Posts Tagged ‘government-waste’

Unspent Mandates

August 13th, 2007 | No Comments

David Bernstein over at Volokh talks of an anecdote regarding earmarks.  Basically a guy working for a defense contractor is hired to do nothing but spend money regardless of whether the product works or not.  I have heard several stories like this over the years.  Quite frankly, have done it to some degree with other [...]

Citizens Against Public Waste want to kill the Rural Broadband Loan Program

May 4th, 2007 | No Comments

Here’s their message: Letter to House Committee on Agriculture Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture Dear Member, Tomorrow you will have a hearing on the nation€™s current rural broadband programs. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is responsible for the Rural Broadband Loan Program, which subsidizes broadband service in rural areas. RUS has [...]