The government racket Book

	Introduction	1
Part 1	New Washington Waste	1
1	Accounting: Is There a Bookkeeper in the House?	9
2	Baby-Sitters, Washington Style: "But I Don't Need Welfare!"	16
3	Budget: How to Steal $6 Trillion from Social Security and Call It a "Surplus"	19
4	Computers: Wanted: Teenage Hackers	31
5	Conventions, Presidential: They're Partying on Our Nickel	38
6	Corporate Welfare: You Mean I'm Subsidizing Intel?	41
7	Demonstration Projects: Highways to Pork Heaven	49
8	Earned Income Tax Credit (Eitc): Are You Getting Your Free Money from Uncle Sam?	57
9	Federal Follies: More Aggravating Than Entertaining	65
10	Federal Palaces: $13 Million Just for the Architect?	72
11	Golf: Putts Instead of Planes	78
12	Horses: Millions for Belgian Steaks	81
13	International Enterprise Funds: Want to Buy a Mutual Fund--in Bulgaria?	84
14	Junkets, Military Style: Fly Me to the Moon	89
15	Kickbacks, Bribes, Con Jobs, and Simple Fraud: Uncle Sucker Gets Ripped Off, Inside and Out	93
16	Loans: The Government Bank: Everyone's Welcome	106
17	Mass Transit: Brother, Can You Spare Train Fare?	110
18	Merchant Marine: What Happened to Old Glory at Sea?	115
19	Metric System: How Many Millimeters Long Is Your Foot?	121
20	National Parks: Purple Mountain Majesty and Red Ink	125
21	Native Americans: Gambling Casinos: Revenge on the Palefaces	129
22	Outhouses: Relief Is Just a Fortune Away	135
23	Peanuts: Want to Buy Some Bootleg Nuts?	137
24	Pork: $15 Billion a Year to Study Why Politicians Are Compulsive Spenders	141
25	Quakes, Hurricanes, Fema, and Other Disasters: We Insure Everything	155
26	Radio Ads: Are We Paying to Pollute the Airwaves?	160
27	Recording Studios: High Tech--in Your Face	163
28	Small-Business Criminals: Holding Up Uncle Sam	167
29	SSI--Supplemental Security Income: A Good Idea Too Often Gone Bad	171
30	Statistical Services: They've Got Our Number--Seventy-three Times	181
31	Telephones: Just Charge It to Uncle Sam	185
32	Universal Service Fund: Reach Out and Touch Someone--Like Harrison Ford	190
33	Volunteers (Americorps): In Washington They Get Paid	193
34	Welfare: It's Bigger Than You Think	197
35	Youth At Risk: Have I Got a Teen Program for You!	204
36	Zooming National Debt: It Still Goes Only One Way--Up	208
Part 2	Review and Deja VU: Defeats and Victories in the Fight Against Waste
	Office of Former Speakers	216
	Government Airplanes, Nonmilitary	217
	Decorating for the Bureaucracy	219
	Helium	221
	Congressional LSOs	222
	Mining Law of 1872	223
	Wool and Mohair	226
	Rural Utilities Services	227
	Essential Air	229
	Federal Employees	231
	Congressional Retirement	235
	Auctioning Off the Airwaves	237
	Newsletters	238
	Forest Service--More Corporate Welfare	240
	Congressional Perks	242
Part 3	Blueprint for the Twenty-First Century: How to Redesign the Government and Save a Fortune in the Process
	The Cabinet	254
	The Oversized Little Cabinet	260
	Programs That Should Be Eliminated	261
	Antisubsidy Act	262
	Duplication and Overlap	262
	Congress	264
	Presidential Primaries	268
	Taxes: Eliminate the Internal Revenue Service	272
	Initiative and Referendum	274
	Establish an Independent Inspector General of the United States	277
Appendix	An Inventory of Waste: What's the Total?	281
	Index	285