And Now For Something Completely Different
We here at the Oink Report sometimes wonder if our day-in, day-out exposure of government corruption and waste doesn’t sometimes get a little depressing for our readers. Especially around tax time as we all contemplate what much of this waste and corruption is costing us.
So it does give us pleasure this tax day to show you that there are actually some good guys in Government who are trying to make things better, even if at times it all feels a little futile.
A new report shows the government’s inspectors general are producing better results, even as critics complain staffing and budgets at many IG offices fall short.
The report from the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency, an interagency inspectors general group, reported that IGs in fiscal 2007 produced more than $16 billion in savings through audits and investigations that uncovered waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in government programs and operations. Those investigations led to almost 9,000 successful prosecutions. Both statistics were increases over the 2006 figures.
Of course, this isn’t all good news. We don’t mean to send you out on a downer, but consider that while these inspectors and auditors are exposing waste and saving us money they themselves - along with their audits and investigations - are costing us tax dollars.
Hopefully they didn’t cost us more than the $16 billion they saved.
[…] Our good friends over at the Oink Report sometimes wonder if their day-in, day-out exposure of government corruption and waste doesn’t sometimes get a little depressing for our readers. Especially around tax time as we all contemplate what much of this waste and corruption is costing us. So it does give us pleasure this tax day to show you that there are actually some good guys in Government who are trying to make things better, even if at times it all feels a little futile. Read all about it HERE […]
[…] Our good friends over at the Oink Report sometimes wonder if their day-in, day-out exposure of government corruption and waste doesn’t sometimes get a little depressing for our readers. Especially around tax time as we all contemplate what much of this waste and corruption is costing us. So it does give us pleasure this tax day to show you that there are actually some good guys in Government who are trying to make things better, even if at times it all feels a little futile. Read all about it HERE […]
Until Congress is limited to enumerated clauses of our Constitution, they will continue to take more and more and more until there is simply no way to fund government anymore. Governor Mark Sanford has it right. There is only one reason Conservatives exist in this country; because not everyone can be on welfare, some taxpayers need to remain to pay for the freebies, which exceed the cost of the war on terrorism. Why doesn’t anyone ever discuss the “freebie welfare programs” in America?