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Nothing beats the government on missing and wasted items.

CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=74150

"In response to this inquiry, the CDC produced some records and information that raise troubling issues about its property management," the letter states. According to the letter, sent to HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson, as of Feb. 22, the agency had listed 5,547 items -- including computers and scientific equipment -- worth $22 million, as "missing property," compared with 648 items, worth $1.6 million, listed as missing in February 1994.

..................... Sen. Coburn Report
Also on Tuesday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Financial Management Subcommittee discussed a report criticizing CDC's use of taxpayer dollars. The report cited, among other expenses, $200,000 spent on an employee fitness center and $1.7 million campaign aimed at portraying accurate medical information in television and films. Coburn said the agency "has wasted and continues to waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, but keeps asking taxpayers for more" (Kelley, USA Today, 6/13).