national financial crisis worsens and states across the country hit record high unemployment rates, the U.S. will contribute tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to replace “inefficient cook stoves” contributing to climate change and deforestation in developing countries. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 8:23 am
While President Obama calls on companies to insource overseas jobs back to the U.S., the federal government is spending millions of dollars to help foreigners learn enough English to work in offshore call centers for American businesses. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 12:51 pm
Here’s an amusing example of how inefficient government can be; a proposed law to cut waste in a scandal-plagued green technology program at the Department of Energy (DOE) would cost about $1 million to implement. [read post]
9 May 2019, 9:13 pm
Two Los Angeles County residents have been charged for their alleged involvement in an immigration scheme allowing them to illegally obtain $1.5 million from Chinese nationals with the false promise of visas. 34-year-old West Covina resident Nianfei Bu, and 37-year-old Hourong Zhang, from Rowland Heights, were taken into custody on Thursday after purportedly pilfering cash from Chinese nationals in 2015 and 2016. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 12:30 pm
With a national debt that tops $14 trillion and a colossal budget deficit, the U.S. government is dishing out $60 million to study the effects of climate change on crops and forests. [read post]
18 Jun 2010, 9:00 am
While the Obama Administration allows Mexican smuggling violence to shut down thousands of acres of public parklands in Arizona, it’s giving the state more than a million bucks to save an “endangered” rodent. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 8:18 am
In an egregious move, the scandal-plagued mortgage giants bailed out by U.S. taxpayers awarded the inept executives responsible for their financial ruin with tens of millions of dollars. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 9:41 am
How considerate of the Justice Department to finally cut back on the extravagant work conferences that stick it to U.S. taxpayers with exorbitant tabs for overpriced food, beverages and fancy party planners. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 10:36 am
As the presidential election approaches, the potential for voter fraud is dangerously high nationwide with nearly 2 million dead people still registered to cast ballots, about 3 million eligible to vote in two or more states and millions more that are inaccurate, duplicate or out of date. [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 10:04 am
With no end in sight to the devastating unemployment rate, the nation’s Department of Labor (DOL) is dedicating nearly $11 million to foreign-language programs that help workers with “low literacy or limited English proficiency. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 4:24 am
Last week an EEOC race harassment and discrimination lawsuit against a major transportation company ended with an $11 million consent decree. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 10:56 am
As if it weren’t bad enough that the misconduct of federal prosecutors led to the reversal of a corrupt U.S. senator’s criminal conviction, American taxpayers have been left with the exorbitant cost of defending the government lawyers who botched the case. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 9:49 am
In a classic example of how the government blows taxpayer money, the federal agency responsible for protecting investors and preserving market integrity dropped nearly $557 million on office space it will never use and lied to cover up the wrongdoing. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 6:40 am
The Obama Administration keeps pouring huge sums of taxpayer dollars into the coffers of leftist groups that specialize in “housing counseling” for minorities seeking a good home or struggling to keep one on the verge of foreclosure. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 8:36 am
A highly-touted presidential order to stop federal agencies from sending taxpayer dollars to dead and incarcerated people hasn’t kicked in because the government sent them more than $22 million last year as part of Obama’s disastrous stimulus program. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 9:27 am
The Obama Administration has spent $36.2 million on studies that justify awarding huge sums to leftist groups that help poor minorities with “housing counseling,” a Judicial Watch investigation has found. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 8:40 am
Two former employees who worked at the high-end Bond No. 9 perfume shop have filed a lawsuit alleging that the owner, Laurice Rahme, is a racist who called African-Americans "thieves". [read post]
13 May 2011, 8:06 am
The government agency that’s wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to study how global warming effects crops, recruit more food-stamp recipients and bring healthy cuisine to the inner city has dropped a couple million on a device that tracks what minority public school children eat for lunch. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 12:24 pm
In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls. [read post]
29 Aug 2009, 12:34 pm
A jury in the 4th District Court in Provo, Utah recently awarded $4.4 million to the family of a Payson man who died of injuries he sustained in a horrible auto accident. [read post]
