Americans concerned that Congress may have forgotten the value of their tax dollars — or in the case of health care reform, nearly a trillion dollars — might want their lawmakers to rent the movie “Dave” this holiday weekend, and take a lesson in Cut the Fat 101.
Big-ticket items like the proposed government-run insurance plan and other aid programs have attracted the most heat in the debate so far. But there are a host of smaller programs that are sopping up federal dollars without a whole lot of public scrutiny.
via Numerous Grant Programs Fatten Cost of Health Care Reform – FOXNews.com.
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Yeah, “Dave”. I remember President Dave was trying to cut back on spending so he could federalize a homeless shelter or something stupid. The choices he spoke of publicly weren’t necessarily tough or controversial ones, things that affected big business and were as pointless as they get. But the best part of the movie was his economist friend, Charles Grodin, who went through the federal budget and said, “I would be out of business if I ran a company like this!” [paraphrasing]
One of my biggest little beefs and something I hope to write about soon is the extra money going to the National Endowment for the Arts (well, ANY money going to the NEA is a pathetic joke). Putting aside conflicts of interest when the government funds certain kinds of expression, what is the NEA? It’s our tax dollars going to fund failed artists who can’t make money through the general public market, often funding reprehensible and partisan garbage.
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