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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Your Taxes Hard at Work: Top 10 Bailoutees Spend $9.5 Lobbying DC in 1Q of 09

The pigs that fed out of the government's trough, apparently, spent some the money they received out of our hard-earned tax money to panhandle in the halls of Congress to get more of the taxpayers' money.

The top 10 recipients of the government's $700 billion financial bailout spent about $9.5 million on federal lobbying during the first three months of the year.


Of those who ate at the government's bailout buffet on our dime, the nearly bankrupt GM was the number one offender. They spent $2.8 million on begging for more scraps.

To get a full list of the deadbeat CEOs here.

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