🐷 Idaho Freedom Foundation 2024 Pork Report is Here! (posted 12/21/24)

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Here at last! Everything you ever wanted to know (but wished you didn’t) about some of Idaho’s worst Porky Projects. Kudos and thanks to the team that produced this fantastic work!

This report highlights all the government waste, both locally and statewide, that your tax dollars are contributing towards. From police car parade floats, to funding the woke LGBT agenda, to hiring a full-time poet… this comprehensive report has everything wrong with our government today.

Here are the key headings you’ll want to explore. The online report is fully referenced with links and well worth your time. (Apologies if we missed anything. We painstakingly created this index from scratch with hopes it will be helpful.)

🐖 THE WORST OF THE WASTE

• GOVERNMENT PORK: IDAHO'S OTHER WASTE MEAT (pages 1-2)

• "GO WOKE, GO BROKE" IS NOT AN INSTRUCTION, BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY (page 3)

• FUNDING THE PRIDE AGENDA (page 4)

• GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING (page 4)

• INTERIM COMMITTEES AND TASK FORCES (page 5)

• COVID FUNDING FOR A $1 MILLION MAIL SORTER? (page 5)

• AGENCIES WANT VERY NICE THINGS (page 6)

• DEI FOR INTERNET (page 6)

• IDAHO'S CALIFORNIA-STYLE NEEDLE EXCHANGE PROGRAM (page 6)

• IDAHO'S LUXURY SPORTS CAR FLEET (page 7)

• AMERICA AT 250, CELEBRATING FREEDOM WITH WASTEFULNESS (page 7)

• THE MILITARY DIVISION'S NEVER-ENDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS (page 8)

• THE MARKET MIRAGE OF GOVERNMENT LIQUOR STORES (page 8)

• THE IDAHO RURAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM (IRP) (page 9)

• THE COST OF EFFICIENCY (page 9)

• NEEDLESS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES (page 9)

• FUNDING IDAHO'S WORKFORCE THE COMMUNIST WAY (page 10)

• DEATH TAKES A TOLL — Lethal Injection (page 11)

• DEATH TAKES ANOTHER TOLL — Alternate death penalty methods (page 12)

• THE MINE THAT'S JUST A HOLE IN THE BUDGET — Bunker Hill Cleanup (page 12)

• SUBSIDIZING BIG AGRICULTURE (page 13)

• "NO-FEE" FOR YOU, BUT SOMEONE PAYS FOR IT — Free ID Cards (page 13)

• GOVERNMENT POCKETING YOUR MONEY (page 13)

• LUMA LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE — Financial Software Boondoggle (page 13)

• GUARANTEED TO HURT TAXPAYERS — PERSI Retirement System (page 14)

⚕️ HEALTHCARE

• THE COST OF GOVERNMENT MEDDLING (page 16)

• MEDICAID PORK EXPANDED AGAIN (page 17)

• THAT'S SOME EXPENSIVE SOFTWARE — Medicaid Software (page 17)

• BIGGER GOVERNMENT, MORE SPENDING — Office of Health and Social Services Ombudsman (page 17)

• OVERSPENDING IS THE REAL EMERGENCY — State Emergency Medical Services system (page 17)

• IDHW EATING UP THE BUDGET IN THEIR BREAKROOM (page 18)

• GOVERNMENT-MONITORED PARENTING (page 18)

• FUNDING THE WOKE MEDICINE PIPELINE — State Medical School at UI Campus (page 18)

• EXPANDING MEDICAL WELFARE ENTITLEMENTS (page 19)

• PAYING FOR INELIGIBLES ON MEDICAID (page 19)

• SUBSIDIZING HIGHLY PAID PROFESSIONALS — Nursing Incentive Program (page 20)

• PAYING "UNPAID" CAREGIVERS (page 20)

• IDAHO IS FUNDING THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRISIS (page 21)

• ROLLING OUT THE WELCOME MAT FOR REFUGEES (page 21)

• THE IRONY OF CHILDCARE SUBSIDIES (page 21)

🎓 EDUCATION

• DEI LIVES ON IN IDAHO HIGHER EDUCATION (page 23)

• SMALL, EXPENSIVE SCHOOL DISTRICTS (page 24)

• COLLECTING DATA ON IDAHO K-12 STUDENTS (page 24)

• ARTS IN RURAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS (page 24)

• WHAT IS THE POINT OF A FUNDING FORMULA ANYWAY? (page 25)

• THE COST OF "FREE" TEXTBOOKS (page 26)

• TAKING A BITE OUT OF THE BUDGET — Where Food Comes From (page 25)

• PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS WELFARE BROKERS (page 25)

• MOVING THE GOALPOSTS ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS (page 26)

🚗 TRANSPORTATION

• ON THIS DAY IN 2024, WASTEFUL SPENDING HAPPENED — Historic Markers (page 28)

• $347 MILLION IN EXTRA SPENDING FOR TRANSPORTATION (page 28)

🐟 RESOURCES

• FISH AND GAME'S NEW WEBSITE (page 30)

• BUREAUCRATS FLEX THEIR 'MUSSELS' FOR MORE FUNDING — Quagga Mussels (page 30)

• THE COST OF TRANSPARENCY? Fish & Game Facility Expansion (page 31)

• MAINTAINING THE CASH FLOW — Additional $ for Deferred Maintenance (page 31)

• DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN FOR SEASONAL PAY — Fish & Game (page 31)

⚖️ CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• A 46% PAY INCREASE FOR ACTORS — Role Players (page 32)

• INMATE TRACKING SYSTEMS (page 32)

• NO OVERSIGHT ON THE OFFICE OF DRUG POLICY (page 33)

🗳️ SECRETARY OF STATE

• ELECTION SOFTWARE DO-OVER (page 34)

• THE ADDRESS CONFIDENTIALITY CONFERENCE (page 33)

• CERTIFIED ELECTION/REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATORS (page 34)

🏦 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• THERE ONCE WAS A POET FROM COEUR D'ALENE ... — Poet Laureate Position (page 36)

• EXPENSIVE REBRANDING CAN'T MASK FISCAL INCOMPETENCE — Ada County Highway District (page 36)

• AUDITORIUM DISTRICTS ARE JUST ANOTHER FORM OF COERCIVE REDISTRIBUTION (page 37)

• FEDERAL DEBT FUNDS BOISE'S SOCIALIST DREAMS — HUD Money for Teen Homelessness (page 37)

📕 REFERENCES (pages 38-41)

Related:

• Nowhere To Hyde — Is Pork Back On the Menu? (12/19/24, video 13:59). With DOGE hard at work in D.C. as an omnibus continuing resolution just failed 🙏, Idaho Freedom Foundation and others provide DOGE-like doggedness in Idaho: youtube.com/live/s1txt5…

• Dr. Paul Releases 2024 ‘Festivus’ Report on Government Waste (12/23/24):