Ridiculous Ways Gov't Wastes Your Money

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[@TWDxKILL3R]

"It's not really taxpayer money, it's from a federal grant". God help this country but I seriously know we are doomed ......

[@danlyons4602]

This is why I invest money and set myself up for a nice retirement. Own rentals and invest that money... That way when everyone my age has fucked off their whole life, I'll have enough money set asside that if they decide to raise taxes to 90%... I'll still be rich.

[@Iancreed8592]

you don't get it uni blab, he would still be getting monthly income off his rentals. He can always raise rent to pay for anything he needs...his tennants can deal with it or go sleep outside. I didn't even get started on equity.

[@brokenmatrix366]

@@danlyons4602 Not if the communist / far left takes over and starts taxing your assets

[@lovinsnotfun-eranymore5213]

What was the Gender of the Mouth and Empty Skull that , that statement came out of ? . . And THAT Gender says shit like that Everyday - All Day , and has Absolutely No Conscience or Guilt for the wasting of everything they touch . . As a man will either fix it for her or Buy her another one All for FREE Also ! " I'm a Girl " and I can change my > mind < ??

[@kermitdafrog8]

@@brokenmatrix366 or take his property and tell him it's not his to rent out anymore.

[@sanosuke2999]

That council woman looks like the physical manifestation of Greed.

[@ThisIsNotPictureTube]

sanosuke2999 and sloth :D

[@beowulf916]

Looks like something you'd find down in Dante's Inferno

[@halldormani1412]

She looks like a molerat from fallout 4

[@stevewright6632]

Yeah holy Christ rofl

[@EXVAS3221]

Stay out of my life, government! The bigger the government is the more it has control over its own people. Everything the government touches turns to shit. You should have asked that lady how much it cost for giving out bike helmets? And then let the taxpayers decide whether it is a waste of money or not.

[@cuentadecorreodedan]

I love this man. I'm not american, but i miss how american media used to sound and look like. Professional, calm, a bit of sarcastic sass, a bit of genuine concern, a respectful tone for the viewer, clean look, uncovering stuff regular people are not aware of, without painting it like it's the end of the world, and keeping bias to a minimum.

[@dankykang7101]

Same, its sad that there is basically no one left like this. The opinion guys on fox stick to the pro-trump stuff (i say as a trump voter), without an inkling of independence. Stossel is the last real journalist by now.

[@johnnewson2]

The man is a treasure. He deserves our admiration and respect.

[@jasonbrown4526]

"The money isn't coming from taxpayers, it's a federal grant." God help us. These people are allowed to vote.

[@metalthewarrior6685]

Late comment, but it’s worse People voted her in lol

[@XwpisONOMA]

No you idiot, you voted her in you f*cking moron!

[@gadsden472]

Which is why at one point only educated land owners could vote

[@rageraptor7127]

Tbh it’s not entirely the people fault. Because they don’t necessarily decide who gets to run in the first place. And the politicians also have an incentive to use that money to gain votes rather than help the community. A smart politician will do either something altruistic or greedy if it gets them elected. After all that’s the nature of politics. It’s not about who is the nicest but who is the most manipulative. This is why we the people have to pressure them and no matter how much we support a politician we have to be critical of their decisions. So they understand we won’t put up with their bull.

[@angelgjr1999]

They are the reason why Trump got elected.

[@kennyRuizNo]

Since it's not a lot of money, she should pay for it with her salary.

[@gmarefan]

She will tell you that is not a lot of money either, which it is and comes from tax payers

[@MikhaelAhava]

Taxpayers pay for her salary as well.

[@jsmeezzie7]

5:26 such a punchable face lol

[@meredithheadquist6657]

All that "not a lot of money" adds up to a huge amount of money that was taken from working people. All politicians should have term limits AND something must be done about the lobbyists!

[@michaelpaliden6660]

@@meredithheadquist6657 NO term limits they should spend as long in jail as the crime calls for.

[@chihirogustafson8557]

It's not tax money is grant money hahahahahaha what a joke

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

That's a fucking elected official too, that's the scary part.

[@martymcfly5423]

Since she is a Politician she has to evade that question ^^

[@jensjensen9035]

Chihiro Gustafson have you heard of just printing money

[@jhoughjr1]

isnt recess over? when you get back in ask ur teacher how the government has the money to pay those grants. thats why good governments are ran by the experienced and not the young fools.

