[mburbank]

Vinth: First, let me congratulate you on for ONCE sourcing something.

It was by far the most effort I've seen you put into anything.

They're both secondary sources and in neither case do they reference the alleged primary source, but still, I applaud your effort and I want to encourage it.

The first article is reporting by stenography, a story about a press release. The claims in it may well be true and certainly have basis in fact but the article you site doesn't make the effort to tie the charges to speciffic legislation, nor does it do any fact checking. It neither questions or corroborates the claims, merely copies them.

The second is a friggin' transcript of a Bill Oreilly rant.

But I'm glad you acatually bestirred yourself, and I concede you this point. Government wastes money.