A Guide To Waste

To the Editor:

With your permission I would like to introduce your readers to a document that has been released from Senator Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) office (12/2010) entitled Wastebook: A Guide to Some of the Most Wasteful Government Spending of 2010. This document can be found on the Internet at www.conburn.senate.gov.

Just what do we mean by wasteful spending:

1. Upkeep for Unused Monkey House and Other Buildings (Dept of VA) $175 Million (page # 3),

2. Sprucing Up Apartments Before They Are Torn Down (Shreveport, La) $1.5 million (page #4),

3. Museum Where Neon Signs Go to Die (Las Vegas, Nev.) $1.8 million (page #5),

4. “Free” Grateful Dead Archive (Santa Cruz, Calif.) $615,000 (page #4)

5. Agencies Pile Up Unnecessary Printing Costs — $930 Million (page #7),

6. Studying World of Warcraft and Other Virtual Games (Irvine, Calif.) $2.9 million (page #7).

It goes on and on. I suggest each and everyone of us take a few minutes and just review what we have paid for — repeat what we have paid for.

Citizens become aware of what Chris Murphy and his cronies are doing with our hard earned money. Happy New Year.

John Karlson

167 Great Quarter Road, Sandy Hook                 December 30, 2010