[@daleyotter4607]

Is your profile picture from the Minnesota high school mountain bike races?

[@demonchild8452]

"this money isn't from the tax payers, it's from a government grant" The government doesn't have money that's NOT from the tax payers.

[@bethh1068]

areyousureaboutthat.gif lobbyists my dude

[@demonchild8452]

@@bethh1068 lobbyists are not government. They're special interest groups like worthless Nike

[@evanw2195]

beth h lobbyist are not paying for this country, they’re paying for small bribes to select politicians, tax payers are always the majority of the governments income

[@partydean17]

Well hold up sometimes the CIA is able to make a littl3 extra from their cocaine buisness

[@gadsden472]

How gov works. A road needs built. Goes out for bid. 1st bid $250k 2nd bid $500k 3rd bid $2.5 million Gov guy asks 3rd bid why he should pick him when he's 10x more expensive. Because I'll sub the job to the first guy for 250 and you and I will split the rest.

[@philipmoore449]

Gads Den not that I have to tell YOU, but that is how it works in the most literal sense. Like...literally

[@wowsuchhandle]

So true

[@chrissmith8830]

I remember doing contracts for my unit years ago. When we needed equipment, we had to contact all GSA approved vendors and get a quote. The vendors weren't cheap by any means. We were pressured by our superiors to buy the cheapest equipment, so we had more funding for other stuff. If we wanted a more expensive product, me and my supervisors had to write an essay long justification as to why it was needed over it's cheaper competitors. I just rambled, not sure how televangelist this isn't. 😂🤣

[@lambda653]

Good old political machines

[@someoneuppingdudetechnical6320]

This is depressingly true damnit

[@alexanderchippel]

I want to watch shrimp run on treadmills as much as the next guy, but it shouldn't be funded by the government.

[@EXVAS3221]

Nothing should be funded by the government, as soon as the government takes control of anything, it goes down the drain. "Not a lot of money" give me a break.

[@csyarid]

@oldedude51 " innovation and new products and new markets are fueled by "basic science" but almost nobody funds it" is a bullshit argument that politicians use and have fooled the People into believing in order to justify wasting taxpayers money. Politicians think money grows on trees and they want to grab their share to secure the votes for next election.

[@MikhaelAhava]

Yup.

[@DrEhrfurchtgebietend]

I would pay for it

[@shadmansudipto7287]

@oldedude51 there is no proof of that.

[@maxcohen13]

"It's not a lot of money." It's more than $0.

[@scottmckay9535]

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about a lot of money.

[@anonasdf2570]

Rusty Shackleford Shut up dale.

[@rjohnhacker]

“I used to smoke” “And then you got a blackberry” “..” “He got a blackberry”

[@GamingIncMasterTroll]

Aktully I got blueberry

[@zeusthunder6799]

Nah, I got a Stiiizy.

[@Kupcho58]

Of course she didn't allow him to finish the sentence. Might not have gone the way she wanted to spin it; can't have that.

[@NoFlu]

@@Kupcho58 are you seriously suggesting the guy would've said "yea, the blackberry initiative helped" Dude would have probably said, he got a GF/kid/job/couldn't effort it anymore...

[@svtirefire]

"it's not from tax money, it's from grants" *facepalm"

[@redstarfarms2778]

40,000 bike helmet givin away. If a helmet costs, around here anyway, $5. That's $200 THOUSAND tax dollars wasted and money that your local bike shops lost.

[@z100com]

It cost more than $5, especially with government doing the buying.

[@maxter3326]

A good helmet like that cost around 25-40$, but since it's government it probably cost them 400$ a piece lol. I mean common they spent 2 million $ on small public bathroom and said it was good deal.

[@mattlane2282]

Better yet, thats also tax money the gov lost... Save america, kill a politician.

[@kenjsr1]

And don't forget, those helmets are made in China 🇨🇳.

[@danlyons4602]

And those helmets were closer to 40 dollars each.

[@furtim1]

I am glad this was made, but it is so hard to click the "like" button when the video makes you want to punch drywall.

[@jonathancarshow9573]

furtim1 don't go punching walls I broke the drywall then went out side and punched the outside wall almost fucked up my hand

[@VaporForce]

But punching drywall will create more construction jobs!!! Can’t you see the benefits? 😂

[@jhoughjr1]

whats not to like about creating jobs?

