or the newest congressional pork report is apt, and this year american tax payers are set to pay for creative research as spending projects like a board of $77000.00 for transgender monkeys, or 465 $1000.00 for christina's, were pigeons. but do the gambling 10 my favorite, $25000.00 to teach a chinese students surfing on sky. know hughes in on this edition of 360 view, we're going to look at one of the oldest traditions in washington dc. wasteful spending and maybe find one or 2 good investments in the next years and us federal budget. maybe let's get started. the

$33000000.00 in debt historic milestone which a treasury officials blame on a roughly 50 percent increase in federal spending between 2019 and fiscal 2021. so of course, the treasury is not going to take accountability and just like a teenager is going to blame the rapid increase in government spending, which happened during the club and 19 pandemic. now the multiple stimulus programs decrease tax revenue and tax cuts. but how long can they actually play the coven? 19 blaine game card, considering it wasn't like they weren't born. this was going to be the result. i mean, when you, when the government encourages businesses to stay closed and workers to stay home of what else to expect. you know, there's a government helping citizens because there's a paid demick going on. i can give it a little grace. however, the amount of money the united states government is currently given and foreign aids, especially to those countries. and the mr. battle is

a whole nother situation. not to mention, well, there's always been comical investments in various research private projects by the united states government. it seems like they have really raised the bar this year with the absurd projects they deem worthy of us tax care dollars. i wanna look at a few others and you specifically is asked for them. $6000000.00 for the us just s grid presidential library at mississippi state university in stark though, as lobby by cit or cindy high, smith, republican from mississippi, now represent mark penn, a democrat from wisconsin, was budgeted 2 $150000.00 to restore the driver opera house in darlington, wisconsin, and those are just 2 of the more than $7396.00 earmarks. that were noted, which was a 43.9 percent increase from the previous year. lots of numbers and the only number that matters. this cost of $26100000000.00 an american tax payer money.

so to help us look at what are the over this traditions in washington dc, wasting taxpayer dollars was bringing our panel. we have political strategist and radio host malik abdul, a political commentator and ready to host steve gill business at all. it's hillary ford, which was also the ceo of a strong mark and a member of the british american business association. the board of directors, thanks for joining me today. port port port. i think you said the best seller would came on. nobody likes sports, and yet lots of people do actually, if you're in elected office, you use it. so in preparation for today show, i actually asked all of you to kind of bring in some of your favorite, wasteful spending projects that you found. i went ahead and hillary, you actually went back in time and found one of your favorite ones. oh yes i did, and actually i did, i did want to start off by saying, i always loved margaret sacked as quote, there's no free lunch. so people think the government's paying for everything i or anything. i say the government has 0 money. it has your money,

your money in your money. i'm my money so it doesn't have any money of it. so secondly, this isn't anything new. do you know what president james? monroe said in 1822. he said, when asked about public works, he said that he thought that they might end up being abused, that it might be a product of able for more public work. so it's nothing new. now to answer your questions specifically my favorite pope. our object of course was the $10000.00 toilet seat. i think that was so absurd. i know we followed up by the $1000.00 pair of pliers, so it's nothing new. this is going on. and that is why in 2011. remember that the republican majority put a stop to old m. okay. well, they thought they put a stop the point of the way to door tools. steve, do you have one that you liked, or you always have such tidbits? this is always great conversations at the dinner table by the way, to bring up, well and, and to follow up on, on hillary's point, if you ask tax payers, should that, should the federal government pay for this or pay for that? their answer is yes and polling. if you ask them, should taxpayers pay for that? the answer is no. we don't have this ability distinguished between taxpayer money.

it's all government money and that's why they can keep doing this year. you had a few years back the, the bridge to know where in alaska, 50 people living there and it was millions and millions of dollars spent there. and we're actually funding a m u z. i'm in the homage. last i checked. that's not even in the united states. well, that's interesting because we talked about the port projects in the united states. there's a whole slew of them that we're paying in other countries, which brings you to the question the league. why did port projects even exist? we saw that the republicans said they cut them, obviously did it. what is the purpose of them? well, technically, so port when people talk about port spending, meaning you may get a library in your so they attached these riders to bills where you may get a library or you may get your roads in your area fix, or it could even be something like internet access like broadband access, so ro politicians add these riders to bill because they help their constituents, those constituents typically like those sort of things. like if you,

