Government is Taking Our Money and Spending it Wastefully

Over the last year, Unites State Government has passed several unprecedented spending bills. Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of the Stimulus Bills. Lawmakers told us that these bills were needed to save the economy. One look at the government’s spending report for Fiscal Year 2009 provides multiply examples of wasteful government spending.

Hawaii and Guam are spending millions on controlling brown snakes. In Fiscal Year 2009, Representatives Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Representative Madeline Bordallo (D-Guam) requested $1.2 million. Representatives Hirono and Borallo requested the money to control brown snakes. Even more astonishing, similar requests were made each of the last 14 years. A total of $14.6 million has been used to control brown snakes.

$50,000 for tree replacement. House of Representatives Appropriator Carolyn Kilpatrick ( D-Mich ) requested $50,000 for tree replacement. The tree was in River Rouge, MI. River Rouge, MI is a town of less than 10,000 people. Maybe the trees did need replaced but why should the federal government pay for it? Just because Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich) could get it done and maybe get a few votes? Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich), thank you for a shining example of wasteful government spending.

Lets talk about the outlandish Military Spending going on in this country. Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee member Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), and Representative Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), requested $30,000,000 for Phase Five of an access road at the Pohakuloa Training Area. Since 2002 this Training Area has received six earmarks worth $74.4 million. How many Phases does an access road have? Is 70 plus million not enough to complete this project? Why is it taking the better part of 7 years to complete? When a project raises this many questions from an everyday civilian, then theres definitely something wrong. We have kids walking into schools and maliciously shooting other children. Why dont we invest this money on something much more important, like keeping illegal guns off the streets and out of the hands of children, possibly even a Gun Awareness and Education Program..

Veterans benefits and military spending have received a large amount of attention. Our military veterans deserve the best benefits money can buy. This spending story has nothing to do with veterans benefits. It is about a request for money to build a dining hall. Representative Louise Slaughter joined then Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in requesting $9 million to build a dining hall at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.

And last but not least, lets end this with an extremely wasteful way to spend money. We can thank the Department of Agriculture and Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee member Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). He requested $1,791,000 for Swine Odor and Manure Management Research in Ames IA. The so called purpose of this bill is to generate and integrate knowledge for evaluation and development of new management practices that minimize nutrient excretion, malodorous emissions, and the release of pathogens into the environment as well as have a positive impact on animal health.

Now I can call Bull when I see it. We seriously have to spend 1.8 million to find out why swine manure stinks? Thats ridiculous. Has anyone took the initiative to study the human feces to see if we excrete nutrients. If the time was taken to study this then they would more then likely determine that humans excrete nutrients in their feces as well. Also, as for odor control, we as humans, have invented the toilet. Why not spend this money on creating a sanitary way to not only dispose of the swine manure, but it would also act to control the odor. There is no reason to do a study on why manure has an odor. It always has and always will. Thats part of anatomy. Lets spend this money on something more important, like finding homes for all the children who are abandoned at birth and given up for adoption of just left out on the Hospitals doorstep.

Military branches are always researching new weapon systems. It is necessary to keep America the superpower that we are and protect our citizens. It is not surprising the Department of Defense is developing a new jet plane. The Joint Strike Fighter has been in development for several years. Congress decided that the current engine needed competition to make it cheaper. They alotted $465,000,000 to develop a second engine. There was nothing wrong with the current engine being tested. Congress just wanted more competition.

A total of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives have refused to be associated with this bill by remaining anonymous. Hint, hint, anyone? If the officials we have elected are hiding their voices and not wanting to be tagged with this, then why has the millions of dollars even been allotted for these mind blowing bills? $465 million for competition level engines? I urge you to pick up the phone, call your local Representative, and let them know how utterly disgusted you are with the way taxpayer’s dollars are being spent.

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