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Thats more than triple the projected annual income from barack obamas beloved buffett rule. Defiant houston strip club owner closes doors after police. Wastebook 2012 is the latest in what has become an annual tradition for coburn in an effort to reduce what he considers to be. Oct 22, 2012 for each of the past three years, senator tom coburn rokla. Oct 16, 2012 known simply as the waste book, the report is a watchlist of eyeopening expenditures, which coburn blames on a let them eat caviar attitude in washington at a time when 23 million of our. Coburn report reveals waste citizens against government. As the economy staggers toward collapse under the weight of the government spending democrats use to justify taxmageddon, townhall touches on a few of the more outrageous examples of reckless extravagance described in senator tom coburns wastebook 2012 pdf. Coburn finds 100 examples of government spending clearly not serving its designed purpose. Agency for international development usaid program for pottery classes in. Government documents general collection and was provided by unt libraries government documents department to unt digital library. Coburn lists the top ten most eyebrowraising expenditures.
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