hollywood told you the truth NOTHING YOU SEE HERE IS REAL

[bigwave]

10 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Audits are great....as long as they're not being conducted by biased partisan hacks. 

I totally agree with that- but the Fed is got a strangle hold on We The Peoples currency and they are devaluating it (along with "our leaders") to no end.

 

jb wants another 3.7 trillion? way over the top.

[bigwave]

3 minutes - try to explain this one away:

 

[bigwave]

The 2nd law of Thermodynamics dis proves space:

 

 

[nstoolman1]

25 minutes ago, bigwave said:

3 minutes - try to explain this one away:

 

I  am not a radar expert. Your video might make sense if the presenter had not made it sound as if the radar was a fixed object not attached to the earth. If the radar was going the same speed and direction as the earths rotation it makes sense. 

[Shabibilicious]

10 hours ago, bigwave said:

I totally agree with that- but the Fed is got a strangle hold on We The Peoples currency and they are devaluating it (along with "our leaders") to no end.

 

jb wants another 3.7 trillion? way over the top.

 

This is not a shot at you, but it's interesting that the Right never bats an eye at our bloated national debt when they are in charge.  

 

GO RV, then BV 

[bigwave]

2 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

but it's interesting that the Right never bats an eye at our bloated national debt when they are in charge.  

Exactly they are all bought off.

 

They can't even run a lemonade stand and should ALL be removed.

Taxation is theft!

 

[bigwave]

10 hours ago, nstoolman1 said:

radar

For you I say the earth is spinning like a top at 1,000 miles per hour, spinning around the sun at 66600 mph, expanding in the spiral arm of the milkyway at 495,000 miles per hour and  the whole universes is expanding at 2 million miles per hour. Wow we are really moving out.

[nstoolman1]

22 minutes ago, bigwave said:

For you I say the earth is spinning like a top at 1,000 miles per hour, spinning around the sun at 66600 mph, expanding in the spiral arm of the milkyway at 495,000 miles per hour and  the whole universes is expanding at 2 million miles per hour. Wow we are really moving out.

you got me. I have no clue what you are saying. 

Radar. You put one word of my quote and say what you said. I merely gave a suggestion for another possibility to the video that said his conclusion was the only answer.

[bigwave]

1 hour ago, nstoolman1 said:

one word of my quote

I just put 1 word to get it to quote up for me. so I could make the comment.

[Shabibilicious]

2 hours ago, bigwave said:

 

Taxation is theft!

 

 

Roads, sewers, waterlines, etc. aren't going to pay for themselves.

 

GO RV, then BV 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

STUPID LIBERALS ARE SO PREDICTABLE. 

 

[bigwave]

3 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Roads, sewers, waterlines, etc. aren't going to pay for themselves.

That should be done by the states and it should be contracted out - not take 13.5% of my money and give to illegals, etc.

[Shabibilicious]

28 minutes ago, bigwave said:

That should be done by the states and it should be contracted out - not take 13.5% of my money and give to illegals, etc.

 

It is done by the states also, through tax dollars...and the bids must meet state standards and practices for approval, at least in my state.  Can't really say how poor states pay for their upgrades to infrastructure.

 

GO RV, then BV 

Edited July 15, 2021 by Shabibilicious

[bigwave]

30 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

It is done by the states also, through tax dollars...

Taxation without representation:

California Democrat-Led Legislature Approves First Ever State-Funded Guaranteed Income Plan

The Democrat-led California state legislature on Thursday approved the first ever state-funded guaranteed income plan.

The state lawmakers approved of $35 million for monthly cash payments for pregnant women and “young adults who recently left foster care.”

There are no restrictions on how the recipients of the taxpayer-funded cash spend it.

The Associated Press reported:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/california-democrat-led-legislature-approves-first-ever-state-funded-guaranteed-income-plan/

[miraj]

Big Wave..note..not a single Republican voted against. Makes one wonder.

