The Top 10 Examples of Government Waste

Shocking, even for someone as cynical of big government as myself. If you thought the Congressional steroid hearings were a waste of time, buckle your safety belts for this:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1840.cfm

On this day

12 years ago, over 80 people were massacred in cold blood by the BATF and the FBI. Two years later, two individuals, having seen that no justice was being done, decided to take matters into their own hands, and avenge the dead of Mt Carmel on the agencies that murdered them. So they murdered 168 more people, most of whom did not work for either agency, some of whom did not even work for the USA government at all.

President Clinton and the forces of hatred on the left jumped at the opportunity to launch a witch-hunt against the right, claiming that this crime was somehow connected to the patriot movement, but it turned out that McVeigh had attended one meeting of the Michigan Militia and been kicked out, while he spent three years in the armed forces and was discharged with honour. So much for that.

In any case, the two individuals responsible for the OKC massacre have been apprehended, tried, convicted, and punished. Meanwhile, the butchers of Waco, who acted in the name and with the authority of the people of the USA, remain free.

UPDATE: Gary McGath blogs about this in more detail.