0 Can't get a Government Job? OMG, they ran out of money



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Can't get a Government Job? 

OMG, they ran out of money



Dear McCrabby,

I read your article and watched the video (Click HERE to read/watch) on finding a government job.  Thank you; it was helpful.

Two things you might want to add for your readers.

First, you'll probably need good credit to land that government job, so if you got blasted by the economy, a medical problem, or a business slowdown, you may not qualify.

And second, many government entities can't afford to hire because they have been so fiscally inadequate that they don't have any money left to hire real working people.  I am forwarding a newscast about my community, Bell, CA, which I think you'll find interesting.

Busted by Bureaucrats in Bell

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Dear Busted..

Wow, McCrabby was going to run for City Manager in Bell,, but wasn't sure he could do a good enough job to earn the double-the-president-of-the-United-States salary..

In all seriousness, at the end of 2010, and on in to 2011, millions of Americans are still struggling to find work. Even those lucky enough to have jobs have had to tighten their belts and trim household budgets.

Is it too much to expect Congress do the same?  Excessive borrowing and spending has driven the national debt to a staggering $13.8 trillion. Last year alone, the government spent well over $1 trillion more than it collected.   So, how're we doing?

Busted, you already have a benchmark in your own city, as to what government spending can do.  As you look at these other examples, think about this...  at a time when we are borrowing more than $40,000 for every man, woman, child and politician in the country, are we making good choices? 

Consider that in 2010 the government spent nearly $2 million to showcase neon

signs no longer in use at Las Vegas Casinos.

Here are some "questionable" spending programs, from Senator Tom Coburn's (R-OK) book of 100 of these (WASTEBOOK/2010), and we recommend you take a look.  We've pulled just a few here (10) to give you the flavor.  Believe it or not, there are 90 more in Coburn's report.  Are we making good choices??

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  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to

  maintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal

  monkey house in Dayton, Ohio


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  Denali National Park, in Alaska, recently built new restrooms at the Teklanika

  campground to replace chemical toilets with a sweet smelling toilet (at a cost of nearly $1.5 million to taxpayers -- more than $41,000 to replace each of the 36 toilets); and, when complete, it was found not to comply with American for Disabilities Act


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  The Dept. of Defense, spends at least $1.4 billion on printing, copying, and faxing each year; a federal study indicates that the DOD spends about $490 million annually in unnecessary printing (how many pages did that study take to print?)


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  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent nearly $442,340 million to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social setting; since, 2008, the project has received about $500,000 annually


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  Let's stick with the NIH here, as it's good to be healthy -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) secured a grant for $800,000 in stimulus funds to study the effects of a genital-washing program for men in Orange Farm, South Africa


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  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided $216,884 in funding to the University of California Berkeley and Stanford University to study "Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Choice"  (Note:  if they can figure that one out, it might be worth the money)


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  The U.S. Census Bureau spent $2.5 million for nothing when its "Snapshot of America" commercial tanked in the third quarter of the Super Bowl; media critics agreed that the multi-million dollar advertisement ranked as one of the worst ever, during a Super Bowl


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  Congress spends $28 million to print paper versions of the Congressional Record, even though access to this information has been available online for fifteen years;

  4,551 copies of the congressional record are printed daily, many of which go

  directly to the trash, according to the Government Printing Office (GPO),


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  According to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) report released in June, the Department could save more than $2.2 million in electric utility operating costs annually, equating to the amount of electricity used to power 3,200 homes per year, simply by turning off the lights and using more efficient technology


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  The Internal Revenue Service paid out $112 million in undeserved tax refunds to

  prisoners who filed fraudulent returns, according to the Treasury Department‘s Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)

It's hard to believe that just a million of all that would last McCrabby a lifetime.  Can we borrow a buck??

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