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Tonight. the house of representatives approved a bill with $61 billion in cuts and the white house is vowing to veto it. lawmakers could save billions by not throwing taxpayers dollar down the drown after a report on wasteful spending. it comes from the nonpartisan gao with a list of overlapping federal agencies and how much they are costing all of us. including, 18 programs to help feed the needy at $62 billion a year. 47 job training programs, another $18 billion a year. and 82 different teach...

Highlight and him mate some of the duplication could be very real. when youve got 47 job training programs costing $18 billion a year through nine different agencies, and we havent done anything about it, and the factor is we dont know if our job raining is doing any good because theres no metrics on it, if you have 80 programs -- let me read you a couple. 173 tax depeexpenditures tha. how much of it are we duplicating for the same thing some theres programs like $58 billion on 100 separate prog...

And thats across seven different agencies. the fact that were teaching that and we cant even practice the thing that were trying to teach through government plans? its ludicrous. >> and the list goes on and on. we have $177 billion in contracts granted this iraq since 2002. tens of billions. the more you read, the more disgusted youre capable of making yourself. am i wrong to think that before we start cutting this program or that program that theres a step before that, that is a thorough review...

Through job training programs, those kinds of things, and then in places like cleveland, ohio and that would hit hard in cleveland, ohio. >> harris: and winter yet to be over. a minor warm-up this week. adam shapiro from the fox business network. an update from a story we first told you about last night on fox report, were now hearing from people who came face-to-face with this man, maxim gellman, accused of going on a 28-hour deadly stabbing rampage throughout new york city and police are sayin...

Rather than job training, but to pay for a lunch at hooters, valet parking at the cheesecake factory, cupcakes and drink holders as well. >> no oversight for these job training programs since 2004 so its been hey, lets go out for lunch and lets go to the casino. lets buy some golf shirts. lets go get a video gaming system and lets decide then after playing a few games of madden what other programs we might, what other jobs we might train people not to have. >> there was no oversight for some of ...

Jobs. senator tom coburn from oklahoma, hooters, and casinos it is creating jobs. >>guest: those are two extraordinary examples show you how we are not looking how we are spending americas taxpayers money and the gao says we do not know how effective our job training programs are and we spend $18 billion and we have 47 programs, nine federal agencies and it is the absolute height of stupidity not to look at it and have one or two bureaucracies. >>neil: they gather at places or they send their pe...

Would leave in place current and far higher spending levels, 24% higher, in fact. not including the $8 00 billion stimulus. that is much different from what the republicans are proposing. >> we said all along what we aim to do bring discretionary levels down to prebail-out, prestimulus levels. >> republicans wont know until they get visual number from the congressional budget office how much they would have to cut to get to 2008 levels which brought question from democrats. whether it doesnt hav...

Building trucks, in charlotte, north carolina, richard barns is unemployed. >> its tough. i mean, we worry day-to-day about how we are going to make our bills. >> reporter: richard says he was laid off one year ago when production at the plant shifted to mexico. now, at age 49, hes planning for a new career. studying heavy equipment and truck repair. >> when you are looking things up -- >> reporter: at central piedmont community college, more than half a million dollars in federal stimulus money...

Working at the same company building trucks, in charlotte, north carolina, richard barns is unemployed. >> its tough. i mean, we worry day-to-day about how we are going to make our bills. >> reporter: richard says he was laid off one year ago when production at the plant shifted to mexico. now, at age 49, hes planning for a new career. studying heavy equipment and truck repair. >> when you are looking things up -- >> reporter: at central piedmont community college, more than half a million dolla...

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