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For more than a century after the Spanish-American War ended, telephone users paid a tax to finance it in lieu of tariffs.
The USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) more than quadrupled its spending in the last quarter century, while staff numbers fell.
A small federal agency, that existed only to provide channels for nepotism and other luxuries, now has laid off 92.5 percent of its staff.
Federal and State authorities paid $4.3 billion to cover many Medicaid patients twice, and deliberately ignored warnings about double dipping.
The city of Lynn, Massachusetts cleverly used federal grants on various beautification projects, and no one counted the cost.
The United States spent its share of over a billion dollars to help foreign shrimp farmers at the expense of American shrimpers.
During Donald Trump's first administration, three federal employees outearned the President. Today that number stands at 956.
New York City, host of next year's World Cup, is spending $20 million on tourist advertising, money it can't afford to spend.
The city of Bell, California lost $5.5 million dollars to corruption in 2010 and for about three years thereafter.
Boeing Company, once the elite aerospace engineering firm in the USA, now actually lacks trained and experienced aerospace workers. This lack has caused many quality-assurance failures...
