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Creative accounting is a time honored craft practiced by both political parties, especially when it comes to federal appropriations that have few if any strings attached.
1 posted on 02/04/2023 9:54:45 AM PST by buckalfa
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To: buckalfa

Jimmy justice…. Trumps golf buddy.. or I guess Golf Billionaire.
Running the corruptocracy just like we knew he would.


2 posted on 02/04/2023 9:57:43 AM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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Why the mystery? This is where most government spending is supposed to go.


3 posted on 02/04/2023 10:00:32 AM PST by DPMD (ua)
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“He told senators that the state faced a deadline to spend the remaining $28 million from federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funds.”


Apparently the thought never crossed their minds to not spend the money and return it to FedGov. This mindset is why we always run deficits.

“The money has to be spent by Sept. 30th or we lose it. So just buy anything.”


5 posted on 02/04/2023 10:15:53 AM PST by hanamizu
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“.... faced a deadline to spend the remaining $28 million from federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief ...”

I understand that untold billions of Federal taxpayer monies are wasted with the same “deadline” with no conditions reasoning, every year. Money not spent by deadline should be returned to the Treasury as well as money mistakenly appropriated. There is too much slush money floating around among these departments and agencies. Return it!!!


6 posted on 02/04/2023 10:17:39 AM PST by elpadre (nd )
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To: buckalfa

Our feral government used our stolen taxpayer money to bribe local governments to torment us.


7 posted on 02/04/2023 10:26:57 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (Germans are bat-crap crazy for cold showers, high energy bills, and boiled turnips.)
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Thank you for referencing that article buckalfa. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Senators ask how $28 million in covid money went first to governor’s fund and then to baseball project[WV]"


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

If this were a better world, lots of state and federal lawmakers and bureaucrats would be going home permanently under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment imo, for open rebellion against the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, many post-17th Amendment (17A) ratification lawmakers scandalously helping to pass CV19 and irresponsible omnibus spending bills that they have probaly not thoroughly read imo.

"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof [emphases added]. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

After all, peacetime military maintenance aside, how many 4,155 page omnibus spending bills does it take to run the US Mail Service, one of the very few powers that the states have actually given to Congress to dictate domestic policy?

The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification corrupt political party treason (imo)...

All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.

If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.

If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.

With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.

In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.

Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.

8 posted on 02/04/2023 10:45:57 AM PST by Amendment10
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You can bet of lot of the Covid money found its way into communist democrat activist groups.


9 posted on 02/04/2023 10:51:19 AM PST by Revel
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“How, legally, could we use covid money for a baseball facility?”

Ask Nancy P….she knows how because she made sure the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts got $25 mil.

16 posted on 02/04/2023 12:27:38 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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Senators ask how $28 million in covid money went first to governor’s fund and then to baseball project[WV]

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How ?

Like a hot knife through butter.


17 posted on 02/04/2023 1:12:26 PM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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Gov Gavin Newsom stole $1.6 billion in April 2020.
He did not get permission from the state legislatures to use the money. He said it was for buying face masks that were to be bought from a Chines BUS company. The same company that when was mayor of San Francisco bought electric buses from. Those buses need constant repair and cannot get up the hills in the city. No masks were ever bought. The money was his buy in for a president run.


18 posted on 02/04/2023 9:42:15 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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