[@HDMI-tb5ig]

Very true.did you notice how the people are just as greedy? grabbing free helmets they could afford instead of them going to someone in need😔

[@jsmeezzie7]

5:26 such a punchable face lol

[@bunnyfps2469]

Let’s be honest, we need more tax payer money to go to studying shrimp on treadmills

[@bobbob5007]

i mean that story is kinda misleading till we know the full experiment

[@ragnarok7976]

@@bobbob5007 Good could come of it but why does everybody need to pay for it before that happens? That's the thing, normally someone would do the research, prove there is a worth in that line of study. Consumers can then look at that proof and the products of that study and decide if they want to purchase them. The permissions just don't line up from where I'm standing. Government = Could benefit you; must pay for. Market = could benefit you; could pay for. Just like you said, it's misleading because you don't know what the goal or use of such an experiment would be, yet you are paying for it. Even if you were never told about it at all, you were still paying for it (assuming you pay taxes in America). Does it matter if good comes from it if they were going to take your money either way?

[@bobbob5007]

@@ragnarok7976 150k is a trial study things that are on going are easily over the millions

[@alex15095]

@@ragnarok7976 Immune system research comes with positive externalities, so there would be a market failure in this case

[@47997137x]

"It's not a lot of money" These people are like small children. They don't appreciate what things cost because it's never their own money that gets spent.

[@-7-man]

You must be very popular among children. 😂

[@fanboiahoy4706]

Shad Oria Don’t act like a dumbass

[@Seabass-a]

I appreciate $1trillion Obama spent to modernize a nuclear arsenal we will never use👍

[@MarkoUntitled]

A single fucking $ of my money is worth a lot to me. I want to spend it responsibly.

[@crazytigerspy9420]

@@Seabass-a this never happened though

[@TheSandboxbob]

Step 1: Claim a product or a service is a human right, or a necessity to the public Step 2: Ask congress for money to subsidize this service or product (of course being sure to ignore any existing deficit, or spending budgets in place) Step 3: When small businesses/ service providers slowly die out; claim to combat this crisis by raising taxes, duplicating existing government actions and programs to create more jobs Step 4: Champion your self in the next election as being a moral leader by taking other peoples money to pay for this worthy cause, and justify it by saying the economic crisis in relation to this product or service has been solved........despite what the evidence might show

[@erikb2301]

TheSandboxbob you are a wise man

[@bobtony6036]

You forgot.... Step 5: Make millions for yourself during this process.

[@jonathancarshow9573]

TheSandboxbob and soon we all live like peasents under kings waiting for a handout to get by

[@DarkMustard1337]

Libertarianism is a mental disorder

[@DarkMustard1337]

When you give private entities all the rights and blame an employee for why they are poor and supress wages how can ppl pay for healthcare and college? youre way off base

[@CaliforniaArchitect]

I think I saw some of those bike helmets being resold on ebay.

[@PokerIsLife13]

I love how he really sticks it to politicians when asking them questions. This is real journalism

[@manny75586]

When she claimed grant money wasn't taxpayer money I almost had a heart attack. Then of course "but we're saving lives!" gets trotted out. Shocked she didn't say "children's lives" for maximum feels.

[@jessethomas7949]

My response would have been. The strong will survive.

[@davidjones3165]

They weren't hanging out free helmets to children. Tfey must hate children.

[@daviddavis7752]

OMG, "The National Money Hole," sounds like something our government WOULD do. Let's NOT give them any ideas.

[@accountburner4714]

david davis I can see it now "it will help the poor, sick and needy in Canada if we put the money in a pit in Mexico!"

[@notmuch_23]

No, that will *never* happen. Why? It's *FAR* more responsible than what the Government does with money otherwise!

[@wojciech91]

Reality calling. Your government DOES do that. ALL the TIME.

[@ImranZakhaev9]

Wait till yous hear about what happens to circulated bills.

[@nekogaming1715]

@@ImranZakhaev9 In ways the money go to waste, they might just well dump it in a hole, it's actually way better

[@macc240038]

All over N.Y. you will see signs that cost hundreds of dollars to make that read something like ," this improvement to your park or this road" etc. And under it the name of the governor and the mayor. But the gov. And mayor didn't reach into their pockets to personally fund any improvements. The taxpayers did. If there is a sign, that's what it should read. This improvement funded by the taxpayers of NY. Politicans using taxpayers money to erect signs to take credit and pat themselves on the back disgusts me.

