What the Republicans should be pointing out is how that wasted money could have been used for much better purpose.
Yes, I know that the general feeling here would be to ‘give it back to the taxpayers’, and I don’t disagree, but I think it is important to realize that we are in a public relations war with this administration. I think the public has to some extent been desensitized to big numbers. When the story line is ‘173M dollar blunder’, it’s just another big number. Maybe it would help to put it into some kind of perspective. Like:
‘175M would have repaved x miles of highway and employed x numbers of workers.’
‘175M would allow the hiring of x numbers of additional police officers, or firefighters.’
‘175M would allow a $500 tax refund for 350,000 people.’
‘175M would feed x number of children for x days in these countries’.
etc.
If we did this with a different example every time there is government waste, it maybe it would help people to realize just how disgusting this is. Just a thought.
I’m thinking the $175Million admitted in this article is just a small part of what this mess has cost the nation in total.