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Using #taxpayers’ money to stay dependent on #FossilFuels & continue contributing to #ClimateChange

#Trump Admin to Pay $1 Billion to #Energy Giant to Cancel #WindFarms

In exchange, the French company #TotalEnergies would invest in #oil & natural #gas projects in Texas & elsewhere […]

People are waking up
#NoWarWithIran #USImperialism #LeaveIranAlone #MiddleEast #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Trump #Netanyahu #CutTiesWithIsrael #BoycottIsrael #BoardOfPeace #NoMoreWar #Peace #DomesticPriorities #WastefulSpending #LeaveTheMiddleEastAlone #Imperialism
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Can Ontario really afford more of Doug Ford? Ontario to spend $210M on non-speed camera road safety measures following ban, Nov. 13

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#canadasky #onpoli #ontario #wastefulspending

11/11 - #KristiNoem is a moron #foryou #breaking #news #wastefulspending #ICE #fyp #foryoupage www.youtube.com/shorts/sjPym...

Save all this money to do what??
- buy G-700 jets ?
- loan Argentina $40B ?
- throw b’day parades for tRump ?
- remodel the People’s house ?

Deplorable!!

#NoKings
#WastefulSpending

Trump Tells Generals the Military Will Be Used to Fight ‘Enemy Within’ — The Wall Street Journal President says some U.S. cities he considers dangerous should become training grounds for American troops

The is the ultimate example of “this meeting could have been an email.” Also, what did this cost? apple.news/AluawXwMoR-W... #taxdollars #wastefulspending

Neera Tanden: "We are bailing out farmers because of Trump's inane tariff policies.
So we pay twice - for the tariffs, and for the government bailout they create."
#politics #WastefulSpending #agriculture

ARTICLE 1 Est of Legislative Branch: Does it say anything’ about PAID VACAYS??? #WastefulSpending 🌴

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Expensive Toy Compensation for Little Men's Shortcomings
#rocket #politics #wastefulspending #oneminuteecstasy

Yep.

Class dismissed because this administration is so dumb even the students can figure out it’s an idiotic plan.

I wonder if my US Senators know how sun works - or nighttime.

Attention: Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt

#Missouri #WastefulSpending #GOP

Trump to join Washington patrol while feds deploy checkpoints around city President Donald Trump plans to join a Thursday evening patrol in the nation's capital as federal authorities deploy checkpoints around the city and sometimes ask people for their immigration status a...

#tRump to join #Washington patrol while #feds #deploy #checkpoints around #city

#tRump #WASTEFULSPENDING #Taxpayers

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is requiring so much security,
it’s taking officers off of criminal investigations" […]

DHS Secretary Noem says entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the entire southern border wall with Mexico is being painted black to deter illegal immigration, at President Trump's request.

First Mexico was going to pay for #thewall. Now #DHS is painting it black to deter climbers. All on the #taxpayer.

Here's your #GovernmentWaste #WastefulSpending. Starting with #BotixNoem.

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Christina Henderson: "These Governors (of West Virginia, Ohio, and South Carolina) pulling their National Guard troops away from their full-time jobs and their families, just to have them standing around being hot and bored in Washington DC for a photo-op is wild."
#Trump #incompetent #extremism […]

My thoughts exactly. #nzpol #WastefulSpending #Nicolanomics #TheCostOfLuxonCrisis #NZpolitics #Aotearoa #NZ

The vacations paid for the by the American people, that we will never be able to take as the American people but there's that. #jdvance #vacations #taxpayers #money #shameless #wastefulspending

Now, post it again in TrumpSpeak, it seems to work.

Cash bonuses to deport people heading to work or picking up their kids? What a TERRIBLE waste of YOUR tax dollars! This is BAD policy, folks, and we need to STOP it. Government should be SMART, not reckless! #WastefulSpending #voteblue #dumptrump

Dick punch on its way for this utter twat in a bald man cap. 🙄 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #WealthyAndSorted #LuxuryLuxon #NZpolitics #Aotearoa #NZ #WastefulSpending #DropKickGovernment

