In the last years of the Clinton administration, 26,000 very special Americans received $8.5 million in food stamps. The reason that these Americans were special is that they were dead at the time the food stamps arrived. During that same period of time, the

1998 junket to North Africa, my staff and I followed the spending trail to Hillary’s doorstep. But then we were stopped cold. You see, according to a federal law called the Presidential Records Act, occupants of the White House do not have to turn over any documents, including expenses, for five years after they leave Pennsylvania Avenue. What a scam! Hillary Clinton’s office told my investigators to “fly off.” They laughed in our faces as they quoted the Records Act. But here is what I was able to ascertain with the help of GAO reports and analysis by the National Taxpayers Union. In the eight years they spent in the White House, Mr. And Mrs. Clinton spent close to; take a breath, $525 million of taxpayer money for their travels. This is by far the most money ever spent by a president and First Lady in that area. And what do we the people get for all that travel? Well, you can make that call. And what did Bill Clinton get? In his first five months out of office he visited nearly two dozen countries and picked up approximately $5 million in speaking fees (O’Reilly 115).

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was right and wrong. All Americans should pay their fair share, and some fat cats were avoiding taxes in the Roaring Twenties. The need for financial supervision at the federal level was obvious, and Roosevelt kicked it in, becoming a champion of the working class in the process. And even today some wealthy Americans continue to exploit our capitalist system. But no system is perfect and the United States is not Sweden. America was set up so that individuals could prosper and take it to the capitalistic limit. If that system is no longer valid, we should hold a national debate and vote on it (Robertson 23).

So the question is, who is keeping score? Who is watching or tax dollars, and who is making sure that federally funded programs actually work? Are you ready? Nobody is.

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