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>> reporter: due to the sequester, small airports across the country are being forced to close their air traffic control towers because of budget cuts. >> civilian workers are losing more than 1/40th of their pay. >> head starts like this in washington county will be feeling the effects of this sequestration after they have to cut 5%, $150,000 from their 2012 fiscal year budget. >> there will not only be a loss in jobs, loss in air traffic. officials say that could lead to more job loss here. >> more federal employees will get more furlough notices this week because of sequestration. >> worker...

Wasted. >> reporter: it could be more, we may never know. the 186 page report is certain of one thing, the bush administration threw taxpayer money at iraq missed a critical component, a plan. >> this failure of planning and having a plan to execute these contracts and to provide accountability for the people who were in charge of this, totally lacking. >> reporter: the result, among many other things, u.s. taxpayers shelled out $80 for a pvc elbow pipe you can buy at home depot for $1.40. the first american administrators hired a comptroller, robert stein, gave him more than $58 million in ca...

$1.40 a meal. booker is the latest politician to stand in solidarity with welfare families. let's meet another man who tried the same thing, phoenix mayor. what was it like to live on just $4 a day for meals? >> well, in phoenix the food stamp amount is $29 per week. and to live off of that and still try to live a healthy lifestyle with healthy meals is incredibly difficult. i had to skip a bunch of meals. ate a lot of ramin and beans and rice and lost a few pounds. it was tough. >> a record 47 million americans use food stamps in august. that cost nearly $72 billion. so when you hear about th...

Starting on tuesday. that's about $1.40 per meal. the average is about $133 in new jersey. now, as mayor, booker makes more than $13,000 a month. he's honoring a challenge he made to a twitter follower earlier this month. the woman claims to accept but not sure about the timing, though. bo obama in a new white house christmas video. the first dog inspects the white house christmas tree decorations and even stumbles upon a bo look-alike. there staring at that bo with lights hanging out of his mouth. the white house is expecting about 90,000 christmas visitors this year. on the menu at the w...

Representative john mica, when everybody else is on vacation, in congress, he decided to stick it out, and went to mcdonald's and grabbed a hamburger and there and pick up a $1.50 hamburger and the one you pay on the amtrak train is ridiculous. >> ten years, food service, everybody time somebody has a hamburger on the amtrak train it costs the taxpayer $6.65 and a drink for $2, cost the taxpayers, $1.40. these people, make a profit, something wrong in washington... >> alisyn: not a winning business model and the irony is, there is not lack of demand from consumers. that cafe car is like 12 peo...