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Marilyn says:

This is a typical reason “occupy” s/b nationally supported. We do need to fire “Uncle Sam”!

nancy mason says:

If the payment of 200,000 dollars to translocate a plant. I would like to know if the employees doing the actual work get paid a good salery. If so then I would like to become an employee for the national park service. It would be better than making a mere 25k a year for printing books

Tom says:

In examining this hyper-frivolous waste of public monies, the author summarizes, in part, that: “The problem with Washington is the government “machine” doesn’t have a bottom line.” Certainly that is unassailable truth. But the “why” needs to be explored further here. Washington, D.C. operates precisely like a criminal organization, getting its income by force, the threat of force, or retaliatory force and offering “services” that are “voluntarily” purchased in the marketplace. It therefore does not embrace any kind of private-enterprise-like mindset which recognizes that it’s customers might go elsewhere to a competitor, for competing products and/or services. Uncle Skunk kills competitors or puts them in prison for very long periods of time. The only way to force Uncle Skunk to spend (waste) less is to give him less to spend and permanently remove his credit card and eliminate the power of the Federal Reserve to order the printing of baseless fiat currency (another way taxpayers are robbed of the spending power of their money). Scream all you want. Believe in politicians who, when such facts are brought to light, declare that they will hold “hearings”, to “get to the bottom” of the problem and “make sure this will never happen again”. That’s pure D.C. 100% AA fuel-injected B.S. It will “always” happen again and again, unless and until their money and credit (and money printing) capability is permanently removed from their greedy hands.

sheila stokes says:

OH Please, someone take control with a right mind!

Steve says:

The above evaluations are correct and accurate, unfortunately. It’s Economics 101. If you look at how much is actually given to the government, from the moment a product is conceived until it’s paid for at the cash register, then include income taxes, 60% or more of what we put on the counter goes to government. Then, government creates an incomprehensible budget, makes its own rules to govern the spending, and polices its own operation. It’s inevitable, and it’s criminal. But for whatever comfort you can get from it, this is business as usual for countless governments and has been going on since the dawn of history.