‘Mapping The Swamp’ Report Shows It’s Even Bigger, Costlier Than You Think

www.lifesett.com ^ | 12/27/17 | Mark Tapscott

[Paladin2]

How much is Rosenweasel paying Weasel Mueller per hour?

[Liz]

All of that's bad enough.....just wait'll the taxpayers find out:

<><> how much our leisure loving, do-nothing Congress is costing us.

<><> how much the Kenyan half-caste is costing us in retrement-----with a stratospheric "federal inheritance."

<><> how much Obama took from slush funds to fund his do-good scams.....

<><> Obama gave Michele $100 million dollars "to teach Muslim girls in Morocco" from the State Dept's Millenium Fund----to be held and doled out by the Obama Foundation.

<><> how much ex-president Clinton---a billionaire---is costing us.

[Liz]

ping

[Robert DeLong]

paid $100,000 or more, up from 1,501 in 2012

That has got to be a misprint.

[TADSLOS]

How much of that has been churning back through the Clinton Crime Syndicate?

Here’s to 2018 being the Year of Sealed Indictments and the ribbon cutting of the GITMO Expansion Project.

[i_robot73]

And The People, as well as 50 States\territories, refuse to reign Fedzilla back to its LEGAL and Constitutional A1S8 bounds.

IOW, there is not a PLETHORA of ‘issue(s)\problem(s)’ that CANNOT be solved by the same.

[bigbob]

Time was, the FCC was run by engineers who understood communications technology. Now its run by lawyers who understand meddling.

[shotgun]

It’s all for the children so it’s okay

[AndyJackson]

You should be outraged at some of these figures, but this is the tip of the iceberg. All those Mutlimillion dolar houses in Patomac Md and McClean VA and “gentlemen’s farms” out in the VA and MD countryside are not being purchased on federal salaries. Those are being paid for by the so-called private sector - the crony capitalist sector that has always been their but got a shot of steroids after 9/11 with the “war on terror” including the contractors supporting DHS and DOD. And in case anyone thinks that these are efficient industrial organizations supplying the arsenal of democracy, remember, we don’t make anything much within 100 miles of DC except for powerpoint slides. It’s all beltway banditry and think-tankery.

[AndyJackson]

Time was, the FCC was run by engineers who understood communications technology. Now its run by lawyers who understand meddling.

Like my previous note, this has nothing to do with expertise and excellence in overseeing the common good, but dolling out special favors to cronies, taking legal bribes and providing cover so that no one goes to jail for marauding the public fisc and public trust.

[txhurl]

GITMO theory really gaining a foothold the last few days.

[shotgun]

My late father, who was a retired Army CWO2 and served between 1939 and 1963 and only had an 8th grade education, would always say that the problem with this country, from the time he retired until his death, was all of the professional students and “ass-perts” (experts). Also that WWII was won by people like him who barely had an 8th grade education.

[COBOL2Java]

[Vehmgericht]

At the 2009 Wall Street Journal’s Economics Conference Special Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, Matt Rogers, stated, “I’m Matt Rogers. I am the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Energy and I have $134 billion that I have to disperse between now and the end of December.” Paul Hollander, a “venture capitalist,” responded to this in an email, “Matt Rogers is about to get treated like a hooker dropped into a prison exercise yard.” When he shared this with Rogers, he was relieved the find that Rogers and his friends laughed at the suggestion.
“Congress should hold hearings.” Congress funds this nonsense and most members are beneficiaries of this system.

[gubamyster]

paid $100,000 or more, up from 1,501 in 2012 That has got to be a misprint.

From the article:

"A big reason for such a huge sum is that 1,807 of the federal government’s public relations workers are paid $100,000 or more, up from 1,501 in 2012."

An increase to 1,807 workers from 1,501. An increase of 306 workers.

[savedbygrace]

That has got to be a misprint

No, it's just that you didn't quote the entire sentence. Here it is:

A big reason for such a huge sum is that 1,807 of the federal government’s public relations workers are paid $100,000 or more, up from 1,501 in 2012.

There were 1,501 PR workers paid $11k or more in 2012 and now there are 1,807 PR workers paid $100k or more. That's an increase in the number of PR workers in fedgov who are paid $100k or more.

[AndyJackson]

This all got started under the Clintons and alores reinventing government initiative - bringing the efficiency of private boodling, err.... industry, to the public sector. It was small time then, however.

It really got going under Bush Cheney, 9/11, DHS and Iraq. The cronyism to put together the deal to invade Iraq, giving the socialists everything they wanted, the globalists everything they wanted and the crony-capitalists everything they wanted really got the swamp pumped up on steroids.

[Robert DeLong]

Thanks. 8>) Must be my tired eyes.

[savedbygrace]

I can identify with that. No worries.