Sadly, the wasting of taxpayer wealth and tax dollars seems to be a never ending saga, as the following instances of waste reinforce the reality that Washington politicians either do not care that your hard earned tax dollars are wasted or they are not smart enough to stop it:
1)We have done a number of posts on how the USAID Federal government organization has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars on absolutely stupid, unneeded, wasteful and money laundering projects over the past few years. I came across another list of wasted dollars on stupidity that are listed below along with some favorites we have previously discussed:
$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid using “binary gendered language.”
$20 million for a Sesame Street play in Iraq.
Over $4.5 million to “combat misinformation" in Kazakhstan.
$2 million for sex change operations and “LGBT” activism in Guatemala.
$2.1 million to help the BBC "value the diversity of Libyan society.”
$10 million worth of USAID funded meals went to the al Qaeda terror group.
$25 million for Deloitte to promote "green transportation" in the country of Georgia.
$2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam.
$5 million to the EcoHealth Alliance, one of the NGOs that funded the Chinese lab where the Covid virus research was developed.
$1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group.”
$1.2 million to the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency to build a “state of the art 440 seat auditorium" in DC.
$1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica.
$500k to solve sectarian violence in Israel
$2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America.
$2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon.
$3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans.
$5.5 million of LGBT activism in Uganda.
$6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world.”
$8.3 million of “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion.”
Keep in mind that while the Federal government and the Biden administration were spending these millions of dollars around the world:
770,000 Americans were homeless.
Millions of Americans were having trouble feeding their families.
Over 20 million Americans still do not have health insurance.
Thousands of Americans die every month from drug overdoses because they do not get the addiction help they need.
Thus, if you think that spending $20 million in Iraq for a Sesame Street play is more important than sheltering homeless Americans, then you and I have a radically different set of human priorities. If you think that spending millions of dollars around the world on LGBT mythical issues is more important than helping to feed America’s hungry, then you and I have a radically different set of human priorities. If you think that spending $25 million on green transportation halfway around the world in Georgia is more important than helping Americans get addiction help before they die, then you and I have a radically different set of human priorities.
Also, ask yourself, how much of this funding do you think actually gets to where it is supposed to be going and being used for the stated purpose? Government NGOs have to first skim off their expenses, costs, and profits. Then once in the country, crooked native politicians and others have to get their cut/kickback in order to cooperate with the NGOs. And finally the NGOs probably have to have a slush fund to kick back to the politicians that made the expenditure happen in the first place, a process called money laundering.
Do you really think it takes $20 million to put on a Sesame Street play in Iraq? The cost to produce a Broadway play costs about a fourth of $20 million. The difference goes for kickbacks and other corruption.
2)We have often discussed the reality that the programs that the Federal government put in place during Covid to help out struggling Americans and businesses was one of the most corrupt and criminally infested government programs ever produced. The fraud and stealing of taxpayer wealth allocated to the Covid programs was monumental. And recently another criminal fraud operation that stole millions of dollars was uncovered:
One of the most criminally infested Covid programs was the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
As a result, the Department of Justice recently reached a settlement with three Chinese owned real estate companies that will require them to return $7.3 million from the PPP that they stole.
In exchange for the repayment, criminal charges will not be pressed.
This fraud is part of the estimated overall $1.4 billion that was stolen from the PPP.
There have been over 100 other settlements regarding their fraud infested program.
Another example where a Federal government program has been implemented with barely any audit or crime prevention processes in place. As a result, criminals around the world feasted on American taxpayer wealth.
3)But it is not only criminals that waste and steal taxpayer dollars, the Federal government itself is often the source of taxpayer dollar waste as we see now relative to Obama Care processes and failures:
Audits have found that at least 160,000 Obama Care applications were altered without government authorization by health insurance brokers and agents, allowing eligible people to get Obama Care subsidies.
Over 1.5 million households earning over the 400% of the Federal Poverty Level, making them not qualified for the Obama Care policies, received taxpayer subsidies.
The audit checks in the Obama Care world were so bad that people earning over $600,000 a year were somehow able to get taxpayer subsidies for their health insurance coverage.
What a mess and what a failure. Remember ,Obama claimed that 1) if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, 2) if you like your insurance policy you can keep your policy, and 3) every American will get health insurance coverage under Obama Care. Everyone of those promises failed miserably once the legislation took effect. Millions of people lost access to their doctor, millions lost access to their preferred insurance policy, and over 20 million Americans still do not have health insurance coverage.
All of these Obama Care failures came at a cost of over $1.3 TRILLION, a tremendous waste of epic proportions.
4)One last episode of government fraud and the stealing of taxpayer dollars:
Ten years ago, the Judicial Watch organization reported that one state had sent $26 million of Medicaid benefits for dead people.
Unfortunately, nothing came of their fraud finding since Judicial Watch recently uncovered the reality that Medicaid currently still sends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to “deceased enrollees.”
18 audits of the Medicaid program identified about $289 million in payments to dead people.
These payments are dressed up and called “unallowable payments” which sounds better than fraud and incompetence.
But these are just a small portion of the Medicaid fraud that goes on since it was recently uncovered that the state of Illinois had sent over $9.5 million of Medicaid benefits to inmates in prison.
In total, the General Accountability Office found that Medicaid had made a whopping total of $31.1 BILLION in total improper payments in one year, 2024.
What a mess, a mess that has been recognized for at least ten years and which never got resolved. If anything, the improper payments of taxpayer wealth got worse over time.
So any wasted dollars and so many different ways to waste it: Medicaid, PPP, Obama Care, and USAID. No wonder the national debt is quickly approaching $40 TRILLION while millions of Americans suffer so many hardships.
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