Since the subject is in general wasted tax dollars I am on topic. Is it Bush's fault? I don't know who made the decision and I imagine some of it occurred on Obama's watch as well. Don't know who to blame specifically. It's not about blame anyway. The point is so many worry about piddly crap when the big crimes go on without much comment.

Do not delude yourself even for one moment that you have anything whatsoever to say about what I post or not. I'm reasonably certain I don't need your permission to speak out.

Remember right after the Travon Martin shooting, the prosecutors had no plans to file any charges UNTIL Obama stuck his nose in and literally demanded that charges be brought ?



Zimmerman Trial Costs Public $902,000
August 22, 2013 by UPI - United Press International, Inc.
SANFORD, Fla., (UPI) — The five-week trial of George Zimmerman that ended in his acquittal in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin cost the public $902,000, officials said.
Zimmerman, who was charged with murder in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin, 17, in Sanford, began June 10 and a six-member jury returned the not guilty verdict on July 13.
The biggest cost associated with the trial was paid to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, which spent $425,000 providing security, planning and logistics during the trial, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Wednesday. The second biggest was the $183,000 the city of Sanford spent on police overtime.
Sanford police decided to up security to curb potential violent protests as well as protect Zimmerman, who had received death threats
Juror costs also were high. The Clerk of Courts Maryanne Morse spent $34,600 during the jury’s 22-day sequestration, during which the six members of the jury lived in a hotel and were isolated from their families and media reports.
The trial costs are based, in part, on estimates and do not include criminal investigation or pretrial costs, such as the $80,000 the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney’s Office paid to have Special Prosecutor Angela Corey work on the case.
Nor did the trial costs include what Zimmerman and his law

My suggestion would be; Congress deduct $1,000,000 from Obama's "pension" and send it to Sanford, Florida to covewr the un-needed expenses.

Little infraction? This was your 3rd post in these forums since you joined and the 1st post on this thread. Here it is: "What a hateful, spiteful rant. Re-read the text and take away all of the unsupported opinions and lurid descriptions, what do we have? Nothing really. Just another right wing blow hard with big opinions and short of facts or reasoned analysis. When you understand the difference between insult and argument, you may have something worth listening to. Until then, you are not influencing anyone. Go ahead and flame me since insult is all you seem to have. To paraphrase Faulkner and Shakespeare, you are simply full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." And you think that was a substantive reply? Let me say again. You invite nothing but venom. Combat, rebellion. I will reaffirm my original name calling to you because you are what I said you are. Overly self impressed POS. I ask again. Just WITF do you think you are. To which I might add besides a hypocrite. I do not think you are really new here but the reincarnation of another troll we managed to rid ourselves of.

BS... Talk is cheap and Obama is full of cheap talk, just as he said that there was a red line in Syria, that seems to have disappeared, not that I want to see us engage, he should have just kept his big mouth shut if he had no real intention of following up on his statement. Much the same after Benghazi, "We will bring those responsible to justice" he blasts from his podium, yet CNN, CBS, and others have long sit down interviews with those on the FBI wanted list, but where is the justice that president Obama promised? He is a laughing stock. And yes... Now he says that he will recover and stop hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare fraud.. What a joke, why did the federal government wait for Obamacare to stop this fraud? Why did they not do something about it before? Because they have no real intention of stopping the fraud, it just sounded good to people like you and give you ammunition for you defense of this fool.... They will not stop the fraud, nor will they actually cut the medicare expenses as he promised, it was all just a ruse to pass his healthcare legislation. How many years have they passed a doc fix? Just what is the doc fix anyway? Is it not just a budgeting gimmick that they use so that when they report future deficits to the program they can use lower provider expenses so things will not look as bad as they really are.... only to come along and change the law back to what it was after the program yearly reports are done? If that is not what it is about then please explain it to me because it seems to me that each year our congress is scrambling to pass that damn doc fix.

Your talking points may sound good but they are shallow, easily taken apart.