Posted on 05/30/2007 8:48:38 AM PDT by NoobRep
David Obey and Robert Byrd are the real waste here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-c0DeSlhZA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fredstate%2Ecom%2F
Well, it’s not a good idea for Byrd, that’s for sure.
Sounds like an ill-advised plan for Congressmen who wish to remain in office.
So much for all of Pelosi’s “Most Ethical Congress In History” bullsh-t, eh??
What happened to the media in this country?
The king of pork has spoken ... why, it is so profound a statement that they should name a building or something [everything? :) ] after him!
You DUMB@ss, peon taxpayers just shut the hell up and get your wallet out!!!"
Not until he secures enough pork to ensure a huge statue of himself on top of West Virginia's tallest mountain.
How did Ted Turner ever allow this reporting?
I can’t believe CNN sounds ‘fair and balanced’!!!
Great report!! Open up ALL the earmarks to the public,
Congress! It’s OUR money you’re spending like there’s no tomorrow!! >:-(
A little SUNSHINE sanitizes many things.
I flew into West Virginia a few years ago. Every darned thing in that town had Byrd’s name attached to it. I swear, you could go into the bathroom at the airport and there would be the Robert Byrd Crapper with a plaque to denote that Byrd provided the pork to purchase the crapper. He has wasted alot of taxpayer dollars during his congressional career.
Interesting argument - that the consequences of making earmarks public would cause an increase in earmark requests because more constituents would be demand that their congressman ask for an earmark.
Hmm something seems wrong there.
Another reason I’m voting for Fred. He has a history of cleaning up these kinds of messes and a plan to deal with it.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Sean Rushton or Melissa Naudin
(202) 467-5300
June 5, 2001
CAGW PRAISES THOMPSON REPORT ON FEDERAL MISMANAGEMENT
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today commended U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), the outgoing chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, for a report released today documenting the federal government’s staggering levels of waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Thompson presented the report, which includes his recommendations for addressing those problems, to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mitch Daniels at a press conference in Washington.
“Once again, Chairman Thompson deserves great credit for exposing the pervasive problems in the federal government,” CAGW President Tom Schatz said. “As CAGW has documented repeatedly, many federal agencies and programs are duplicative, unaccountable, nontransparent, get poor results, lose money, are mismanaged, and outdated. These problems have persisted for decades, and as this report indicates, are growing worse and require rapid action.”
Thompson’s report includes analysis of the four biggest challenges facing the federal government: workforce management, financial management, information technology management, and overlap and duplication. In addition, the report includes an agency-by-agency appendix citing examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. The report also contains a list of the “Top Ten” worst examples of mismanagement in the government.
“As CAGW has documented for 17 years, every year the federal government literally flushes hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars down the drain,” Schatz added. “It is a disgrace and would be intolerable in any sphere outside government. Hopefully, the new Democrat majority in the Senate will follow Thompson’s lead to root out waste and work with President Bush for reform.”
“OMB Director Daniels deserves thanks from taxpayers for remaining focused on a common-sense waste-cutting agenda, and this report will help him target some of the worst bloat for elimination,” Schatz concluded. “CAGW continues to recommend the White House empanel a nonpartisan waste commission for a stem to stern audit of the government. This is the surest way to achieve fundamental and lasting reform.”
CAGW is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
Well .. so much for the “open govt” Pelosi threw in our faces.
If it’s not nailed down, they’ll name it after Robert KKK Byrd.
How many landmarks, bridge, tunnels and outhouses have this old bastages name on them?
About the only thing in WV not yet named after Byrd is the State of West Virginia itself.
The State of Byrdland doesn’t have a ring to it. What about Klansland? West Byrd-Ginia?
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