[@knuffle9872]

Exactly!

[@Joshua-gv1ep]

Amen

[@chrispafrieddreamaster4085]

WTF....

[@windymoment885]

Are there any politicians who actively go out and actually pay for it themselves?? Or live in an "ok" home?

[@springerworks002]

You can always replace the current sign.

[@wesjones6370]

“There is no national money hole.” Yes there is John. It’s called Congress.

[@PlanetRockJesus]

John Stossel rocks. He's not afraid to tell the politicians that they suck!

[@Fusiongearz]

Not a lot of money eh? How about they fund it with their paycheck then we will see that attitude change real fast.

[@DesertSessions93]

their paycheck comes from taxes.

[@TheZombiesAreComing]

Crap like this is why our founding fathers originally wanted Government jobs to be without pay.

[@Ziqrul]

@Filip Nikolic are you high?

[@jamesstokes9167]

Time to drain the swamp!

[@wesjones6370]

“It’s not taxpayer money, it comes from government grants.” That’s from someone in charge of your tax money America. Let that sink in.

[@JonathanSH]

I have so much respect for the people who do interviews in this show, even if they are very wrong. I feel like politicians and CEOs now would just dodge questions or not show up

[@Fishwithadeagle]

I don't understand why this doesn't have more views. I mean the production value is great.

[@DataJuggler]

Because Google doesn't recommend conservative videos. If it was about Transgenders, non whites, women, gays or pro leftist ideas it would get widely recommended.

[@Redster3]

@@DataJuggler Conservative and Libertarian videos/articles/blogs being removed and shadow banned are the modern day book burnings

[@wojciech91]

Because the NWO wants to maintain their alternate reality that they've woven for us. So they don't recommend anything that could possibly awaken people to the truth.

[@chocoboranger5006]

Wait, hollyood hogan's old gang NWO is behind all this?

[@thinhtranba5352]

They don't want us to see the truth.

[@Fulano.de.Tal.]

"It's not a lot of money?"... They say that until it's their money, then they'll say to leave their money alone. Tell them that the People will vote to lower their salaries and benefits, then they'll cry out, and We'll respond with "It's ok, it won't be a lot of money."

[@kf338]

Instead they vote to give themselves more money

[@parisconstantinidis4645]

What a STUPID, idiotic waste of money.. thank you, Stossel, for going out and questioning and exposing them. Keep up the good work!

[@ZachRob15]

If someone has enough money to buy a bike, wouldn’t they have enough money to buy a helmet as well?

[@abbyor16]

Absolutely. And if not, it isn’t a human right to have a bike or a bike helmet. It’s a luxury. Work hard and save up. Tax payers do not owe it to you. It’s insane...

[@Saucer500]

@@abbyor16 👏👏👏👏👏

[@buyerenogurlfwendo2106]

I mean sometimes there’s bikes at good will for cheap so not necessarily

[@buyerenogurlfwendo2106]

@@abbyor16 I agree it is a luxury/privilege; just like having a driver’s license is a privilege.

[@deanjordan6053]

@@abbyor16 Most people don't even use a helmet when riding, they use responsibility. A helmet is just an extra layer of protection, you said it perfectly.

[@177SCmaro]

If it's not a lot of money for bike helmets then why doesn't this lady get her checkbook out and buy everyone there a bike helmet?

[@jred7]

I live in New Mexico. Maybe the onion wasn't too far off.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Grab some money from the hole for me.

[@toughmanrandysavage3077]

I'm sorry but I am all for the shrimp treadmill tests lol. Look at that little shrimp running on that tiny treadmill. So cute!

[@9erempire549]

Those helmets were probably paid by some of that bike store tax money 🙏🤦🏽‍♂️

[@alex12342715]

The research programs can be argued, but a "cowboy poetry festival." Are you kidding?

[@nobullshit9721]

And he stood up (with a straight face) and said ima spend hella money on nonsense

[@angelgjr1999]

Pretty much legal money laundering. Senators get a cut when a company gets a job.

[@NoFlu]

Yea, not like they could finance it themselves. You don't need a lot of equipment and could make money by selling gifts, food etc....

