On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
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> "My experience and intuition tells me that people will go for the low
> hanging fruit and then declare victory while ignoring the harder stuff."
>
> Maybe so with normal people. Congressmen are not normal people. These are
> bureaucrats who
"My experience and intuition tells me that people will go for the low
hanging fruit and then declare victory while ignoring the harder stuff."
Maybe so with normal people. Congressmen are not normal people. These are
bureaucrats who keep taking more and more every year. Who have a sense of
sel
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
> " I said that a one-time $500,000 appropriation pales in comparison with an
> ongoing waste of billions or hundreds of billions a year. "
>
> My bad. I took your lack of energy statement as lack of care.
>
> I see things in a different light.
"I obviously think that independence should be just that."
We agree. I just don't think it can happen. Politicians will not appoint
truly independent people to a watchdog branch.
"I agree. Hence I'm a fan of organizations like Wikileaks that publishes
large troves of original documents."
Th
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
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> "Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within the
> government for these things. "
>
> That's like the fox guarding the hen house.
Part of the whole deal with "government" -- at least *kick ass*
governments -- is th
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
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> "Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within the
> government for these things. "
>
> That's like the fox guarding the hen house.
I do think that there is a role for independent agencies within the
government struc
Oops. It's "accept", not "except".
J
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I never thought this day would happen. . . . I wont have to work on putting
gas in my car. I wont have to work at paying my mortgage. You know. If I
help him, hes gonna help me. - Peggy Josep
~~~
"Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within the
government for these things. "
That's like the fox guarding the hen house.
"The help of media working to bring those reports to light would be quite
helpful though. A report that no one reads is kind of a waste."
The wa
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Judah McAuley wrote:
>> Isn't that what the media is for?
>
> Actually, I think that there are supposed to be audit agencies within
> the government for these things. The help of media working to bring
> those reports to light would be quite helpful though. A repo
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
> "It would be nice to see a non-partisan investigation of all the projects to
> see whether the projects were well conceived in the first place and how
> their results measure up to
> their initial applications. I'm sure that there are a number
"A list, I might add, that already had to be changed by the Senators because
it turns out that they were a wee bit less than honest with their cherry
picking:"
I warned that it was partisan. Tom and John are trying to bring even more
bad light on the Democrats before November.
"It's a shame, r
I concur. I wonder how much putting this list together cost the
taxpayer. Probably considerably more than some of the projects on it.
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox
wrote:
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> I believe the biggest waste of money is paying 100 buffoons to try and
> entertain us with their i
h.
>
> Judah
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
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>> Before you click, this is partisan in that tt was released by Tom Coburn
>> and the "Maverick" John McCain.
>>
>> It also CF based.
>>
>> Summertime Blues: 100
will actually bring them to light though.
Judah
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote:
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> Before you click, this is partisan in that tt was released by Tom Coburn
> and the "Maverick" John McCain.
>
> It also CF based.
>
> Summertime Blues: 100 sti
Before you click, this is partisan in that tt was released by Tom Coburn
and the "Maverick" John McCain.
It also CF based.
Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the
blues<http://coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=e1e062
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