they say that you're going to build a facility or something like that. the people in the community to say, yes, my politician is working for me, but i have an example of wasteful spin, a be able, was a project. anyone remembers what was that the big dig or the big it was the boston is about 70 mile road on the road. yeah, yeah. so we're at about 7 miles the road that they were trying to actually put under ground. it initially started, people don't remember this, it initially started, it was um, tip o'neill was one of the ones that was pushing for it back in 1981 in 1981. the cost of the big, the big, big, the cost of it was about $2000000000.00 when they finished it in 2007. the total was $15000000000.00. now the question that people ask, what, how did it get to $15000000000.00? what everyone knows that if you want to get paid, charged the federal government because the federal government will always pay it. and there's a surcharge typically added to when you're talking about the federal government. so

wasteful spending, but everybody kind of shrug and at least boston has 7 miles underground, like 7 miles of road. well, and that brings a point, steve, on this and some port. there is a service report that's just wasteful throwing up that when you said training squirrels, how to it's or down all versus things that actually do help. the community may be a library. i don't want to just that. i say the opera house is so important. good, well and, and just the irony of the listings as grant museum in mississippi to cover all the that one is mind boggling. the port can be good if it's, if it's actually, again, delivering some tax payer money in a specific way to a specific project of the problem is really points out there's, there's no real accountability. we've got to the defense department. you can't account for hundreds of billions of dollars of equipment and machinery. we left 80000000000 behind that f gain to stay and there's no accountability. you know, if a, if a private in the marine corps loses his rifle, he has to pay for it. but a general can lose $80000000000.00 in afghanistan,

and nobody gets fired. nobody gets held accountable. and that's a big part of the problem is it's not just where it goes at the end of the day. it's where we don't know where a lot of it's going well and that's a part of it. you know, what role do lobbyist plan? it's obviously people are up on what will i be as, you know, literally cover the l. a more than politicians. i think there's like a 3 to one ratio. what role did they play and advocating for their fun? oh, we know it's on. so evolves golf to you of and actually the beginning to show you brought top obviously the whole all the cove it and emphasis on what from home and stay at home, which talks did so well. doing cobit all of the funds funding stocks, facebook, amazon, netflix, google, add onto that microsoft airlines, an older ones with all the stocks that will stay at home or to find stokes for the ones that did well. they have the lobby as to lobby. and of course big pharma, it's. ringback truly, every network is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies and as we know pharmaceutical companies from the american medical schools and the chemical companies get the chemicals to put enough food to make

a sick. but then the medical medical school supposedly kills us with the po for now . so this is suck heuer test view, which is lobby is basically a money follow the money if you want to know what is the root of anything, those lobby, as the funded by people that are necessary. having all individual corporate or national best interest at heart and is both parties, i mean, the republican debate, the 1st republican debate as they were debating and fighting over the evils of tech talk the 1st after that block was a tick tock ad. yes, yes. mm hm. so that's it is both parties that go to it. yeah. both parties rail against it moving. both parties have spent enough money. why is there not more tiny account about it? they always say the republicans actually spend more than democrats do. do you agree with that? do you believe that there should be better kind of a warrant, each party holding themselves accountable for their point, their fingers? well because they were required raining in congress, putting good checks and balances and congress, which none of them work. we talked before about the military industrial complex and

how 100 percent of the time politicians on both sides of the aisle are always for funding this military industrial complex. we see in places across a year, which is different. what we're seeing here in america remembered last year, there was all of this economic anxiety built up when he's heard of the protest in paris in brussels, in all across. this was literally economic anxiety. there was no protest in the man in america. there were no and you know, economic anxiety protests in america. we typically in america, we will focus on the cultural issue. so whether that's abortion, or like gay rights or things like, maybe police brutality will march in the streets on those. but when it comes to actually focusing on our economy, trying to force our government to do things, we won't take to the streets at all. and in many ways we'd shrugs and is this something that i actually can not explain why americans are that way? because in europe, they take the streets in europe and the last time you're absolutely melnik's. absolutely right on this the last time that really happened in america was in the

