The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
Quite often the federal government purchases things at prices higher than individuals in the private marketplace.
In 1940, then-Senator Harry Truman headed up a Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program. In the course of World War II, more than $15 billion in unnecessary and fraudulent defense spending was identified.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
Never have so few, lost so much, so stupidly, so fast.
For eight long years, the Obamas spent our tax dollars for a lavish jet-setting lifestyle.
The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.
A most powerful objection always arises to propositions of public works. It is that public undertakings are carelessly managed and much money spent to little purpose
I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.
I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.
The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
