Happy tax day!
I thought I'd share a few tidbits about where your tax dollars are going:
1. Federally funded and federally mandated abstinence programs that preach choice tidbits like:
- HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through sweat and tears
- Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission 31 percent of the time in hetrosexual sex
- Abortion leads to sterility and suicide
- A 43-day-old fetus is a thinking person
Cost: $900 million
2. Bush's nationwide tour to push phase-out of social security.
- Undisclosed number of new employees brought on to support push (You don't do that to push policy. You just don't.)
- Social Security trustees report modified to make solvency predictions much more dire than last year
- Only Bush supporters are allowed in to hear him speak about phasing out Social Security. Those that have liberal bumper stickers on their cars are removed from the events by private security. (You cannot use federal funds and then bar citizens - especially when you're not even claiming that they're disturbing the peace or anything)
Cost: White House will not reveal, but Washington Post speculates that it may be the most costly attempt to sell a domestic policy in history.
4. Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority "misplaced" funds
- Funds that were supposed to go towards Iraqi reconstruction simply "cannot be accounted for."
Cost: $8 Billion
5. Halliburton "misplaced" funds
- The Pentagon is investigating Halliburton's inability to account nearly $2 billion in funds given to them in a no-bid contract.
Cost: $1.8 billion
6. Halliburton "overcharged" for services
Cost: At least $127MM
- Overcharged for fuel
- Charged for food that it did not serve to soliders
3. EPA
- Lied about lower Manhattan air quality
- Lied about mercury emissions proposal.
- Lied about greenhouse gases
Cost: $8 billion
7. State Department
- Lied in report on terrorism - said it had decreased since the war on terror began. Later reversed finding when Rep. Henry Waxman found that terrorism had in fact increased.
- Lied to our Asian allies and said North Korea sold nuclear materials to Libya. When North Korea and Asian allies found out we lied, all talks completely broke down.
- Lied to United Nations about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Cost: $11 billion
8. Department of Homeland Defense
- Used assets to track down Texas Democrats hiding in Oklahoma instead of showing up in Congress to provide a quorum that would have - and ultimately did - lead to forced redistricting that effectively neutered the Democrats.
- Stupid color-coding system. Jeez.
Cost: $28 Billion
9. Iraq War
Cost: $151 Billion so far
I thought I'd share a few tidbits about where your tax dollars are going:
1. Federally funded and federally mandated abstinence programs that preach choice tidbits like:
- HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through sweat and tears
- Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission 31 percent of the time in hetrosexual sex
- Abortion leads to sterility and suicide
- A 43-day-old fetus is a thinking person
Cost: $900 million
2. Bush's nationwide tour to push phase-out of social security.
- Undisclosed number of new employees brought on to support push (You don't do that to push policy. You just don't.)
- Social Security trustees report modified to make solvency predictions much more dire than last year
- Only Bush supporters are allowed in to hear him speak about phasing out Social Security. Those that have liberal bumper stickers on their cars are removed from the events by private security. (You cannot use federal funds and then bar citizens - especially when you're not even claiming that they're disturbing the peace or anything)
Cost: White House will not reveal, but Washington Post speculates that it may be the most costly attempt to sell a domestic policy in history.
4. Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority "misplaced" funds
- Funds that were supposed to go towards Iraqi reconstruction simply "cannot be accounted for."
Cost: $8 Billion
5. Halliburton "misplaced" funds
- The Pentagon is investigating Halliburton's inability to account nearly $2 billion in funds given to them in a no-bid contract.
Cost: $1.8 billion
6. Halliburton "overcharged" for services
Cost: At least $127MM
- Overcharged for fuel
- Charged for food that it did not serve to soliders
3. EPA
- Lied about lower Manhattan air quality
- Lied about mercury emissions proposal.
- Lied about greenhouse gases
Cost: $8 billion
7. State Department
- Lied in report on terrorism - said it had decreased since the war on terror began. Later reversed finding when Rep. Henry Waxman found that terrorism had in fact increased.
- Lied to our Asian allies and said North Korea sold nuclear materials to Libya. When North Korea and Asian allies found out we lied, all talks completely broke down.
- Lied to United Nations about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
Cost: $11 billion
8. Department of Homeland Defense
- Used assets to track down Texas Democrats hiding in Oklahoma instead of showing up in Congress to provide a quorum that would have - and ultimately did - lead to forced redistricting that effectively neutered the Democrats.
- Stupid color-coding system. Jeez.
Cost: $28 Billion
9. Iraq War
Cost: $151 Billion so far
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