1920s with a huge strike on washington dc, which was the world war one veterans not being paid and you're right. so we're basically a century later on. it's a very good point. we haven't seen that sort of, i would call economic outrage. we don't see that well, and simon congress. so i would actually say they encourage projects because it might put money back in their own own economies in those communities. so they are not that economic outrage, they actually can see spinning of the federal government taking care of it. is that a good justification for the? well, i think you'll early a point was, this is linked to only point is that such thing as good pool? i think there are projects that within the community all necessary and a needed and the certainly, i know i'm from pennsylvania. i mean, i think about, you know, centers of shoes the, i mean he had the infrastructure. they say that the infrastructure in pennsylvania is credit to him. those words being beneficial for the community. so i think there is such a thing as something that's a benefit. well, i want to take my panel and hold it right there, cuz i want to continue this discussion about the good and the bad part of the break

says, looking at specific items, we're going to look at apartments of the federal government, which ones are not a good return of investment for us texting. stick around the same draw. just don't have to safe house to come and engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will support. we choose to look for common ground, the, the name of the this if pm, but he's like, i want to be a see a to, and me and say, guess i am all as little form is all i thought of it

a i want says stop. i don't like that it's on whether the media you got it or not, but i yeah, you got one way just under then you will sit in video sorta the sona a k. i knew i'll, if it goes to you that, i mean, i think he's going on because he, i'm a persona of a be that me court that i, i didn't go don't get almost in the see the best. so that sort of i that out of in to see if they have any single man to some of the manual and all that. i don't want to make them as united be just a model minutes off on you know, the, see them go lives it and say i could look them. but these are, let's see. let me look to see like tennessee, by the video in and out of the system. so that, that policy on that the most to the boss i need to see i'm, let me say the one of us, one of the media and the news about every news before somebody that gets some game with them up. but if you see, i see it goes in

a 2nd. i mean either it is a bicycle know thing and it's like that. and then jerry, i'm going i think the 2nd one. welcome back. let's continue our conversation about the wasteful spending by the us government, with our panel, political strategist to write it has something like a bill, global business analyst, henry ford, which ad circle compton and radio, steve gail, thank you so much for continuing this conversation. obviously there's a lot of pork, so there's a lot to talk about. i'm gonna start with you gil, since you've had a lot of experience with the, with the united federal government, what department of the government do you feel like is wasting the most money? well i, i did that work for the federal government over 2 administrations for a while as the us trade representative's office, which is a small big law firm. but the department of commerce,

if you're wanting to play somebody, that's somebody's brother in law, sister in law, cousin don't or department of commerce is usually where they end up. i think most people go, what does the actual department of commerce do here we're talking about things that actually produce tangible goods. what is the commerce department commerce actually do? they, they promote the sale of goods here and abroad. they do some good things, but it just doesn't take the thousands and thousands of, of workers. and we were talking earlier about the, about which agencies maybe waste the most. i'm involved in the health care business, and it is not a secret that if you want to over price something and sell it to the department of veterans affairs is where it goes. during cove, it we were selling face mask, we were selling the face shields. we were selling them and most people were selling for that $15.00 to $17.00 item, the department of veterans affairs, in some cases, a pay and $50.00 and $60.00. there's nothing worse than ripping off our vets. and yet it's gone and reported unpunished and, and needs a lot more attention. but that's the question. who's doing that sees who do you expect to, to not only report on who's actually benefiting from those sorts of things,

but the vendors that are selling it for a bit. they probably did it. that's the key. it wasn't like this was it on check. hillary allowed people say department education that would would immediately come to mind, not that we shouldn't invest our children's education, but they look at usually that's a large amount. do you feel like that department's education commerce that they're giving the proper scrutiny and why not? is that on purpose? yeah, and i think one of the things is the script and they should also be on all day propaganda machines all of a solving on nation. if that being said, overly tax pays is funded regardless of what your political belief. so if you're democrats, you want it to be over public anointed, which it isn't, of course. but if you're republican, when did you want it to be or democratic carolina, i don't think they should be as, as politically aligned as they all. so that's number one, number 2, when you asked about which one has the most wasted, i remember when trump was elected, remember when 23, i'm senior executives walked out of the state department. i thought, well, what was the different? we actually didn't go to law. so it's better twice for hotel though it is like, wow, what's happening to our basement fully to bits. and then we've got the coma. so i just like to make a comment on this. so i'm,

