Stonewalling (as usual) on government spending
Where did $1.3 trillion in federal spending on contracts and grants go?
The most transparent administration ever won’t say, and as this House Energy and Commerce hearing revealed yesterday, the White House has stonewalled on a FOIA request to find out for more than six months:
Cue sound of flushing toilet here…
H/T The Right Scoop
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That missing money is squirreled away in a slush fund to re-elect The Usurper.
Obowmao: Hey, I got a campaign to run here! They ain’t cheap you know!
Prosecutions? Jail time? Now? Please?
There’s an easy fix for this, though it takes a little testicular fortitude. Any department that does not comply with a FOIA request like this will be defunded. The GOP could achieve transparency and spending reduction at the same time.
Ah and the Sock Puppet and his minions keep up the hop and scotch. Texas has been denied federal disaster funds because of the fires.Ths Sock Puppet makes me ill.
bho and team have not given any information that has been asked for from any investigation, have they?
I agree#4, funds should be held, but the r’s are gutless wonders and it won’t happen. Somehow, bho and team have GOT to start being held in contempt!
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$1.3 trillion unaccounted for? Sounds like another coded, thinly-veiled racist attack to me.
That $1.3 trillion was spent protecting Obeyme’s birth certificate.
So, always look for the union label,
it says we’re able
to take it from the U.S.A.!
Arab Street (holding out hands):
Obowmao: Here’s 1.3 trillion in reparations for OBL! Please don’t hurt me!
Missing money? Well, no problem….they will just print more.
GREAT idea!
$1.3 trillion…yes, sir, you can put it all on red, but I’m going to have to ask the pit boss if we can cover that…
Obama the coward had nothing to do with killing Osama Bin Laden, it was Leon Panetta who pulled the trigger.
Yes it is! And the GOP will be right on top of it, ’cause we all know just how much its endowed with testicular fortitude!
Now, that was entirely unexpected.
WHY can’t I log into some fed website that shows where every penny is spent?
Also, who had checkbooks for this money? I want names.
Rush has said, and I`ve agreed, from the moment the dems couldn`t explain why they needed $787B in the porkulus bill, it was for dem re-election slush funds. At this point, maybe half has been spent, and Barry is promising to spend $1B on his reelection campaign !?
At this point, I can`t decide who`s more corrupt and inept – the leadership of the US or the Useless Nations !?
Here is ClearSpending’s “Scorecard”.
Puzzling isn’t it? ( Why is MM getting all bent out of shape over a measly $1.3 T $’s ? )
http://sunlightfoundation.com/clearspending/scorecard/
Actually, the leaders of the U.S., because we really expect better from them.
Tinpot leftists in the U.N. Meh, typical corrupt business as usual.
D-FUN’d
missing, did anybody look in obama’s matress?
Y’all are a bunch of redneck, racist, whiners! The $1.3 trillion was well spent. Since our man was elected I don’t have to worry about my mortgage, putting gas in my car, or how to pay for food or nothing. When I need him, he helps me! This is the most beautiful time of my life. FO you mutha’s.
Sincerely
Peggy Joseph
You know, I tried to find somewhere in the Constitution where it says the federal government can fund all those agencies…had a hard time finding any of them listed.
It’s not stonewalling. It’s indignation at being expected to provide proof. Who are all of these “crazies”, “chumps” and “retards” who keep insisting on physical proof? Can’t we just trust each other? /sarc
Laws are for little people.
Stand back Phil – we’re draining the swamps
One more outburst like that and you’ll be assigned to comic book detail to see if any other characters are wavering on citizenship!
Of all our problems spending what we do not have is killing us, our future and our childrens future. As these people do want to “Fundamentally Change America” I would say it is business as usual for them.
That and they are awfully generous with our money.
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The Right to Keep and Bear Arms–>Constitutional Carry
It is a RIGHT
Not a license from “our betters”
It’s in the vault with the long form BC.
Well, I AM due for a haircut.
Maybe they paid off Superman.
Actually, neither existed in the first place. Its all smoke, mirrors, and accounting tricks. Pure fiction.
Does anybody WANT to look in Obama’s mattress?
No photo. The foot-dragger-in-chief has decided. Nothing to see here. Move along.
canbonly1 said:
Uh… interesting! Especially when you scroll down towards the bottom of the list?
United States Agency for International Development (12) – – – $485,176,228 $4,183,316,044
United States Institute of Peace (3) – – $3,500,000 – –
Various Scholarship and Fellowship Foundations (16)
Please to notice they have NO entries for FY 2010 ( and I think that’s among the points Michelle is raising? )
I worked on a contract in Homeland Security after 9-11. I saw them literally throw away a billion dollars on the e-Customs project. I left knowing that a large software system could never be built successfully by any government agency. Even the IRS has been struggling 20 years on the same program.
The beltway politics makes it impossible to do anything of substance, with or without Obama.
Excellent idea, but it won’t happen until the Conservative Party takes the WH in 2012. Then, watch our steam!! We will generate thousands of jobs just building new prisons for all these goons.
Gates threatens to retire early and Petraeus was going to do it regardless? Tell me there’s not a huge story here. Repeated by Richard Butrick at American thinker… Obama Waffles on Osama Seems like Obama’s muse is Valerie Jarrett. Wow.
