WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its April WasteWatcher, a monthly dispatch to members of the news media, highlighting some of the most prominent fiscal issues of interest to American taxpayers. The stories from April’s WasteWatcher edition are below:
Medicare Fraud: All Talk, No Action
By Leslie Paige
The
Medicare Trust Fund, which is in the red and on track to reach
insolvency by 2026, needs every penny it can get. Thanks to the Recovery
Audit Contractor (RAC) program... Read
the full story here.
Showdown at the Part D Corral
By Elizabeth Wright
Medicare
Part D is one of the few government-created programs that has
consistently cost less than the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO)
original estimates... Read
the full story here.
Obamaloans: The Bank of ACORN
By William M. Christian
After
the public humiliation of the Association of Community Organizations for
Reform Now (ACORN) in late 2009 and its subsequent dissolution (at least
at the national level) by early 2010, one might have thought... Read
the full story here.
Don’t Expand Government Broadband
By Deb Collier
On
March 18, 2014, I had the opportunity to attend the Free
State Foundation’s Sixth Annual Telecom Policy Conference. Keynoted
by Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, former acting chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC)... Read
the full story here.
Murkowski’s Folly
By Sean Kennedy
The first rule of
communications is crafting an effective message.
A March 11, 2014 op-ed
in the Los Angeles Times by former Secretary of the Interior
Bruce Babbitt provided a unique glimpse into how messaging used by
politicians can shift over time... Read
the full story here.
CAGW is the nation’s largest nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
