When the House got rid of earmarks, we took a step in the right direction towards eliminating Washingtons wasteful spending. But we have a long way to go so long as things like the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park continue to get federal funding. From the Washington Times: The managers of the project promised that the first research offices would open by 2010. Now it’s 2014, and there’s still nothing in the park except for roads to nowhere and the lonesome palms. The UNLV Research Foundation dipped into the federal money pot to pay off the loan it took out to buy $165,000 in furniture and a 58-inch plasma television set for off-site offices, the better to watch the senator on television. Boondoggles like the Harry Reid Research and Technology Park are common, thanks to a wasteful, ineffective federal bureaucracy known as the Economic Development Administration, an agency Congress has used to direct millions of dollars to pay for pork and corporate handouts to favored constituents.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:00:01 +0000
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