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Florida Turtle Tunnel Protects Motorists Too

Michael Markarian | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Coburn, Economic Stimulus Package, Turtles, Florida, Government Waste, Animals, Taxpayers, Ecopassage, Wildlife, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Spending federal money to build a tunnel for turtles is not a fleecing of taxpayers. It's a wise solution to a pressing problem.

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Time to Curtail the Intelligence Community

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligence, Defense Spending, Government Waste, Intelligence Community, Budget Cuts, Politics News
Eric C. Anderson

Bloat and redundancy have turned the intelligence community into a full-time "make-work" program for approximately 70,000 federal employees and over 30,000 contractors.

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George W. Is No Martyr

Thomas Frank | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Conservatives, Harry Truman, Government Waste, Bush Legacy, Corporate Power, Presidential Campaign, Politics News
Thomas Frank

Let me be blunt. Let me be blunt like Harry Truman was blunt: Comparisons between Truman and Bush are nonsense.

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To Trim Government Fat (and Fix Food Production), Look No Further Than Our Bloated Farm Policy

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 01.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Government Waste, Farm Bills, Agriculture, Farmers, Agricultural Policy, Food, Sustainability, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

You don't need to be a Michael Pollan devotee to appreciate how thoroughly dysfunctional our agricultural policy is.

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Unauditable

Dina Rasor | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fraud, Pentagon Waste, Mccaskill, Obama, Government Waste, Obama Transition, DOD Contracting, Pentagon Spending, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Dina Rasor

It seems like every group has their hand out claiming that they need more money in these bad economic times. As messy as these problems are, there is no bigger mess than the Department of Defense.

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Iraq Waste, Fraud Bill Comes To $13 Billion

Washington Post | Dana Hedgpeth | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Fraud, Fraud, Government Waste, Iraq, Politics News

A former Iraqi official estimated yesterday that more than $13 billion meant for reconstruction projects in Iraq was wasted or stolen through elaborat...

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Iraq Contractors Have Cost $100 Billion, Goverment Says

The New York Times | James Risen | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Wire, Iraq Contractors, Government Waste, Private Contractors, Iraq, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The United States this year will have spent $100 billion on contractors in Iraq since the invasion in 2003, a milestone that reflects th...

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Bipartisan Scandal: Congress' Edifice Complex

John Fund | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Government Waste, Congress, Apple, Bipartisan, Federal Budget, Congressional Oversight, Ethics, Monument to Me, Earmarks, Monuments, Politics News
John Fund

Why does Congress hand out money to name buildings, bridges -- everything under the sun -- after its own living members? Until the 1960s, people had to die before they were memorialized in granite.

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