See above for the reason.
Well, you know, according to the late great Everett Dirkson a billion dollars isn’t real money in the world of politics and government.
El Presidente really is the punk we all believed him to be. I’m actually sad… for America.
Yeah really. “A billion here a billion there and pretty soon your’re talking real money.”
Don’t worry, Phil. It will be leaked. Count on it. However, there will also be a lot of fake, photo-shopped pictures claiming to be the real thing. So we will never be quite sure, will we? This is all so stupid. I want to see that man’s pulverized head!! Our Country deserves to see it!! We saw Uday and Qusay. They were pretty gross. WTF?? Bad decision.
From US Institute of Peace:
WTH?
Or sucking up. Whatever…
Petraeus and Panetta: “We need to get it done Mr President.”
Obama: “Can’t I just finish my waffle?”
It already has. As I posted either above or on another thread (with links), it is being distributed to anyone in government who wants to see them. Once again, they are playing games instead of being forthright. I couldn’t care less that Scott Brown and Kelly Ayotte “believe” that the person in the photos is OBL anymore than I care that they “believe” that OBL is constitutionally qualified to be president. This is just not the way to handle it. Truth is only available to the ruling class?
I don’t have strong feelings about whether they should be released but I have strong objections to the way this (and everything else for that matter) gets handled these days. These guys would have fumbled the announcement of the Japanese surrender in WWII.
This is exactly the kind of obtuse thinking that really makes me crazy.
A top Republican who has seen the death photo of Osama bin Laden says releasing the picture publicly could endanger U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere.
First of all, this is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee! Hello! OUR TROOPS ARE IN DANGER ALREADY!!! There is a WAR going on!!!
Second, conspiracty theorists? What a red herring! There are key terrorist leaders who know Obama very well and would recognize him in these pix and who would then know for sure that he is dead. Everyone else can take a hike.
It really frustrates me that we have troops fighting wars to supposedly protect our freedoms and national interests but we are afraid of antagonizing the enemy because it would jeopardize the safety of the troops. Are they American soldiers or UN “peace keepers”? Either fight or come home.
According to Sun Tzu, antagonizing the enemy is a fundamental tactic in fighting a war. Unless we are outmanned, outgunned and in a bad strategic situation, in which case we should be retreating.
Somewhere along the line, no-lose T-ball has become the military standard for fighting wars. Proportional response leading to stalemate and long, drawn-out and expensive engagements.
It’s not just Obama that has to go, it’s EVERYBODY!
Sorry, that quote should have included another paragraph.
Ah, the last great American Statesman, and my Senator growing up. I think it was more like: “A few million here, a few million there, eventually you are talking about real money.”
Course later I figured out Dirksen supported LBJ on the Viet Nam war. It was the beginning of our borrowing.
Of course that was said in the 60′s. Inflation’s taken its toll on government and political thinking.
My point exactly. Pardon me for not making it clear enough. I should have placed a “snort” after the sentence.
The thieves…filthy little thieves.
They stole it from us. Nasty Obamaseses.
Yep, now it is a few trillion here and a few trillion there with some gold to actually make it real.
Btw: Without Dirksen, there would not have been a civil rights law in 1964.
So that’s his “stash” I’ve heard so much about.
Great argument against raising the debt ceiling.
Slaps forhead, “D’oh!
Not only does the government steal, they’re stupid. Working on the design for a car wash, one of the plan check requirements was that we install bike racks…. for all the people that ride thier bikes to the car wash. Heh.
BTW, it’s a self-serve car wash, so there are no employees that might ride their bikes to work. Handicap parking stalls also required.
No problemo.
and posted instructions in braile?
I would suggest contacting the Dept. of Justice about the missing 1.3T, but it appears they are busy today… sending a letter to the NCAA asking why there is no college football playoff system!!!
California Building Code Section 1117B.5.6:
Braille. Contracted (Grade 2) Braille shall be used whenever Braille is required in other portions of these standards. Dots shall be 1/10 inch (2.54) mm) on center in each cell with 2/10 inch (5.08 mmm )space between cells, measured from the second column of dots in the first cell to the first column of dots in the second cell. Dots shall be raised a minimun of 1/40 inch (0.635 mm) above the background. Braiile dots shall be domed or rounded.
Everybody got that? If your Braille dots are raised less than 0.635 mm above the background, you can and likely will be sued.
And then ther are the government agencies I have to deal with.
Some people wonder why I am slightly crazy.
(BTW. A good test to see if your child is potential lawyer material:
Have the child read that code section above. If thier eyes glaze over, think about another career. If thier eyes open wide and their nostrils flair, they are good lawyer material.)
Ted the Bellhop: There’s a putrid, rotting corpse of a dead whore stuck in the springs of the bed.
To cronies. Where the vast majority of Federal spending goes.
New prisons? What do we need new prisons for? Aren’t there isolated Pacific islands where we could drop them off without any way for them to come back? Make sure no one knows where they are and we are good to go. Solved that problem with minimal expense.
On May 4th, 2011 at 1:48 pm, AlohaGuy said:
V. Jarrett: Mr. President, have you forgotten you are scheduled to play eighteen holes this afternoon?