50 WAYS TO RUIN YOUR COUNTRY

This is the start of our new segment covering goverment waste. Tune in each day to hear Malcolm give 5 examples how your elected leaders are flushing your money down the toilet.

Day 1

1. Fraudulent Charges Made on Govt Credit Cards
   Fraud is rampant among government issued credit cards. Abuses include paying for internet dating services, dinners at upscale restaurants and other personal expenditures.
    
   
2. Taxpayers funding $50,000 self portraits
   Cabinet secretaries and elite political appointees are having their portraits at the cost of taxpayers. Paintings can cost as much as $50,000
    
   
3. Errors not in your favor
   Medicare has mistakenly sent refunds to recipients totaling millions of dollars.
    
   
4. What you can get for a buck.
   In order to raise state caseload figures which would generate $43 million in federal food benefits, the government issued $1.00 checks to 250,000 households.
   
   
5. Double $$ Header
   $60,000 dollars per hour were spent taking photos of Air Force One in front of national landmarks. The mission took 3 hours and 2 fighter jets flew alongside. The cost totaled $328,835.