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Identifying and eliminating wasteful government programs could be the key to avoiding sequestration
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-- to the sequester cuts is to cut government -- two points to a government website report from 2011 shows the federal government wasted.
115.
Point three billion of your tax money on improper payments.
The bulk of that one -- fifteen point three billion waste programs like Medicare Medicaid and unemployment insurance.
That would more than compensate for the 85 billion -- -- John Barrasso joins us do you you don't wanna.
Cut to Medicare Medicaid -- and.
This just over payments made by mistakes in government -- -- a report coming up tomorrow Greta that goes through and if you know government accountability.
It's statements that show their 51.
Government programs that are ineffective.
Overlapping don't get the job done a 180 of them economic development programs under five different.
Cabinet positions.
We have -- 173.
Programs promoting the same thing we have literacy programs economic -- run by twenty different agencies.
And we have 55 different jobs programs and they don't know if anybody that goes to the programs actually Greta gets hired for anything.
-- we've -- an awful lot here on the record I'm wasting frog has admitted to is them in the federal government's groups.
-- with waste found in a couple things that caught my attention one and if you mention up but.
I had no idea of the selective service found in the draft ended about 1973.
-- still of course have to register spends 24 million dollars a year and a staff of a 130 I'm not sure we need to spend a 120 -- no we don't have a draft.
And the veterans affairs administration.
The VA has five.
Hundred public affairs officers why didn't need 500 public affairs officers welcome this report and assuming it's -- cool what the correct probably is the most stunning to me is that.
Last summer the 2012 -- detailed report to congress.
Out and dead and noted that under the sequestration -- that would happen is at the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose two million dollars of its twenty million dollar budget.
However.
Three Muster for the L and be even issued its report found that agency had been abolished.
It this is what the president's doing he's just trying to scare the American people and congress.
-- -- raising taxes and I'm not buying it we need to cut wasteful Washington spending and -- -- coming up with this report.
To show so many places I've been traveling all around Wyoming last week Greta.
People really believe that only about fifty cents of every dollar they send to Washington is used in a constructive way.
Taxpayers get the fact that there's a lot of waste in this government.
And they understand that even with a sequester spending is going up it's just not going up as fast as the president wants to go up.
What I don't get those if you mean the first -- -- and -- you first thing you do is assessed so much when you need and you look to see whether any waste fraud and that told the we've been doing these shows for launch and we know that about -- struck.
This just -- -- no appetite.
In the city.
To look for waste and fraud -- mean as a humble little wouldn't wish to front it wouldn't hurt anybody if we got rid of and stock gonna hurt anybody if we do this.
-- but there's just no appetite why why don't politicians.
I want to get rid of ways to -- what's the what's seen in the impediment to that.
We'll have this report coming up.
Tomorrow too much.
Waste in Washington and you can go line by line through all these things remember the president promised back in 2008 he would go line through line through the budget.
All the lines are here Greta -- -- that -- and I am never content there's a congressman Ramallah density want to do that he never heard about -- let's -- to -- up come down to the white doesn't do it with you I've made to say I'd make the same offer.
To the president after this report comes out tomorrow and I'd be happy to go with.
Over with the president line by line the -- let's face it that they sequester is gonna hit.
And the spending will get cut and there is no way the Republicans are going to trade a tax increase for spending -- we're not raising taxes on anyone.
My guess is that the American people thought that that the house to send the president -- went through got rid of the waste and fraud and -- at that point found out that we need more revenue would oppose it but that I I mentioned some of the resistance is it because it's just disgusting how much waste your father is here.
And assist no effort to get rid of -- in America and they're good people want to make sure our government runs well.
But the but the fraud waste is just discussed.
The other part is people say if you actually had a balanced budget amendment of the constitution and live within your means like American families have to do every year.
That then they wouldn't mind.
Trying to help deal with the debt and the deficit -- -- about a balanced budget amendment to the constitution I say.
Don't send Washington anymore money they'll just wasted what time what a two billion now we did a story of the night in which -- the Department of Labor said between I think it was it was June of 2011 and July 2012 that they found five billion.
Any improper payments for unemployment five billion.
Well we've found a 110 billion in in inappropriate payments -- This government is spending twice now what it did ten years ago there's plenty of -- to -- deal dealt with and -- think that we can't find two and a half percent.
Cut cut without the president having to go around the country trying to scare people in an effort to try to raise taxes.
Were strong and resilient nation we're gonna get through what this president is doing to us and he's gonna find that all these scare tactics and you know saying of the roof is the sky is falling.
It's not gonna fall unless he forces it -- says thank -- -- -- thanks --
