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To: ThirdEye who wrote (242344)	3/26/2002 4:14:13 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

FRAUD, WASTE & ABUSE - IT'S A NATIONAL PRIORITY! ThirdEye, The hypocrites of the Right rail incessantly like little chattering ninnies about all the FWAB, fraud, waste and abuse of social programs of our government. Always conveniently, and hypocritically, looking the other way when it comes to war toys. Senator Robert Byrd asked Drunk-0n-Power War Rackets Warlock Rummy how in the world he could ask for another $50 Billion of your's and my money, when the War Rackets Department can't even account for the $2.3 Trillion they've "lost, misplaced and can't account for" over the last 50 years. Here's one diiiissgusting place the Department of Dreadful is wasting our money: insightmag.com Grrr, kind makes me want to join up with some decent folks and take back our country from the corporate greedheads and slavers: rollingthundertour.org

To: ThirdEye who wrote (242344)	3/26/2002 4:37:54 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Brilliant Piece. It brings home the true cost of Corporate Welfare to the taxpayers: Average taxpayers pick up an expensive tab for corporate welfare expenditures. Government spending for corporate welfare programs far exceeds government spending for social programs. 1. Fact: Spending for corporate welfare programs outweighs spending for low-income programs by more than three to one: $167 billion to $51.7 billion (source: Aid for Dependent Corporations, from the Corporate Welfare Project and How Much Do We Spend on Welfare?, from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, FY 95 figures) 2. Fact: Total federal spending on a safety net for the poor costs the average taxpayer about $400 a year, while spending on corporate welfare programs costs the same taxpayer about $1400 a year. (source: CBO figures)