The federal government is broke, but federal workers received $439 million on bonuses last year on top of their generous pay and benefit packages. No comment from the Obama White House.


GOP targets salaries, 'offensive' bonuses of federal workers - TheHill.com

3 On Your Side: Pennsylvania Giving Away Free Booze At Your Expense? « CBS Philly

10 Surprising Facts About Free Government Cell Phones

Report: Millionaires get $30 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies

Which Obama minion at the State Department got the bright idea to use taxpayer dollars to buy copies of Obama's book? And Democrats keep saying there's no place to cut federal spending.

State Dept. spends $70K on Obama books - Washington Times

Another classic example of government waste. A 2005 law forces the U.S. Mint to continue to produce new dollar coins even though the public refuses to use them. So the government just stores them. It's a vicious cycle of wasting your tax dollars.

Dollar coins piling up at Baltimore reserve bank

Deroy Murdock: National scandal of green jobs - timesherald.com

Top 10 Green Job Fiascoes - HUMAN EVENTS

No wonder Barack Obama wants to raise taxes. He needs to come up with more money for snacks.

$16 muffins? Federal report details costly conferences

$500,000 in Stimulus Used to Create 1 Green Job | Red Dog Report

It must have been tough for the folks at Human Events to narrow the list down to 10.

Top 10 Examples of Government Stupidity - HUMAN EVENTS

Lights Out! Big Government's Insidious Creep Inside Your Home - HUMAN EVENTS

From Investor's Business Daily:

On top of the other failures of President Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan you can now add this: It didn't even fulfill the simple promise of creating more highway jobs and improving roadways.

Read the full editorial at the link below:

A Shovel-Empty Waste Of $787 Billion - Investors.com

Prepaid Cards for Unemployed Workers: Who Holds the Winning Hand?

A tour bus used by former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell to push his big government agenda - at taxpayer expense - will be sold, Gov. Tom Corbett announced Wednesday.

Corbett called the bus a "white elephant" that cost Pennsylvania taxpayers more than $66,000 for maintenance "despite it being driven less than 26,000 miles in eight years."

It appears Rendell shot the transmission on the bus, leaving behind an anticipated repair bill of at least $5,000.

"My administration is committed to refocusing state spending on the core functions of government and that does not include maintaining a 41-foot motor coach that has largely sat in the garage," Corbett said in a press release. "This fiscal year alone taxpayers have paid for batteries, towing and window tinting. As of today, we will not ask taxpayers to put one more cent into the upkeep of this vehicle."

On a more serious note, Corbett has commissioned a review of the state's massive vehicle fleet to determine if the state can save money by reducing the number of vehicles it owns.

Read the full release at the link below:

Governor Corbett Sends Defunct Tour Bus to the Auction Block

How many different ways can this guy find to waste our money?

On the heels of 'ObamaCare' conservatives target 'ObamaRail' - The Hill's Transportation Report

A Pennsylvania lawmaker wants to know why Philadelphia will not be sharing the burden of Gov. Tom Corbett's proposed cuts in education funding?

PA State Rep. Scott Petri - Petri Calls for Investigation into School Funding Irregularities

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 228-192 today to end taxpayer subsidies for National Public Radio, a far-left propaganda operation.

If liberal elites want their own radio network, let them pay for it.

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell issued the following statement:

Republicans said today that the arrogant liberal sneers at taxpayers in Flyover Country deserve to be met by NPR raising its own money in its own fancy cafes. And an organization that admits catering to a "core audience that is predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite" is among the last that should survive budget cuts if legislators are serious about cutting unnecessary spending.

We applaud the 228 Representatives who stepped up to say so with their votes in the House today. If the Senate and President Obama really care about reckless spending, they'll pony up and do the same. The time is now to stop wasting taxpayer dollars on funding NPR.

House approves GOP bill to defund NPR - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room