What are we trying to accomplish in the BudgetCruncher?

The BudgetCruncher Blog ^ | 5/14/09 | Paul Rivers

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Well, that's a big and bold question.

For the next few months, we're going to try to go over each and every section of the budget and show the waste, fraud and abuse in the budget alone. Things that a responsible party, whether it's the Republicans or a new party, built on the Tea Party movement, can use to show the American public just how bad the graft is.

We've all heard about "The Bridge to Nowhere". But, there are many, many things in the budget that you may not have heard about, and starting now, we're going to start exposing it. Bear in mind, bringing truth and light to the corruption that is the cesspool of Washington DC is difficult. They hide from the truth as hard as they can because the light of truth will destroy them.

Let's start with some of the basics.

Department of Labor overhead The WIA program (Workforce Investment Act of 1998) has a budget of $3,608,349,000, of which, expenditures for recepients is $3,060,923,000, meaning, to distribute cash and real property disbursements to the people and the states, the cost of handing out money comes to a very real amount of $547,426,000. Or, at an average worker cost of $100,000 a year, a total number of 5475 public servants to perform this task. It can be done much more efficiently than that. Unfortunately, those who believe we should perform all these tasks also believe we should just allow them to spend as they want and we should not question it.

If we just went to 4000 workers, or 80 per state, we would be able to provide the acts of distributing the billions and billions of dollars for the WIA with a cost savings of $147,500,000. In the long run, $147.5 million isn't a lot of money, but with just one page from a many thousand page budget generating that kind of savings, we could easily reduce in other areas and create tremendous savings. Next time, we'll dig a little deeper and see what we can find.

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I just started my own blog, and I'm going to continue doing investigative research into the budget and update regularly. I wanted to share with my friends at FreeRepublic, and get some feedback on the idea, the concept, areas you'd like to see covered, etc.

Please feel free to give any feedback, positive or negative. I needed to start somewhere.

Thanks for the time.

Paul

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Am I crazy?

Did I dream this?

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember a time when both sides of the aisle agreed on smaller government, but simply argued on where the money should ultimately go.

Must have been dreaming..............