i'm based here in washington dc. very established, you know, i've been a member of all sorts of clubs and all the business associations, you can imagine whether it's a board of trade in the northern virginia technologist. so i could list like 20 who might be a member of my company. the 23 is network, go to all these events, breakfast lunches and dentist before covet. i never once, not even once met a member of the commerce department out the business. well, what are they doing in the business world? how can they work with international businesses of american businesses to photo businesses if they're not in the business world and do think they're not in washington, but they're in iowa or west virginia? i don't think so. so my question, what is, what are they will do in the building if and not in the business? well, that's my question, which is why i asked you, steve, what exactly does the commerce department do? yeah, that's why i'm sorry. yeah, we've had it back. yeah. and up, i mean you have a great building. another to watch community are, are they, are they type in years? everything online is that they may find it, they collect paychecks and they go to, you know, some seminars. they go to uh, you know, community gatherings in the rest of the country,

but they aren't really interacting and isn't my view creating business? yeah, the other thing i point out on this whole issue is it's not just how these port projects hit us in the pocket book, which it does. it hits us in the policy arena as well. you know, we're pouring billions into ukraine right now and can't really justify where the money is gone. they, they can't really tell us where, where it's going, where it's been spent. but the defense contractors, the same ones that advertise on the sunday morning shows not because they want to sell me an f. 16. they're wanting the members of congress and the standard to know they've got clout. they've got money. and if they want it in their next election, they've better, you know, tells a line, so whether it's day or whether it's in the middle east. a lot of what we do in, in military is to fund the same folks who are funding congress and the same thing. and so we mentioned when it came to coven, all the ads that they were running on fox. and they must nbc sound like you get the box, get the backs were being paid for by the farm, bothered to fix all month, which was getting in tax their dollars on the ice. and how one does about this. he said, be with the military industrial complex, so we have money for border in another country,

but not to school. our own or the military and big farm are equally day for yes. and one might be more dangerous people abroad. the store was very dangerous to hear at home, but along with wasting taxpayer dollars and like do you, do you feel like politicians or even political parties use tax payer dollars to buy the favors to buy the vote within the community? and is that the right thing? let's look at the entitlement system. has it truly just become a way of buying votes? well, so i think there are a couple of things. so we talked about the port spending and there are, there is good port spending. i know no one likes to say that, but there are good projects that are beneficial to communities, but then there are other wasteful projects. what we're seeing and i wanted to pick you back up of what steve said about this wasteful spending at the department of veterans affairs. it was my last government jobs. so i worked in not the, you know, i worked actually in the headquarters not far from here. around the corner from here, and i know then just the amount of contractors that governments now is not just the department of veterans affairs, but the number of contractors that you have doing duplicate works. you may have 3

different contractors working for 3 things. different companies focused on, let's say, communications meaning writing, press releases. this is where the government spends is money. but if i could add an agency that i believe is wasteful in that spending. and in fact, research reports have suggested that very thing is d o. d, which is why we have this conversation now where congressmen they don't even know where the money that we sent and ukraine is going, there is no accounting for any of that because when it comes to our military industrial complex, no questions are ever asked. but you know that these defense contractors are making money hand over foot because of what's happening now in ukraine and what they're ramping up, getting ready to in this support for israel. so i would say the department of defense as far as the wasteful spending, we need to start looking at just had a plane crash of our newest fighter, this the most expensive fighter ever had because it can't fly in bad webster did. we just feel like schedule was about to do it long as i'm sorry,

we can't fight today because it's, it's cloudy, little savvy. yeah. and this is a surprise, but that goes back to like, there's no accountability on this. there is this being done on purpose, is this why there is this web, a bureaucratic protection around these dollars because it's too hard to figure out where it actually goes to. so people just give up and don't care. well, i think it's a cute, i think it's, you know, you scratch my back all scott, jewels on. i think it's a cute us in washington dc and it's both sides of the army. so i don't know how you end and if and again, if, if president james monroe was complaining about the same thing and i as in how want those are the same thing. this is nothing new and it's human nature to be greedy. and i don't see how you end items or how you in the, as, as, as long as we have lobbies, it will never end because they are the ones who are fueling these industry. whether it's the pharmaceutical industry, the defense industry lobbyists are making a killing. and everybody knows if you want to make a lot of money, if you want to leave. capitol hill become, are government affairs director at some company or something which is effectively

