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Professor Peabody
06-01-2016, 06:01 PM
Wastebook 2015 - The Farce Awakens

Dec 2015

Free Rent for Freeloaders - HUD $448 Million

The federal government spends nearly $40 million a month paying the rent for over 100,000 tenants who are not complying with the requirements for the subsidies while others who could qualify are on waiting lists for housing assistance.

“If HUD does not strengthen its controls,” the OIG concluded, taxpayers “will pay at least $448 million over the next year in subsidies for public housing units occupied by noncompliant tenants that otherwise could house compliant households.”962

http://www.flake.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/03714fa3-e01d-46a1-9c19-299533056741/final-wastebook-2015-pdf.pdf

Sounds more like Venezuela everyday. $40 million a month paying rent for 100,000 people who don't qualify? When Government gets SO big that it simply can't keep up with the money they spend to make sure it's not wasted like this, it's time to shrink the size and scope of the offending agency.

Private Pickle
06-01-2016, 06:02 PM
I just don't get it... We see European country after country eat economic shit over this daily but we continue to head in that direction...

Professor Peabody
06-01-2016, 06:05 PM
I just don't get it... We see European country after country eat economic $#@! over this daily but we continue to head in that direction...

Because Government cubicle rats make out very well in that environment.

Private Pickle
06-01-2016, 06:09 PM
Because Government cubicle rats make out very well in that environment.

Unfortunately if you're not employed by the government you are fucked given the government has driven out all private commerce due to suffocating taxes in order to pay for the pensions and over inflated government workforce.

donttread
06-01-2016, 08:03 PM
Unfortunately if you're not employed by the government you are fucked given the government has driven out all private commerce due to suffocating taxes in order to pay for the pensions and over inflated government workforce.

Then there are the unmentioned jobs that government creates, regulates and generally sticks their noses into. Healthcare for example

Private Pickle
06-02-2016, 09:45 AM
Then there are the unmentioned jobs that government creates, regulates and generally sticks their noses into. Healthcare for example

Which would all be nationalized so if you work in the healthcare field you work for the government.

donttread
06-02-2016, 03:58 PM
Indirectly yes, just sometimes without the great benes

donttread
06-02-2016, 03:59 PM
I just don't get it... We see European country after country eat economic shit over this daily but we continue to head in that direction...

Virtually nothing about our policy is routed in empirical evidence, real world examples or common sense.