SEN. TOM COBURN (R-OK)
Member
Elected to the Senate in 2004, Sen. Coburn is a member of the committees on Judiciary, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Intelligence, Indian Affairs, and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Before his tenure in the Senate, Sen. Coburn served in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001.
Sen. Coburn is probably best known for his opposition to pork barrel spending. In 2005, he tried to block $453 million for two bridges in Alaska, including the infamous “bridge to nowhere.” Sen. Coburn’s attempt failed overwhelmingly. A Senate committee recently approved a Coburn-sponsored bill calling for a database tracking all earmark requests made by lawmakers.
In May, Sen. Coburn wrote to the two chairs of the fiscal commission in favor of a freeze in the Pentagon’s “base” budget (funding for things other than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) over the next two fiscal years.
Sen. Coburn, an obstetrician, has been dubbed “The Senate’s Dr. No.” The senator has used – some say abused – the power of a single senator to hold up legislation he or she does not favor. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has said of Coburn’s tactics: l think it’s a way an individual tries to exacerbate their power, and it’s really unfortunate.” A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) added: “No wonder it’s so hard to get things done when a handful of junior members insist on a their-way-or-the-highway approach to legislating.”
With that kind of endorsement from Feinstein and Reid, what’s not to like about this guy?
Get The Fraud Out http://bit.ly/9BHPU5
most all Americans overlook the #1 costliest problem,
both financially, and morally, in the Federal government.
That problem is FRAUD.
FRAUD COSTS ALL AMERICANS MORE THAN BOTH WARS AND THEN SOME,
AND THAT IS JUST IN OUR ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS.
THE AMOUNT OF FRAUD IN AMERICA IS ASTRONOMICAL.
AND THERE ISN’T MORE FRAUD ANYWHERE THAN IN OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
AND HERE IS WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD:
THE ROOT OF ALL FRAUD IN AMERICA IS IN OUR ENTITLEMENTS .
THE VERY ENTITLEMENTS THAT CONGRESS AND EVERYONE ELSE IS SO CONCERNED ABOUT.
WELL, I SAY IT’S ABOUT HIGH-TIME THAT SOMEONE DID SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM.
AS THE COST OF ENTITLEMENTS, ALONE, WILL VERY, VERY, SOON CONSUME ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT REVENUES.
YES YOU HEARD IT RIGHT, ALL OF THE GOVERNMENT REVENUES.
THE FRAUD IN ENTITLEMENTS IS OUTRAGEOUS, AND STOPPING IT IS SO EASY
Entitlement Spending
CBO http://bit.ly/9lB1xt
SocialSecurity|Medic are|Medicaid (in trillions)
………….SS….M care..Mcaid..Total.. …Increase/yr.
FY1996 .314 + .281 + .xxx = 0.595
FY1997 .358 + .305 + .xxx = 0.663……..0.068
FY1998 .372 + .314 + .xxx = 0.686……..0.023
FY1999 .383 + .211 + .108 = 0.702 …….0.016
FY2000 .402 + .218 + .118 = 0.738……..0.035
FY2001 .426 + .241 + .130 = 0.797……..0.059
FY2002 .448 + .256 + .148 = 0.852……..0.055
FY2003 .467 + .277 + .161 = 0.905……..0.053
FY2004 .488 + .300 + .176 = 0.964……..0.059
FY2005 .514 + .335 + .182 = 1.031……..0.067
FY2006 .548 + .378 + .181 = 1.107……..0.076
FY2007 .577 + .374 + .191 = 1.142……..0.035
FY2008 .607 + .389 + .202 = 1.198……..0.056
FY2009 .659 + .428 + .251 = 1.338……..0.140
FY2010 .xxx + .xxx + .xxx = x.xxx……..0.xxx
http://bit.ly/9lB1xt
Entitlement spending, alone, for SS, Medicare, and Medicaid,
in 2011, will approach $2.0 trillion Dollars
2010 TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUES = $2.1 Trillion Dollars
BUT WAIT, PLEASE WAIT…DON’T ALLOW THE GOVERNMENT TO FIX IT
ALL THEY”LL DO IS THROW A LITTLE DUCT TAPE ON IT, WRAP SOME BARBED WIRE AROUND IT, AT A COST OF A FEW HUNDRED MILLION.
TO BE DONE RIGHT, WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IS,
AND I KNOW THE RIGHT PERSON TO LEAD THIS DEVELOPMENT
DESIGN A TOP-DOWN DATABASE WITH ALL ENTITLEMENT RECIPIENTS BIO-ID’d,
FINGERPRINTS ARE AN INEXPENSIVE TECHNOLOGY, EASILY ADAPTED
WE CAN EVEN CATCH THE PAST CRIMINALS
FRAUD IN ENTITLEMENTS WILL BE ELIMINATED
IT’S 100′S OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER YEAR SAVED SO EASILY
AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOREVER
OF COURSE THIS DATABASE WOULD INCLUDE ALL ENTITLEMENTS RECIPIENTS ANYWHERE IN OUR UNITED STATES
BUT THE CITIZENS OF OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY WILL HAVE TO BE WILLING TO FIGHT TO FORCE CONGRESS TO DO IT
BECAUSE THEY AREN’T GOING TO DO IT WILLINGLY.
and besides, before the entitlement problem could be fixed PROPERLY
the problem must be defined, and you can’t define the entitlement problem until you
GET THE FRAUD OUT so you can see the problem clearly.