Obama's Latest Spending SNAFU's

Nothing surprises us anymore with this Obama led government. E V E R D A Y there is something new, something more that shows we have an out of control and incompetent bunch of people at the helm of this ship. From the Chief Executive on down there is no leadership, decisions made that are ludicrous bordering on stupidity and not in the best interest of the American people. 

President Obama, earlier this year, invoked sequester (the automatic budget cuts) saying we have no money because

Wasted Brick & Mortar

he and Congress could not come together on what to cut and how much. We saw such ridiculous things as White House tours shelved, government workers furloughed and military pilots stopped from taking much needed and necessary training flights.

No money, says the administration. It's because you waste it, Mr. President. Case in point: this week it was learned that a $34 million military facility built in Afghanistan has never been occupied or in any way utilized and it will be torn down. Incompetence comes in to play here because (1) even though the military said it

Jay Carney

was not needed, it was built anyway and (2) when Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked about it at the daily press briefing, he claimed to know nothing about it, despite it being all over the national news. Read More: Carney Not Up To Speed

Of course, one has to wonder which news accounts Carney was watching, if any. If it was the so-called main streamers they probably downplayed the issue, if they ran it at all, so as not to embarrass their beloved president. 

But there is more waste spent in the Middle East, as reported at rt.com :

"The US military recently spent $45 million on a facility to repair armored vehicles in Kandahar province, which is now being used as a location to sort through equipment being shipped out of the country, the Post reported. Last year, the State Department also abandoned plans to turn a large building into a consulate - after spending more than $80 million on a 10-year lease.
The wasteful spending on extravagant structures in Afghanistan closely mirrors US spending in Iraq. The US spent $60 billion to rebuild Iraq, but a final report from Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen concluded that more than $9 billion was wasted."

These, of course, are not the only incidents of blown taxpayer dollars. This administration is ripe with it, from the "green" industry to agencies such as the IRS and GSA (Government Services Administration) spending millions on lavish conferences, to the train wreck known as Obamacare and need we not forget the president's own over-blown vacations, most recently the $100 million spent on a jaunt to Africa. Waste in government can be found in the halls of every government building.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. is a bulldog when it comes to wasteful government spending. A lot of it you won't believe. Read More: Coburn tags Govt. Waste

The sad part of all this is, as the national debt barrels toward $17 trillion this president and this government doesn't seem to care.



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