On a daily basis on the program I highlight the asinine and absurd ways that the government manages to waste your tax dollars.  Earlier in the week, Barack Obama said that if we cut spending like Paul Ryan has suggested, millions of mothers and young children will no longer have access to healthy food, weather reports will no longer be accurate and our drinking water will get dirty.  These are just some of the many examples he gave as to why we must continue spending at Obama’s historic levels.  Question: What did the parents and the young children and the weather reports and our drinking water do before Obama?  After all, Paul Ryan’s budget suggestions are to bring government spending back down to the historical average of about 18-20% … the percentages that existed under Bush, Clinton, etc. 

 The truth is that Obama wants the government to spend more because a bigger government means more people are dependent on it, which gives politicians more power.  To suggest cutting Obama’s level of spending is absurd to a man who believes that America’s greatness comes from government, that wealth is not earned but that the government decides how much wealth it will give to you and that it always knows how to better spend your money.

 Moving right along … the point is that Obama’s spending habits can absolutely be cut.  We do not NEED to spend money at this historic rate.  So I have some places for him to start.

“Wasteful” General Services Administration Conference in Vegas: The Highlights

GSA Federal Worker Does Rap Video Bragging About Lavish Perks 

Energy Dept. offers prize to create mobile apps that already exist 

Former economic adviser admits clean energy firms receiving billions of stimulus dollars will not create many long term jobs

 And while this one is not a federal program, it, too, qualifies as asinine.

Massachusetts DOT spends $54 million and 2 years to replace tunnel lights

 It’s too darn easy to come up with this nonsense.  I guess we’re just not smart enough to understand how wise all of this spending is … sorta like that legal shorthand thing.