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The Interior Department spent billions for drought relief, but the money is listed as "miscellaneous obligations," obscuring any detail.
Shutdowns keep happening, since 2013, because Congress pays no price for causing or prolonging them, while federal workers pay.
More than 1500 people on the federal payroll actually draw higher salaries than the President of the United States.
PepsiCo received $1.3 million in federal subsidies in 2012, plus more from New York State, to produce greek yogurt - and failed anyway.
The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) is buying weapons and ammunition in abundance for its agents, with no good explanation.
Of 677 laptops the Federal Reserve bought, none have been used so far, and the Fed’s bureaucracy can’t place them into service yet.
Since 2006 the Forest Service has paid about half a million dollars to send a Smokey Bear hot-air balloon to appear at public events.
Social Security and Medicare will require $193.6 trillion, even after collection of all payroll taxes, or it will run dry in 2033.
In 2012 NASA tried to launch a video game for iPads, but it crashed and burned - burning through $1.5 million in the process.
Total federal obligations amount to more than $130 trillion, and the country must be more transparent about what this represents.
