Senator Coburn's Wastebook

[toehanus]

I was just reading an article about the waste book that Sen. Coburn publishes. He outlined $30 billion in wasteful spending. At first, I like how he outlined this waste and then it hit me...he ONLY found $30 billion? With a 2013 budget of $3.8 trillion that's all he found as wasteful? That's like saying you spend $100 and only $.70 was wasted. Holy crap! Somebody please tell me I am missing something from this report. Maybe it is the most absurd wasteful spending.....

 

[Old Fart]

I saw a link on yahoo and it was quite a bit more than that. Seems like they wasted $100 million on romance novels.

 

[RickN]

He does it every year and he always comes up with billions in waste. Bad part is that they will cut vet benefits and other good things, but never the waste.

 

[toehanus]

I looked up the actual book on Coburn's website. It's $30 billion. A drop in the bucket.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Coburn is Washington waste

 

[Old Fart]

Linky link http://www.news9.com/story/24241194/wastebook-report-singles-out-30b-in-federal-spending

 

[chuter]

These are just 100 examples that add up to $30 billion, I don't see where he says that's the total of gov waste.

http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=0cc34c92-b901-425d-a131-d3151d7216ef

"These are only a few of the 100 examples of government mismanagement and stupidity included in
Wastebook 2013. Collectively these cost nearly $30 billion in a year when Washington would have you
believe everything that could be done has been done to control unnecessary spending."

 

[NightShade]

And how much money did it cost to put together the study to find wasteful spending? How much good did it do to publish the information?

 

[Jwryan84]

And how much money did it cost to put together the study to find wasteful spending? How much good did it do to publish the information?

We his constituents are talking about it so it is doing some good. At least we know about it and possibly do something about it.

 

[ronny]

Ya'll criticize much?