Government Waste:
They Wouldn't Do It With Their Own Money, July 04, 2005
Trent Seibert's article in today's Tennessean regarding plans for a $9.4 million privately-funded renovation of Tennessee's governor's mansion raises the question of whether such projects allow big corporations and wealthy donors "to buy access to or curry favor with the governor."Such donations are not capped as campaign contributions to candidates are, which means companies doing business with the state — or that want to — can write eye-popping checks to the Bredesen family's important cause.The...
How Many People Could TennCare Keep For $870 Million?, April 18, 2005
From the San Francisco Chronicle comes this:The federal government is struggling to find money to pay for such basics as prescription drugs for the elderly. At the same time, government reports estimate that $1 in every $10 spent by the $300 billion Medicare system goes to erroneous, abusive or fraudulent payments. In California, an incomplete accounting identified $553 million in improper payments last year, according to a December Medicare report.There's no good reason not to...
Your Government At Work, February 16, 2004
Nashville has gone nuts. I used to live . From 1988 through 2000 I happily called Nashville home. Now I live in the suburb of Franklin, in suburban Williamson County. So don't blame me for the brain-donors running Nashville's Metro Government. Here's an example of their idiocy, from a Feb. 13 broadcast by Larry Brinton, a political muckracker on the news at WSMV-TV:Is our Metro government consultant-poor? Does it need to pay a consultant for...
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