[@MatthewJohnson-ps5uv]

John Stossel for Prez

[@raycism5285]

I agree

[@ImranZakhaev9]

Not a chance. This guy is a shill just like everyone else. At least elect someone with reasonable views.

[@mallubhai0MBBS]

Expose them Stossel! Well done!

[@williamwarren5269]

Stossel you are a true journalist.

[@wittelarry1]

She has a nice tooth

[@dankley9969]

Good Lord that woman is repulsive at the end

[@Daviedootle83]

Stossel rocks! I could watch him on a loop for hours.

[@Vapir87]

You are fantastic, John! Thank you!

[@Dano-uf8ys]

If my taxes paid for free helmets, you damned right I'd take one.

[@27TheJose]

5:30 cringe

[@Samuel-I]

Jose Pineda ... I could put you on that, Jose... 😆

[@doctorpropain8902]

It looks like her face is melting off her head.

[@smeador00]

Lmao - what a DAB… “it’s not from tax payers, it’s from a grant…”

[@TeachAManToAngle]

Don't ever quit John Stossel. You do the peoples work.

[@marksicotte6403]

when are they going to drain the swamp?

[@spuriouseffect]

Not until the people revolt, or stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. Two wings of the same bird.

[@nobullshit9721]

Both the party’s are absolute fucked in the way they spend money

[@ManuelGomez-ef7mb]

@uh wot absolutely

[@JoeJoe-ci5fs]

Don't you just love those socialists

[@Okayand33]

No.

[@kinorris1709]

Yeah, they provide great comedy material.

[@basgerritsen9669]

Haha wait untill you get to europe, your american "socialists" are conservatives compared to the socialists or even the middle of the ground here. Our governments in sweden or the netherlands spend relatively way way way way more than the us government and their national deficit is much smaller and there is no money hole over here. And those countries don't look like they haven't had any money to fix anything public since the 80s. The pattern I see in the U.S is; We want less taxes! Okay but the government won't do as much for you The people need government support! All right we'll just raise the taxes on the very rich and.... No, we want lower taxes! And so on and so on. A millionaire in the U.S pays a about as much tax as someone who has a nice managing job here...... No wonder the government has no money.f

[@plederfagella9774]

Nah this is just lobbying

[@txtrang2515]

They're loveable until they start rounding people up for disagreeing with them. Let's begin the project with cancel culture. Anyone who studied Maoist China will see deep parallels of our current events.

[@pyreotusbark8954]

LOL I remember in elementary school we used to play in one of those money-grabber machines. Lots of fun for us, but probably not for whatever schmuck that money came from

[@strawhatluffy1880]

John Stossel and Tucker Carlson: the best Fox News would ever have.

[@kenp7814]

If I stood up in Congress and demanded the end of pork .... I'd be called "Porkphobic" I'd be a "Expense Denier"

"This is not s lot of money" is never followed by "therefore we spend it from our own pockets". OPM.

[@Emanemoston]

Keep up the good work John, thank you.

[@pinkmillk]

I lived in Guam for 3 years and I'll tell you - the brown tree snake is a legitimate concern there. I'm happy the Navy base had measures in place to protect all of our families from those venomous snakes.

[@danieldaniels7571]

That was the one thing he mentioned that sounded reasonable to me on the surface, but I think a lot of people don’t realize that Guam is a US territory

[@pinkmillk]

I agree with everything except bashing getting rid of the brown tree snakes in Guam. I lived there for three years while serving in the Navy. That's federally funded on base only and it's to protect service members and their families from these very venomous snakes.

[@orppranator5230]

pinkmillk or we could simply allow You soldiers go around killing the snakes for your own benefit.

[@chadsimmons6347]

those snakes are common on many islands, Japan has an island devoted to them

[@MikhaelAhava]

I think they’re an invasive species that snuck about ships and planes and got into the wild and bred like hell dominating over the native species.

[@mpeugeot]

They are not very venomous snakes, but yes, they are venomous and they are disruptive to natural ecosystem in Guam. The real reason is because they nearly single-handedly wiped out the bird population and caused an explosion in the insect population.

[@kill.all.liberals6865]

@NihilisticEntropy Trolls are fucked up people. No decent, self-respecting individual would sink to such a debased level.