DOGE? #doge #dogealert #wastefulspending

N$41.4m vanishes into Otjinene hospital’s unused walls Hertta‑Maria Amutenja “Who is going to be held accountable for all this money that was spent and the hospital is not even complete?” This question was raised during a public hearing on the long-delayed Otjinene District Hospital, where it emerged that the ministry of health and social services spent over N$41.4 million on a project that has not served a single patient since construction began in 2006. According to a report by auditor general Junias Kandjeke for the financial year ended June 2021, the ministry incurred “irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure” amounting to N$41.4 million.  The total includes N$30.5 million paid to the contractor, N$8.2 million paid to the consultant, and N$2.61 million for other expenditures. “The project was terminated in 2010 and re-tendered again in 2016. However, the process was not successful due to the non-responsiveness of the bidders. The same consultant was recommended again in 2021, and currently the contract has been awarded to a new contractor,” the report states. The hearing participants expressed frustration at the government’s failure to act against those responsible. “What happened to the contractor? Why did the ministry continue to pay the consultant even though the building was only partially complete?” one person asked. The auditor general’s report states, “The ministry paid a total of N$8,262,361.95 to the consultant (WML Consulting Engineers), although the project was not completed.” The contract with the consultant was signed in November 2006.  The contractor was appointed in July 2007, and construction began in April 2008.  The project was expected to be completed by June 2009.  However, the ministry terminated the contractor’s services in December 2010 due to poor performance. At that point, only 66% of the hospital had been completed. Kandjeke raised concern that no proper action had been taken to recover the funds. “There is no evidence that the ministry referred the matter to the attorney general for advice on how to recover the funds lost.” The contract with the consultant expired in December 2010, but the ministry signed a new contract with the same firm in October 2021. This decision raised further concerns during the hearing. “There was no value for money on this project. The consultant was paid a total amount of N$8,262,361.95 for only 66% of the work done,” the report reads. The incomplete hospital building has remained unused for more than a decade. Hearing participants asked what steps the ministry had taken to protect the structure from further damage. The ministry said the hospital construction project had been reactivated and that a new contractor had taken over. The revised completion date is set for March 2025. “The Ministry has incurred irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure amounting to N$41,403,207.80 on the Otjinene District Hospital project, which was not completed, and no patient has ever been treated at this facility,” the report states.

#HealthCare #Corruption #PublicAccountability #Infrastructure #WastefulSpending

I hate space it bores me. #WastefulSpending

Retail crime advisory group costs $500k in three months The government is defending the amount of money spent on its retail crime advisory group, but Labour says it is a hard sum of money to stomach.

"It does seem an exorbitant amount for ideas that were given to our government for free, and ideas that have been advised as dangerous,"

What an absolute scam this shit is. 🤨
#nzpol #OneTermGovernment #WastefulSpending #CoalitionOfCorruption #Aotearoa #NZ

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*sigh* Our tax dollars at work.
#WastefulSpending

Closeup of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and his quote: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are ot fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending mondy alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

#DwightDEisenhower
#AmericansNeeds
#WastefulSpending
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex

Rep. Johnson voted yes on the “big, beautiful” budget bill, but the bill is bad for South Dakota’s quality of life — The South Dakota Standard I may be best-known for my battles with pipeline companies , both Summit Carbon’s proposed carbon dioxide pipeline and the Dakota Access oil pipeline. I had the distinction of being named first in ...

Rep. Dusty Johnson, who now wants to be our governor, has an opportunity to do right & vote NO on the bill now that the House has the Senate version to consider www.sdstandardnow.com/home/rep-joh... #carboncapture #CCS #wastefulspending

Mountain Tūī on Substack So Treasury and other Ministry officials confirm the Regulatory Standards Bill will cost tens of million a year just to administer, puts taxpayers and ratepayers on the hook for paying polluters etc, ...

Good question; Why did they hide this critically important & fiscally relevant information? 🤨 #nzpol #OneTermGovernment #WastefulSpending #CoalitionOfCorruption #ToitūTeTiriti #TangataTiriti
#Aotearoa #NZ

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🐎 They didn't ask for it, but they’re getting it anyway. Louisiana lawmakers approved $3.5 million to LSU to buy Copper Crowne, a horse racing facility the university didn’t request and doesn't want. Who benefits? Not you. Who pays? You. 💸 #lalege #lagov #wastefulspending #LSU

🐎 They didn't ask for it, but they’re getting it anyway.
Louisiana lawmakers approved $3.5 million to LSU to buy Copper Crowne, a horse racing facility the university didn’t request and doesn't want.

Who benefits? Not you.
Who pays? You. 💸

#lalege #lagov #wastefulspending #LSU

#WastefulSpending #DOGEIt