the other side of the story jim harper director of information policy studies at the cato institute it. still comes in i have the pentagon's love of spending your tax dollars earned them nights told time award and also stick around for happy hour reporter is outed by a competitor for being a surfer plus reports a dominic strauss kahn that loves luggage i'll explain in just a moment. the official we can join the one called touch from the dumpster. lights on the good. video on demand. smiling. omissions for you now with the palm of your. machine on the call. real. real. real. real. real. cold real world video for your media drug deal gone to argy dot com. it's. time now for tonight's told time award and this time it's going to the pentagon we've discussed the after thirty five program on the show it's time and time again you know the most expensive defense program ever the one that's been riddled with problems and the lazy the jets have been grounded for everything from valve issues to parachute problems in the past few months and let's not forget to mention that the persistently faulty

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a 2009 article published by jim powell of the cato institute noted that a study estimated the annual cost of capital subsidies exceeded $1.2 billion, including taxes that the tennessee valley authority was able to avoid. in 1997, the heritage foundation issued a report entitled "five good reasons to force the t.v.a. into mandatory retirement." this report stated, "throughout its history, the t.v.a. has benefited from generous subsidies, tax breaks, and regulatory exemptions that allow it to keep its power rates lower than the national averages, yet despite its protective geographic monopoly, substantial indirect subsidies totaling roughly 1.2 billion each year sweeping across the broad regulatory exemptions, the t.v.a. has managed to amass a debt of w well over $27 billion and a disturbing record of waste, mismanagement, and chronic cost overruns." the private nonprofit group citizens against government waste has suggested selling the t.v.a.'s electric assets and privatizing its nonpower functions. in their 2011 list of prime cuts -- that's a quote, the words "prime cuts is a title."