[@zeusthunder6799]

"I used to smoke." (Hits Stiiizy)

[@bertlee3470]

PUBLIC pensions are the devil. why does the public sector have to take of public employees retirement when they turn 55 for life?

[@Itsme-mx5tl]

Stop paying politicians!

[@ifbfmto9338]

We need a drastic reduction in government spending

[@saltywater5097]

Cut all social welfare programs, that's over 1 trillion per year right there. The exception being veterans of course.

[@fastfoodyums]

Let’s start with the military and excessive spending on militarization police!!! About time conservatives woke up and saw the spending issues

[@matsab7930]

Meanwhile the overwhelming majority of taxpayer dollars are spent on ‘defense’. You don’t need a reduction in government spending, you need competent politicians who know how to spend money in the most efficient manner. Social security is great when it is implemented well; take a look at Nordic countries, some of the most free and happy countries in the world. It’s just that in the US you have so many idiots in power it’s hard to get anything useful done despite all the money government has.

[@JustTayo]

"It's federal grants and not taxpayers money" Jesus

[@onajet1]

SO MUCH BULL !!! Thanks for showing this

[@michaelweston7748]

They should have been thanking the children for those "FREE" Bicycle Helmets, that's who will have to pay for them!

[@floridaman6643]

“If you look here there’s a lot of people who don’t have a lot of money” everyone in that line looks like they haven’t step foot in a Walmart in years....

[@daveThbfusion]

The manufacturer donated the " free" helmets,(and then takes the tax break on the full market price, because they hold the receipts) The grant money (earmarked tax dollars) spent on , filet mignon, hookers, cigarettes, booze and vacation homes.

[@exodusfivesixfivesix8050]

@John Stossel these videos are great! I hope more people can see this and wake up!

[@mokhan7623]

Barry, total waste of space and time! Thomas Sowell, a renowned black academic and economist noted he was the worst president in living memory!

[@A.I.rchist]

Ok fine, I'll cough up some money for the laundry robot.

[@MrOmaro7]

Well I dunno, I actually kind of think the laundry folding robot is a good investment

[@RandySRT]

Just get yourself a magic coffee table. That will solve all of your problems. Just look up ‘magic coffee table’ on KZbin. Your welcome

[@caster863]

I wouldn't be surprised if the government funds a circus.

[@toughmanrandysavage3077]

I am 100% in favor of the shrimp treadmills.

[@jaridkeen123]

We spend money on stupid shit

[@dm8867]

Vote them all out no more life time benefits for politicians

[@nygiants61394]

The pissed off lady trying to justify getting the helmet by denying that tax payers payed for it😂

[@williamgallaher1377]

Corrupt crooks.

[@cameronphenix2096]

"Its not a lot of money" She's right! It's not really a lot of money. But just like the millennial who buys avocado toast and a Frappuccino every morning, it sure does add up to a lot of money by the end of the year.

[@johnmichael642]

wow this dude has all the sudden become my favorite reporter

[@Justin_Joy]

Ok i know that the government wastes a lot of money on useless things but the shrimp one is something im genuinely willing to spend my own money funding.

[@FKAAYA]

Stossel is honest, I like that.

[@scottmckay9535]

The National Money Hole is in Washington, D.C.

[@wyattlogan3985]

Everybody say thanks to Obama for putting us an additional 9 trillion dollars in the hole

[@user-tn1wo4md4n]

Thanks Obama

[@matsab7930]

But like... didn’t he reduce national debt???? Honestly, trump could take a massive shit on the oval table and you’d still be going round telling about how Obama did this or that. He hasn’t been president for years and guess what, your country has gone down the shitter since he left office.

[@wojciech91]

I like this man, cuts right through the bullshit to the truth.

[@patriciawallace511]

SICK, really sick when our country is full of need .

[@christeal1522]

Some of this isn't waste... Some of it is. government investment in research has been done for ages...hell the "discovery" if the new world was paid for government "waste"

[@kesayo]

Chris Teal everything the government does, a private business can do better because they are held accountable for their spending or they will go out of business. The government is never held accountable because they can't go out of business no matter how much money they waste. And people don't vote for the person who is the most competent and careful with spending. They vote for people who promise to spend money on them. So voting is not a way of holding politicians accountable. It's simply a way for people to get taxpayer money diverted to them instead of other people, regardless of whether it's an effective use of the money.

