An influential Pentagon official who also served as a presidential consultant and Navy Secretary persuaded the U.S. government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a useless anthrax drug manufactured by his biotech firm. Can you say the fleecing of America? This would be unfathomable if it weren’t laid out in a lengthy article

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As if it weren’t bad enough that a record 47.7 million people—and growing—get food stamps from the U.S. government, federal records reveal that a whopping 1/3 of Puerto Rico’s population receives them. This cost American taxpayers an astounding $2 billion last year, according to figures released by the government agency—the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)—that

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For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it. The retired assistant case manager, Craig McNees, was in charge of vetting food-stamp applicants in north Florida

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Surprise surprise; the Obama administration’s minority farmer cash giveaway has proven to be a “magnet for fraud” and a “runaway train driven by racial politics,” according to a mainstream newspaper that’s well known for its pro Obama coverage not to mention strict political correctness. Yet in a lengthy piece the paper trashes the administration’s multi-billion-dollar

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A massive project to construct federal courts is mired in secrecy and will cost U.S. taxpayers billions more than originally estimated by the agency that continues to unscrupulously get checks from Congress for the deals. Just what Americans want to hear in the midst of a financial crisis and record unemployment! It involves a five-year

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Here is an enraging example of reckless government spending; The United States blows more than the entire economy of most countries to enforce the many rules and regulations of its numerous federal agencies. Can you say government on steroids? It’s a crazy system in which a bloated government meddles in areas that it shouldn’t. This

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As the nation’s economy sinks into a deeper ditch, a federal audit reveals that the U.S. government blows tens of billions of dollars on duplicative programs that end up fleecing taxpayers year after year. Even more enraging is that the government has long been aware that this is occurring but seems to have no sense

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A decade after the U.S. started the war in Iraq American taxpayers are still funding an exorbitant  “reconstruction” effort in the Middle Eastern nation and a chunk of the money—billions—has been lost to fraud and corruption. This isn’t something that’s been widely covered because most media lost interest after the last U.S. troops left Iraq

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Because it’s considered defacement and vandalism, graffiti is a crime yet the U.S. government has spent $1.5 million to actually preserve some left during the hostile Indian occupation of California’s Alcatraz Island more than four decades go. Why is Indian graffiti worth preserving when local governments across the nation spend tens of millions of dollars

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After getting slammed with higher taxes, Americans throughout the U.S. will be on the hook for the multi-billion-dollar infusion necessary to complete a grossly mismanaged high-speed rail system in California.  Even those who have never been to the state and have no association with it will contribute because federal lawmakers have essentially agreed to fund

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