Thursday, August 5, 2010

Tax Dollars Used to Lobby For More Tax Dollars

It is nice to know our money is so well spent...

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Say-Nope-To-SYEP-99826639.html

"On Monday, District residents’ tax dollars went to pay Summer Youth Employment Program participants to attend a Council oversight session at which they lobbied for more funding for the program.

It’s just the latest outrage surrounding one of D.C.’s best-intentioned and worst-run programs.

SYEP, which hires about 20,000 D.C. youth for various minimum wage summer jobs, was budgeted at $22.7 million. But it’s already $11.5 million over budget -- an overrun of 50 percent.
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