t it had a waiting list of 25,000 struggling families in need of housing assistance. The PHA also funded more than $25 million on building repair contracts. Much of this money went for repairs on houses of friends and relatives of PHA employees. (Utt, Report No.1. 1)HUD has even more money problems. In 1995 it sponsored a “training session” for 260 public housing tenants and HUD employees. Of course, the “training session” was located at the Casino Hotel and Sands Beach Resort in San Juan, Puerto Rico. HUD ended up spending $325,000 on the “training session” and it was a later found to be a failure by the HUD Inspector General. (Feulner 2)The FAA recently had a new air traffic control system installed at 16 airports and will be installed in 31 more. This cost taxpayers around $373 million, but the new system has suffered frequent shutdowns and failures. It has caused problems at least once a week at Washington’s National Airport. (Feulner 2)The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) subsidizes hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to foreign culture and art. It gave $40,000 to Mexican folk dancers at the Floricanto Dance Theater, Academia de Danza y Folklore Mexicano, Raices de Mexico, and Los Lupenos de San Jose. The NEA also thinks Japanese folk dancing needs some $10,000, especially the Tokunagu Dance Ko and the Jo Ha Kyu Performance Group. $20,000 was given to a Brazilian dance group, the Capoeira Foundation. (Utt, Report No. 2. 3)The NEA also pays money to dance cultures of undefined ethnicity, such as the Najwa Dance Corps, Sharir Dance Company, and Zivili Kolo Ensemble. These are just a few of the dozens of other dance groups that receive funding from the NEA. Just imagine the thousands that must go to other foreign arts. (Utt, Report No. 2. 3)Over the years the government has tried to regulate technology through its antitrust divisions. It has been doing this for ...