[bigwave]

9 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

Roads, sewers, waterlines, etc. aren't going to pay for themselves.

If goberment would only stay with the above examples (add military and security to the list We The People could pay a flat tax and pay for it all.

 

But 

 

1. The federal government made at least $72 billion in improper payments in 2008.[1]
2. Washington spends $92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.[2]
3. Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.[3]
4. Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them -- costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually -- fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.[4]
5. The Congressional Budget Office published a "Budget Options" series identifying more than $100 billion in potential spending cuts.[5]
6. Examples from multiple Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of wasteful duplication include 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs.[6]
7. Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.[7]
8. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, including "over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold." The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.[8]
9. Federal agencies are delinquent on nearly 20 percent of employee travel charge cards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.[9]
10. The Securities and Exchange Commission spent $3.9 million rearranging desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.[10]
11. The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.[11]
12. Over half of all farm subsidies go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000.[12]
13. Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion annually.[13]
14. A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns.[14]
15. The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades.[15]
16. Washington will spend $126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute.[16]
17. Federal investigators have launched more than 20 criminal fraud investigations related to the TARP financial bailout.[17]
18. Despite trillion-dollar deficits, last year's 10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.[18]
19. The federal government owns more than 50,000 vacant homes.[19]
20. The Federal Communications Commission spent $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.[20]
21. Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.[21]
22. More than $13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another $7.8 billion cannot be accounted for.[22]
23. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, "Girls Gone Wild" videos, and at least one sex change operation.[23]
24. Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.[24]
25. Congress recently gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.[25]
26. The Transportation Department will subsidize up to $2,000 per flight for direct flights between Washington, D.C., and the small hometown of Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY) -- but only on Monday mornings and Friday evenings, when lawmakers, staff, and lobbyists usually fly. Rogers is a member of the Appropriations Committee, which writes the Transportation Department's budget.[26]
27. Washington has spent $3 billion re-sanding beaches -- even as this new sand washes back into the ocean.[27]
28. A Department of Agriculture report concedes that much of the $2.5 billion in "stimulus" funding for broadband Internet will be wasted.[28]
29. The Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets and never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.[29]
30. Washington spends $60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.[30]
31. Over one recent 18-month period, Air Force and Navy personnel used government-funded credit cards to charge at least $102,400 on admission to entertainment events, $48,250 on gambling, $69,300 on cruises, and $73,950 on exotic dance clubs and prostitutes.[31]
32. Members of Congress are set to pay themselves $90 million to increase their franked mailings for the 2010 election year.[32]
33. Congress has ignored efficiency recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services that would save $9 billion annually.[33]
34. Taxpayers are funding paintings of high-ranking government officials at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece.[34]
35. The state of Washington sent $1 food stamp checks to 250,000 households in order to raise state caseload figures and trigger $43 million in additional federal funds.[35]
36. Suburban families are receiving large farm subsidies for the grass in their backyards -- subsidies that many of these families never requested and do not want. [36]
37. Congress appropriated $20 million for "commemoration of success" celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan.[37]
38. Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit.[38]
39. Two drafting errors in the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act resulted in a $2 billion taxpayer cost.[39]
40. North Ridgeville, Ohio, received $800,000 in "stimulus" funds for a project that its mayor described as "a long way from the top priority."[40]
41. The National Institutes of Health spends $1.3 million per month to rent a lab that it cannot use.[41]
42. Congress recently spent $2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.[42]
43. Lawmakers diverted $13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers -- the agency partially responsible for the failed levees that flooded New Orleans.[43]
44. Medicare officials recently mailed $50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients.[44]
45. Audits showed $34 billion worth of Department of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste, fraud, and abuse.[45]
46. Washington recently spent $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.[46]
47. The Advanced Technology Program spends $150 million annually subsidizing private businesses; 40 percent of this funding goes to Fortune 500 companies.[47]
48. Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education.[48]
49. The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billion annually not to farm their land.[49]
50. The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 computers since 2001, many containing Americans' personal data.[50]

Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit

 

Year after year....

