This is a great post, Brad. And it's not-at-all-ironic!

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Yes, it is not ironic. His Op-ed actually shows he might be .... um...deceptive :blush:

Brad,

Beautiful observations. Lets move on forward and remember the task at hand is enormous. But it really is worthwhile.

Keep up the good work.

Nice post, Brad.

Maybe Feeney can ask NASA to put some of the billions of dollars he has recently helped push through for them ( http://www.house.gov/app...l24_feeney/FY05NASA.html) towards "Evolving Technologies" such as printers.

Hell, who needs a missile defense shield, or a man on Mars? What those rocket scientists need to put their calculus and particle physics theory to work on is how to hook up a Canon Bubblejet (with auto-paper-feed, no less!) to a contraption called a "computer".

It will take years of research, I'm sure. But if they need any help, my 5-year-old may have time in her busy playtime schedule to show them how its done.

Tom Feeney in his own Deeds:

Just taking the 'google pulse', I typed in feeney +fraud. The most interesting result was the fox news link from 2003 http://www.foxnews.com/s...ory/0,2933,93233,00.html

In light of Clinton Curtis' affidavit claiming that Feeney was adept at swinging government (Florida) contracts in the direction of companies (YEI) that he lobbied for, as well as Curtis' testimony that YEI, which Feeney also represented legally, was adept at overbilling i.e. defrauding said governement agencies, FDOT etc. and federal agencies like NASA, it is very interesting to read in the fox news story that:

Over $200 million a year is wasted or defrauded from the federal employee health benefits and retirement programs, according to recent testimony in the House Government Reform Committee, and lawmakers are looking for ways to reduce the losses. (...) Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., ranking Democrat on the committee, said the “real waste, fraud and abuse” is in the Department of Defense, which contracts out more work than any other agency and handles more than $1 trillion in assets. 

“If we’re serious about curbing waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government, we have to stick with the old adage, ‘follow the money,'” he said.

In July, (2003) three freshman House lawmakers announced the “Washington Waste Watchers,” in which they hope to identify “the shocking amounts of wasted tax dollars”

hmmm. W.W.W. ???

and that:

Reps. Tom Feeney, R-Fla., Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., plan to take to the House floor every week to bring attention to different areas of waste, mismanagement and fraud in the federal bureaucracy.

“Spending other people’s money can be an intoxicating experience,” Feeney told Foxnews.com. “Part of this is to remind ourselves and one another that we are the guardian watchdogs of the taxpayers’ purse.” "

What has the freshman been up to in DC ?

Would someone with the time and the resources look into it please.

E.D.

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Just wanted to make one clarification: Nevada is NOT 100% paper trails. The Sequoia's in the most populous areas of Las Vegas, mostly Democratic areas, are the old models without paper printers. I had heard this, and then confirmed it personally with the Secretary of State at the Conyers 128/04 meeting in DC. I got very aggravated by him because even there, he tried to imply that NV was 100% paper trail, but it is not.