by Paul Waldman
When
it was discovered that the General Services Administration spent nearly
a million dollars on a lavish conference in Las Vegas, the outrage
thundered through Washington like a roiling tsunami. Congressional
hearings were quickly organized, the scandal led the news every night
for days, and you couldn't turn on a television or radio without hearing
more horrifying details. The public trust was betrayed! Our tax dollars
were wasted! Government was out of control! Yeah, maybe. But in the
end, the whole thing was about $823,000, or .00004 percent of the
federal budget for 2011. You want to talk real government waste? Get a
load of
the F-35 joint strike fighter:
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