Billions of Dollars Wasted By House GOP

[UCmeNdc]

How much have the Republicans cost the taxpayer, directly and in terms of hindered economic potential, since they took over the House in 2010?

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GRAND TOTAL: $25,022,300,000

Its amazing that a fiscally conservative party has contrived to spend or waste this much money. Would anyone seriously suggest most of it had been well spent? This is without factoring the economic impact of 1.6 million jobs threatened by the Sequester. We could even look further, and factor in the amount forfeited by Republican run states that have rejected the medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act

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Republicans have squandered money on hubristic, base-rousing engagements and re-investigations, and forfeited money available for a wholly legitimate and beneficial expansion of health coverage for low-income families. Sadly, it’s not them who are left counting the costs.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/01/1326246/-Adding-up-the-billions-wasted-by-the-House-Republicans

[Jamaal510]

1. Ironically,

the case can be made that Democratic administrations (and progressives in general) do a better job at being "conservative" than many elected self-proclaimed conservatives. Less taxpayer money is spent and wasted under the typical Democrat versus the typical Republican (see Jerry Brown's surplus and how much the deficit lowered under Obama), more jobs are created, and there are fewer wars we get involved in. It never ceases to amaze me how their party has still managed to keep that reputation for being "fiscally conservative", despite the evidence to the contrary. It goes back to Robert Reich's idea about how the GOP should be referred to as the "Regressive Party" instead of conservative. They don't conserve; they just want the country to adopt an outdated agenda.