[@MikhaelAhava]

In some cases yes. Anyways a famous example is the Wright Brothers’ first plane back in 1903. The US government failed to just people with a small shop with bikes and a lot of ingenuity to finish such a feat.

[@dustincasey1000]

How about the government supplying needles to heroin heads

[@ImranZakhaev9]

Ah yes, AIDS epidemics sure are great for the community, aren't they?

[@fastfoodyums]

I’m a big fan of public health measures that save us millions and billions in the long term, yes. I would rather pay for a bundle of 100 needles that costs taxpayers $5 than a 30 count of HIV medication every month at $3000 for a patient on subsidized healthcare. Same with smoking. Or would you rather the government never took action against tobacco companies representing their products as safe? Would you rather have them not spend millions to find the companies lied, causing what is now a $3,000,000,000 burden on the healthcare system by smoking every year as the leading cause of preventable death

[@killed2deth736]

John stossel is a national treasure.

[@WeAreWafc]

We need to cut every government budget and start reducing the deficit

[@switchbladerich]

Guams a US territory. I don't know why they edited it to make it look like we were paying for a foreign nation to remove tree snakes.

[@kingramass443]

Because Guam isn’t as significant to our tax revenue as opposed to the United States population?

[@lepewthepew8408]

@@kingramass443 i dont know man if i lived in guam i wouldnt want to have to deal with tree snakes

[@kingramass443]

@@lepewthepew8408 So a majority of the people paying for the snakes removal are not affected by it, and given the current economical atmosphere of the United States, don't you think that money could be better directed? Are the Guamanian people reliant on our government to remove the snakes? If so, then why are they not able to remove them themselves, albeit being one of the poorer U.S. territories given their GDP per capita. It may have stimulated the economy by providing jobs, but to what extent are the tax payers responsible for the United States mingling of foreign affairs? We have to fix the problems back at home before we can help to fix other's problems, something the government seems to ignore in George Washington's Farewell Address.

[@lepewthepew8408]

@@kingramass443 the snakes have devastated the local wildlife population. Plus the snakes have caused many problems for the military base there mostly electrical. And you know how much a money hole the military is. Take any job and multiply 10x.

[@JoHnSapla7LordSapla9]

@@kingramass443 its more like, if you dont adress the snake problem, Guam will become even more dependent on the other states, so you will end up giving even more money.

[@almisami]

Actually the immune system study could lead to useful insights and the tree snakes in Guam really need to be controlled. Blowing up the beaver dams is not as effective as paying trappers for beaver pelts, though.

[@dondemitri3760]

I dont think its our place to control whats happening in Guam

[@dondemitri3760]

@@printerstapler7296 is it? well frick, color me educated indeed. Then maybe I withdraw a bit of my statement

[@standingfirm1]

Thanks for your videos they are great and very informative

[@Dano-uf8ys]

How can you tell when a politician is lying, you already know the answer.

[@magicmanscott40k]

Wow even when money hits his face he doesn't blink. I don't he blinked the whole episode. I don't have a mustache and I blink. Must be the stache jk

[@Kr0nicDragon]

There is totally an actual money hole, it’s technically called a bank

[@xxxCrackerJack501xxx]

I *know* I could blow up a beaver dam for _significantly_ less money than that. The constant overspending is sickening.

[@briancallahan6894]

This is a big problem! That we need to fix!

[@GlenCychosz]

Brown tree snakes on Guam are a real problem.

[@theMightyWhytey]

Glen Cychosz I honestly don't know about brown tree snakes, but beavers are a real problem.

[@StarWarsomania]

Glen Cychosz They actually are. They are an invasive species wrecking havoc on the ecosystem. And driving species to extinction.

[@GlenCychosz]

I was on Guam when a brown tree snake caused a black out by shorting out the power lines.

[@Firefighter_303]

God-tier Basement Dweller learned helplessness

[@GlenCychosz]

I cant believe the the people in flooded areas in Texas don't fend for there self's instead of depending on the govt? Helplessness See how stupid that sounds.

[@sezrekahneldar4058]

Hey, we'll give you free stuff! (After we've taken money from you and bought that stuff from our buddies.)

[@ELEVOPR]

This is why we need to Defund the Government. It's time for a new System.

[@JesseH]

Hard to believe it's been two years ago since you shared this.