Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of United States Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for August 2018:
Civil Asset Forfeiture: A Guide to Policing For Profit.
USA Today: Prisoners nationwide go on strike to protest ‘modern-day slavery’
ALABAMA: Warrior police officer arrested for 2nd time in 2 years
Retired Drug Task Force cop turns out to be a drug dealer
Sanitation and gas tax dominates
ARIZONA: Video update of National Guard support ops for U.S. Customs and Boarder Protection (Border Patrol) at Port of Nogales, Operation Guardian Support:
CALIFORNIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 1-thousand-493 NASSCO jobs (according to official WARN) in San Diego, by the end of September, supposedly due to an accident involving a USN ship and a new floating dry dock! Electronic voting software company Everyone Counts eliminating 18 jobs in La Jolla. Texas based prison contractor ISI Detention Contracting Group suddenly halted ops in Orange, 27 jobs suddenly gone.
Border Patrol cop arrested for ‘strangling’ traveler
Whittier police officer arrested for sexually assaulting 2 minors
Politician and his wife arrested for illegal use of campaign money
California spends more than half its yearly taxpayer funded fire budget in one month!
COLORADO: Fort Collins expects slowing tax revenues, despite legalized ganja
FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded GCR eliminating 35 jobs at Cape Canaveral, in September. Taxpayer funded Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky eliminating 5-hundred jobs, in Jupiter, by the end of December!
Police officer arrested, accused of breaking prisoner’s leg
Prison guard arrested for drugs
Yes, Rick Scott did cut $700 million from Florida’s water management
GEORGIA: congressional candidate arrested for murder
congressional candidate sentenced to six months in jail
GUAM: New Island Sustainability Community Advisory Board formed
IDAHO: Taxpayer funded software problem closes driver’s license offices, hinders police
FBI arrests ten people for selling fake cellphones
One Third of Middleton police department serves in Idaho Army National Guard
Idaho prisons mulling 20 percent taxpayer funded budget boost
Canyon County blames massive budget increase on prison overcrowding
South Idaho deputy’s shooting of family dog investigated
Idaho schools chief’s new security plan may cause chaos
State leaders report a surprise $100-million increase in tax collections!
State government sells-off 51 Priest Lake properties for $26-million
Kootenai County wants to jack-up property taxes
Idaho County wants to jack-up property taxes
City of Meridian reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes
Twin Falls reduces budget yet jacks-up property taxes
Idaho Falls police demand more taxpayer funding
Boise Fire Department ‘loses’ $17-million in taxpayer funding!
Lewiston Airport sees increase in operating costs, yet suffers 60% decrease in flights
Problems getting worse for the now taxpayer funded Portneuf Wellness Complex (I must point out this ‘wellness complex’ was originally built without Bannock County taxpayer approval as it was touted as being funded with donations)
Bannock County official placed on paid administrative leave
Pocatello’s massive taxpayer burdening Northgate interchange project delayed until at least next summer
Pocatello’s community access channel will shut down
Zimbabwe man who lived in Pocatello for 15 years to be deported
Troubled University of Idaho reports big drop in funding for athletic programs
College of Idaho warns of budget cuts and layoffs due to crashing enrollments and funding
ILLINOIS: Politician’s campaign staffer arrested for attacking political opponents
INDIANA: Arrest caught on video ends with cop being fired
LOUISIANA: Saint Tammany Parish laying off 21 people, as part of an earlier warning that as many as 40 Parish employees would lose their jobs due to local sales tax collections crashing by millions of U.S. dollars.
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Oak Grove cop charged with rape
Shreveport police officer arrested
MARYLAND: Baltimore cop resigns after ‘disturbing’ video
MICHIGAN: County cop arrested for being drunk and fighting with city cops
MISSISSIPPI: 12th Mississippi prisoner Dies in August
MISSOURI: Ferguson officer fired for stalking, assault
NEVADA: 911 dispatcher arrested
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Top Democrat arrested for domestic violence
NEW JERSEY: Mail-order cocaine and a top cop’s arrest spark new calls to kill an entire police department!
NEW MEXICO: Oil boom drives tax revenues to record high
NEW YORK: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 31 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Fort Drum, by the end of October, officially due to loss of contract.
Cop arrested for grabbing women
NORTH CAROLINA: Dozens of people arrested in one county for ‘illegal voting’!
congressional candidate arrested on stalking charges
OHIO: Cop arrested, charged with drug trafficking
Female corrections officer arrested
OKLAHOMA: taxpayer funded Veterans Center doctor arrested for attacking a taxpayer funded cop
Cop arrested, accused of choking son
PENNSYLVANIA: Prison guard arrested for drug smuggling
SOUTH CAROLINA: Cop charged with killing his wife
TENNESSEE: Lack of tax revenues threaten police departments
County promises no tax increases or budget cuts, in return for selling taxpayer owned hospital
TEXAS: Entire police force turns out to be criminal gang as Series of indictments nearly wipes out Llano Police Department
Female cop arrested twice in 3 weeks
police officer found guilty of murder
Cop arrested Just 10 Days After Being Sworn-In
Cop spending just 15 years in prison for killing high school student
Mansfield mayor demands tax relief for home owners
VIRGINIA: Taxpayer funded General Dynamics eliminating 101 CSRA InfoTech(IT)-national security jobs in Chesapeake, by the end of September, as a result of taking over taxpayer funded CSRA this year!
Police Officer Arrested in Death of Baby Daughter
WASHINGTON: eighth prisoner to die in Spokane County custody
cop arrested again in domestic violence case
Spokane police officer pleads guilty
police sergeant sentenced to 7-years in prison for sexually assaulting another cop!
Washington DC: CIA officer faces arrest
Former head of CDC (and Obama lackey) Tom Frieden arrested
Congressmen arrested for Insider Trading
How many of Donald Trump’s advisers have been convicted?
Three Men Arrested for Impersonating Senate Staff
Trump gives $717 billion taxpayer funded military bill a green light
Trump cancels pay raises for federal employees
Senate increases taxpayer spending on the National Institutes of Health to $39-billion!
Federal budget deficit increases 79%
WYOMING: Greybull police officer arrested on federal charge
Drugs, the American Way, August 2018: ‘SEVEN DAYS OF HELL’ ‘1.5 MILLION LETHAL DOSES’
Dumbing Down the U.S.A., August 2018: BARRICADES, ACTIVE SHOOTERS & MAGA
ObamaCare-ACA death spiral, August 2018: “SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES”
U.S. government shenanigans, July 2018: TAXES & NEW LAWS PROVE IT’S NO LAND OF THE FREE!