Senator Coburn's Wastebook

[toehanus]

Ya'll criticize much?

Yes, why do you ask?

 

[RickN]

Guys the point is if they did not waste so much money they could take care of those who really need help, defend the country, take us to Mars, etc, etc without cutting anything or raising taxes. Waste needs to be cut first along with fraud and over duplication, next un-needed programs and agencies. Then and only then should they look at cutting services or raising taxes.

 

[DirtyDawg]

What's $30 Billion a year in waste, when the FED prints $85 Billion a month..............

 

[RickN]

What's $30 Billion a year in waste, when the FED prints $85 Billion a month..............

A billion here and a billion there, and sooner or later you are talking about some real money.

Seriously your post is exactly how they think in government and a big part of the reason things have gotten so out of control. Besides that $30 billion is just a quick 100 things they found. It does not dig into things that deep or cover stuff that is still happening from years past.

 

[aeropb]

With all due respect it depends how you define waste.

 

[Nimaro]

Guys the point is if they did not waste so much money they could take care of those who really need help, defend the country, take us to Mars, etc, etc without cutting anything or raising taxes. Waste needs to be cut first along with fraud and over duplication, next un-needed programs and agencies. Then and only then should they look at cutting services or raising taxes.

That makes to much sense Rick

 

[Dale00]

With all due respect it depends how you define waste.

Exactly. Coburn's picks were carefully chosen not to offend any of his supporters or to bring condemnation down of him from the media.

Dr. No, the crusading government waste fighter, is the image he seeks to project.

 

[RickN]

With all due respect it depends how you define waste.

How about $5.4 million for incinerators that do not work, paying for monkey houses at VA hospitals that do not have monkeys and have not in decades, thousands of government buildings sitting vacant while they spend millions every year on upkeep?

 

[aeropb]

How about $5.4 million for incinerators that do not work, paying for monkey houses at VA hospitals that do not have monkeys and have not in decades, thousands of government buildings sitting vacant while they spend millions every year on upkeep?

How about 2,400 F-35's for $200,000,000 each? We'll totally outgun the rest of the world then.

 

[WTJ]

How about 2,400 F-35's for $200,000,000 each? We'll totally outgun the rest of the world then.

Well, not exactly. They don't seem to fly completely right just yet ya see. However, for a nominal upgrade fee*, the Deluxe model, which is a Jiant Killer, will work.

*Maybe. Just need a few more cost overruns driven by the latest set of multi-mission parameters and subcontractor interface programs. We can field the system at its incipient obsolescence milestone, then begin the needed replacement program while executing 496 interim block upgrades and mission adaptation modifications.

Wait, wut? The threat is a unglateborne indiginee equipped with ComBlock surplus and a bad attitude? You say that a existing, modified aerial application aircraft may possibly be the best fixed-wing platform available to counter the threat? Doooood, that has NO CDI factor. We could fill the sky with 200,000,000 of them for the cost of one F-35? COIN? We are trying to spend COIN!

Yeah, no.