<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f889eaa2-ab6b-44e2-8e8c-ad4b680a1177/836E440C-505C-4DFB-9DAB-EDD9C65950E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm" href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.heritage.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm">Soaring government spending and trillion-dollar budget deficits have brought fiscal responsibility--and reducing government waste--back onto the national agenda. President Obama recently identified 0.004 of 1 percent of the federal budget as wasteful and proposed eliminating this $140 million from his $3.6 trillion fiscal year 2010 budget request.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Over half of all farm subsidies</B> go to commercial farms, which report average household incomes of $200,000.<A name="_ednref12" href="#_edn12" title="">[12]</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than <B>$60 billion</B> annually.<A name="_ednref13" href="#_edn13" title="">[13]</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers <B>$146 million</B> annually in flight upgrades.<A name="_ednref15" href="#_edn15" title="">[15]</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">More than <B>$13 billion</B> in Iraq aid has been classified as wasted or stolen. Another <B>$7.8 billion</B> cannot be accounted for.<A name="_ednref22" href="#_edn22" title="">[22]</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Washington has spent <B>$3 billion</B> re-sanding beaches--even as this new sand washes back into the ocean.<A name="_ednref27" href="#_edn27" title="">[27]</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2642.cfm"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The Conservation Reserve program pays farmers <B>$2 billion</B> annually not to farm their land.<A name="_ednref49" href="#_edn49" title="">[49]</A></LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/836E440C-505C-4DFB-9DAB-EDD9C65950E5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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