a lobby as you go back and you make lots of money and how many of them are greasing the school kids for that next job with contracts width of things goes on as they know that when they leave, those guys are going to hire them. we've got generals that have retired are now advocates and lobbyist for saudi arabia and many of our of our internet. and yet they still have their security clearances. why are we telling them our secrets that they're then selling to their clients? mm hm. which comes back to politicians. complaint about this wasteful spinning. never want to do it ran paul's famous for he constantly talked about bad spinning in factories. become kind of a celebrity in that area. yet he himself doesn't ever do anything about this. why is it so hard? why are more politicians, they talk about it, but no action. you mentioned the lobbyist make money, but the politicians are also making money off. we have to ride hillary us. absolutely. well, actually i'm a, i read something recently to have a, the net worth of all the presidents when they went into office to present into the presidential into part capacity. and what they was when they came out on one of the

ones, for example, obama was worth 1200000 when he went in to office 8 years later, he's worth 80000000. it has almost somebody said, oh, he sold his book. i'm like, well here's the rate or the i don't actually know anybody has a book, but it's not the, it's not just obama, every single one of them increase the net was in office. now how does that happen? i mean, we know the trunk david salary back and didn't take us out. right. but even still, all of them increase our network. how does that happen? now, the other thing is, of course with 5 and for how long he's been in office. i actually did me a very what i think it was. it sounds like an oxymoron, an honest congressman. okay, this was years ago and he was a cold coke. i'm a conservative congressman from california, and he had one child at the time as a single mother putting lots of kids through school. i know how much it costs. he was relieved when his one song was not going to be going to saying university was going to go to the community college instead because he would save money and i was thinking, he's been in congress all these years. he can't even afford university. meanwhile,

by just being in office all those years on a government salary, how one off do you afford all those properties? how to just the beach? how's a loan in delaware? there's no government official who was just on a government paycheck could ever afford a house on the beach in delaware, it would be impossible. so my question is, we should off all of the how do you afford your properties? where does that money come from? all of them dianne feinstein just passed away with a $100000000.00 estate and a 70000000 dollar plane working in government for the last well 2 centuries. how did she master that right at a $180000.00 a year? so it is literally is financially impossible. yeah. but it was gonna ask that you're, you're literally looking at the, the wolf to check the hen house on this one. you all because the reality of it is, they're all doing it for, you know, like said the one that's not, can't afford, you know, the kids going to community college. we're asking the same thing with terminal as politicians to check each other. is there any chance that that will ever happen? no, they're not going to, they're not going to do that. and i would even say if politicians actually, if americans want it to do something, pressure, call the politicians to do something. they would say if the government shuts down

members of congress, you don't get paid either. well, i think that's a fantastic point. now it's a very good point. we'd l, your staff be there as a nor there the health care they get exemptions from the older child health mandates that it was a woman's from. yeah. for everything able to use their insight or knowledge to trade stocks and millions of dollars that you are. i would go to jail for one thing i would say on that you're absolutely right. remember when that is as simple as husband all the trading demands, there was an app and i think i would like to put what i know to be. that's what i believe it's cool people, but you can actually use the app to track what they're trading and then you can follow it. so, you know, you're definitely not a because like what we get inside of knowledge that we haven't given citizens knew what, how much money they were getting from the lobbyist. and it's not easy to find. i think they should have to, whenever they go on the floor of congress, they should have to be like a nascar drive. i don't have that. oh, i like that, or i like not tell you and i like that. well, you make a point, even us athletes at least go for the have the locals, a lot of you know, whose hands are even pension. so we haven't even discussed pensions that the congressional pension project is probably a lot more than you and i average forget the business. say thank you so much for

this. we could continue, have this conversation about it. and we will, i can promise you that because at one time p j over arg was set, is a popular delusion that the government waste vast amounts of money through inefficiency and swap a norm as effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money. however, just like with most of the problems which politicians complaint about on the campaign trail, fixing, the problem is never their goal with the federal budget. so large is the sheer amount of almost $200.00 pages was. it's almost like they know they can get away with it as who has the time to actually read every page with a fine tooth comb. sadly, there are real issues in american streets which need attention. but i guess, unless the homeless population or veterans find a way to pay for a large lobbying firm, they will always be viewed by the belt way as less important than the transgender monkeys the sky. now he's and this has been your 360 view say,

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