One of my first blog posts back in 2009 featured a column about the Social Security Administration squandering $750,000 on a “conference” at a fancy golf resort in Arizona.
This is why I’m not surprised the GSA pissed away a lot of money at a Las Vegas resort. This is what people do when they spend other people’s money. Heck, this cartoon shows it better than I can say it.
Here’s a small sampling of similar outrages.
- A $423,000 study to find out that men don’t like to wear condoms.
- Disability payments to a grown man who wants to wear diapers and live as an “adult baby.”
- The Pentagon spent $900 on a $7 control switch.
- Harry Reid’s subsidies for cowboy poetry.
- The Census Bureau’s $2.5 million ad at the Super Bowl.
- A $100,000 library grant to a city without a library.
- The IRS squandering $15 million on a P.R. campaign to improve its image.
The bureaucrats involved in all these outrages should be fired, or perhaps even charged with crimes such as malfeasance, but this cartoon reminds us that the real problem is the political class which appropriates the money that is then wasted by bureaucracies.
This cartoon was authored by Michael Ramirez, and you may know he is one of my favorites. To understand why, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
And this cartoon reminds us that every dollar of waste that gets publicized is just the tip of the iceberg.
I’m not familiar with Steve Breen, but he does lots of work like this, I’m sure I’ll be featuring more of his cartoons.
Thinking about all this waste, fraud, and abuse is a bit depressing, so let’s try to feel better by thinking about the ways that foreign governments squander taxpayer money, such as the UK government funding sex trips to Amsterdam, the Greek government rewarding pedophiles with disability handouts, or the European Commission financing penile implants for senior politicians and bureaucrats.
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This is all funny, but especially sad at the same time. I have to live through it everyday as a part of the state government. Spend it or loose it is the mantra that I have to hear, breaks my heart to have to go along with it.
Individual politicians have as much concern about the general welfare and the economy as individual termites have about the house they are eating.
There seems to be more than enough for everyone, and the intricacies of engineering are beyond them. At worst, there is always another house.
The Great Termite is supposed to worry about the general plan, whatever that is, if there is one. They pretend to themselves that the Great Termite is someone special, although he was one of them before high election. It gives them a calmer attitude as they munch.
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