Sunday, August 19, 2012

BloggeRhythms 8/19/2012

The national debt’s at $16 trillion dollars, so I guess that half a billion realty doesn’t mean very much to bureaucrats who fritter away huge sums of taxpayer’s money practically every day that goes by.

But even though it’s well known that the current administration simply has no clue as how the nation’s economy works, I was surprised to hear yesterday that they’re making a concerted effort to give away unspent highway funds to states that promise to use the money to "create jobs and improve transportation."

According to an Associated Press article on Fox News on-line, “Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Friday that more than $470 million will be made immediately available for projects such as repairing crumbling roads and bridges.”
 
Now, it seems quite obvious to me that politicos and bureaucrats have some kind of sixth sense when it comes to glomming taxpayer’s bucks. These weasels could smell a dime from ten miles away in a blinding blizzard and would shoot any kind of relative (I doubt they have friends) without compunction if it meant a nickel more for them. So, therefore, if they haven’t already grabbed these funds from the taxpayers till, that means even they can’t find a way to waste, steal or ferret them away.
 
However, despite the fact that none of the states seem to show any interest in the idle funds, the administration will keep trying to cajole and beg their use rather than to simply give it back to the folks who earned it. And I, for one, think there’s something terribly wrong with that.
 
What’s more is the fact that this is only one of the situations concerning wholesale abuse of funds that we’ve heard of which leads me to ask: How many other departments, agencies or governmental related entities have similar situations where taxpayers funds are so thoughtlessly misapplied? Because if we could get a real answer to that, and stop the blatant, non-caring, total mismanagement of our money, we might actually wind up with a national surplus instead of trying to pay off the administration’s colossal debt.  
  
That’s it for today folks
 
Adios

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