Each month, taxpayers provide $40,000 worth of office space, cell phones, staff, and an SUV for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who currently works as a lobbyist for private corporations and foreign governments.
NASA spent $500 million constructing a 355-foot steel tower to launch a rocket that is now unlikely to ever be built.
Because of overstaffing, the U.S. Postal Service selects 1,125 employees per day to sit in empty rooms. They are not allowed to work, read, play cards, watch television, or do anything. This costs $50 million annually.
The Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets and never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.
Congress recently spent $2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use
The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billion annually not to farm their land.
The Advanced Technology Program spends $150 million annually subsidizing private businesses; 40 percent of this funding goes to Fortune 500 companies.
heritage.org, June,2010
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