[bigwave]

5 hours ago, miraj said:

Big Wave..note..not a single Republican voted against. Makes one wonder.

Like I said the whole goberment is not for We The People - unless you like the change in the system.

 

 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

11 hours ago, bigwave said:

That should be done by the states and it should be contracted out - not take 13.5% of my money and give to illegals, etc.

Some people are more concerned about their Welfare checks and food stamps than they are about the condition of the roads. 

[Shabibilicious]

8 hours ago, bigwave said:

If goberment would only stay with the above examples (add military and security to the list We The People could pay a flat tax and pay for it all.

 

But 

 

1. The federal government made at least $72 billion in improper payments in 2008.[1]
2. Washington spends $92 billion on corporate welfare (excluding TARP) versus $71 billion on homeland security.[2]
3. Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties.[3]
4. Government auditors spent the past five years examining all federal programs and found that 22 percent of them -- costing taxpayers a total of $123 billion annually -- fail to show any positive impact on the populations they serve.[4]
5. The Congressional Budget Office published a "Budget Options" series identifying more than $100 billion in potential spending cuts.[5]
6. Examples from multiple Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports of wasteful duplication include 342 economic development programs; 130 programs serving the disabled; 130 programs serving at-risk youth; 90 early childhood development programs; 75 programs funding international education, cultural, and training exchange activities; and 72 safe water programs.[6]
7. Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.[7]
8. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, including "over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold." The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.[8]
9. Federal agencies are delinquent on nearly 20 percent of employee travel charge cards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually.[9]
10. The Securities and Exchange Commission spent $3.9 million rearranging desks and offices at its Washington, D.C., headquarters.[10]
11. The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida.[11]
12. Over half of all farm subsidies go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000.[12]
13. Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion annually.[13]
14. A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns.[14]
15. The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight upgrades.[15]
16. Washington will spend $126 million in 2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense budget to subsidize a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute.[16]
17. Federal investigators have launched more than 20 criminal fraud investigations related to the TARP financial bailout.[17]
18. Despite trillion-dollar deficits, last year's 10,160 earmarks included $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, California; $190,000 for the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming; and $75,000 for the Totally Teen Zone in Albany, Georgia.[18]
19. The federal government owns more than 50,000 vacant homes.[19]
20. The Federal Communications Commission spent $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.[20]
21. Members of Congress have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, DVD equipment, ionic air fresheners, camcorders, and signature machines -- plus $24,730 leasing a Lexus, $1,434 on a digital camera, and $84,000 on personalized calendars.[21]
22. More than $13 billion in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another $7.8 billion cannot be accounted for.[22]
23. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, "Girls Gone Wild" videos, and at least one sex change operation.[23]
24. Auditors discovered that 900,000 of the 2.5 million recipients of emergency Katrina assistance provided false names, addresses, or Social Security numbers or submitted multiple applications.[24]
25. Congress recently gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737.[25]
26. The Transportation Department will subsidize up to $2,000 per flight for direct flights between Washington, D.C., and the small hometown of Congressman Hal Rogers (R-KY) -- but only on Monday mornings and Friday evenings, when lawmakers, staff, and lobbyists usually fly. Rogers is a member of the Appropriations Committee, which writes the Transportation Department's budget.[26]
27. Washington has spent $3 billion re-sanding beaches -- even as this new sand washes back into the ocean.[27]
28. A Department of Agriculture report concedes that much of the $2.5 billion in "stimulus" funding for broadband Internet will be wasted.[28]
29. The Defense Department wasted $100 million on unused flight tickets and never bothered to collect refunds even though the tickets were refundable.[29]
30. Washington spends $60,000 per hour shooting Air Force One photo-ops in front of national landmarks.[30]
31. Over one recent 18-month period, Air Force and Navy personnel used government-funded credit cards to charge at least $102,400 on admission to entertainment events, $48,250 on gambling, $69,300 on cruises, and $73,950 on exotic dance clubs and prostitutes.[31]
32. Members of Congress are set to pay themselves $90 million to increase their franked mailings for the 2010 election year.[32]
33. Congress has ignored efficiency recommendations from the Department of Health and Human Services that would save $9 billion annually.[33]
34. Taxpayers are funding paintings of high-ranking government officials at a cost of up to $50,000 apiece.[34]
35. The state of Washington sent $1 food stamp checks to 250,000 households in order to raise state caseload figures and trigger $43 million in additional federal funds.[35]
36. Suburban families are receiving large farm subsidies for the grass in their backyards -- subsidies that many of these families never requested and do not want. [36]
37. Congress appropriated $20 million for "commemoration of success" celebrations related to Iraq and Afghanistan.[37]
38. Homeland Security employee purchases include 63-inch plasma TVs, iPods, and $230 for a beer brewing kit.[38]
39. Two drafting errors in the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act resulted in a $2 billion taxpayer cost.[39]
40. North Ridgeville, Ohio, received $800,000 in "stimulus" funds for a project that its mayor described as "a long way from the top priority."[40]
41. The National Institutes of Health spends $1.3 million per month to rent a lab that it cannot use.[41]
42. Congress recently spent $2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.[42]
43. Lawmakers diverted $13 million from Hurricane Katrina relief spending to build a museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers -- the agency partially responsible for the failed levees that flooded New Orleans.[43]
44. Medicare officials recently mailed $50 million in erroneous refunds to 230,000 Medicare recipients.[44]
45. Audits showed $34 billion worth of Department of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste, fraud, and abuse.[45]
46. Washington recently spent $1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia.[46]
47. The Advanced Technology Program spends $150 million annually subsidizing private businesses; 40 percent of this funding goes to Fortune 500 companies.[47]
48. Congressional investigators were able to receive $55,000 in federal student loan funding for a fictional college they created to test the Department of Education.[48]
49. The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers $2 billion annually not to farm their land.[49]
50. The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 computers since 2001, many containing Americans' personal data.[50]

