What Does The Comptroller General Say?
David M. Walker is Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Mr. Walker is “talking to anybody who will listen, about the fiscal black hole Washington has dug itself.” He states “If the United States government conducts business as usual over the next few decades, a national debt that is already $8.5 trillion could reach $46 trillion or more, adjusted for inflation. That’s almost as much as the total net worth of every person in America” –… How Much Is Outright Waste Each Year? Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has been tracking wasteful government programs since 1984. This watchdog group’s latest yearly figure of how much is unnecessary is $232 billion dollars. Remember this gets piggybacked every year. Over 5 years, it amounts to more than $1 trillion dollars-yes that is trillion with a t. For decades we have waited as congress tells us what it will do. With the means of communications now available to millions of voters we should attempt to work at
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