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Senator Rand Paul @RandPaul
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I’m back to celebrate #Festivus with some more #AiringofGrievances, this time about how the government spends your money
My #Festivus edition of the Waste Report totals $563,421,523 the federal government wasted.
The average taxpayer pays around $8,136. That means the programs in this report wasted the taxes of 69,250 people
That’s roughly the size of my hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky
Here are just a handful of the examples...#AiringofGrievances
Your government spent $3,217,960 on putting on music festival and concerts abroad.
They spent $324,015 to pay for a clown school in Argentina. Rumors to the contrary, this was not a CODEL
It may not seem like a lot of money, but we spent just under $100k to make sure Kenyan farmers knew how to use Facebook.
We spent over $170k to build trails in national parks. Seems like not too bad until you read the next line that the parks were in Russia
Oh great, now the waste report is going to get a subpoena from the Special Prosecutor.
We spent $8.2 million to “instill confidence in the Libyan government”.
That begs several queastions really. Like why we blew up the last Libyan government...and, wait, there’s a Libyan government currently?
We spent $15 million to train cashiers in Walmart...in Mexico
And @realDonaldTrump thinks there is a chance in hell someone else is going to pay for that border wall.
Last but definitely worst: your government thought It wise to spend your tax dollars to build $255 million to repair roads...in Afghanistan
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