Pick the Low-Hanging Fruit

 

Year after year....

 

I'm all for a flat tax....same percentage for everybody, no exceptions.  You probably shouldn't say taxation is theft if you're advocating for a flat tax though.

 

GO RV, then BV 

Edited July 16, 2021 by Shabibilicious

[bigwave]

7 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

taxation is theft

That is exactly what I'm saying.

 

How about spending our money like this?

$4,658,865 To Study The Connection Between Drinking Alcohol And Winding Up In The ER

 

$300,000 To Fund Debates And Model U.N. Competitions In Afghanistan

 

$153 Million Spent On The Failing Washington Metro

 

$33,921,175 Spent On Textbooks For Afghan Students

 

$22 Million Spent On Improving The Quality Of Egyptian Schooling

 

How about the "high speed railroad to now where in CA?

 

How about studying the sex habits of quail high on cocaine.

 

How about spending my money on abortions - Heck I didn't even get to watch and I have to pay for it?

 

There is dumb, stupid and outright thievery.

 

I'll get you a list as long as your driveway of outright thievery! 

 

 

[bigwave]

[MyLadiesDaddy]

39 minutes ago, bigwave said:

AMEN BROTHER, 

 

Took me 57 years to figure this out. 

[bigwave]

Okay how about this one?

 

Please help explain away this "gravity" on the ISS: 2:32 video:

 

 

[Shabibilicious]

21 hours ago, bigwave said:

Okay how about this one?

 

Please help explain away this "gravity" on the ISS: 2:32 video:

 

 

 

There's clearly zero gravity in that video.

 

GO RV, then BV

[bigwave]

18 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

There's clearly zero gravity in that video.

Well the dummies should have put a little helium in the beach ball.

 

We give nasa 12 million a day and they still duck it up. LOLOL.