Interesting laurance...

You've actually managed to turn a failed conspiracy into a laughing stock by suggesting that the IRS, the DHS, etc's schredding papers is as a result of Bush, even after I managed to point out how stupid this article is.

Tell me something...

How big a warerhouse would be required to store the paperwork that is required by law to be destroyed containing confidential information if it was kept forever?

So, are we all agreed that this is not a conspiracy?

LOL

Here's the thing, there is way more evidence in this article that the Dims are hiding something than the Republicans, which still means there is nothing here to persue.

What has happened is that privacy laws and the shift to electronic storage have increased the number of documents legally required to be destroyed dramatically.

Yet it's ok if people throw this BS story in the faces of the republicans, if I turn it around and show the evidence that the Dims are the ones responsible, then it make this a whole different game now, doesn't it?

Interesting how in the wrong hands, the truth can quickly become a lie...

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Behold, the Bush Administration in chart form: Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since George W. Bush took office.

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However, the truth is a little different...

First of all, of the top 5 districts that contract out schredding services, four are controlled by democrats.

Top 5 Known Congressional Districts where Work is Performed
District of Columbia nonvoting (Eleanor Holmes Norton) $1,017,407
New York 14 (Carolyn B. Maloney) $442,500
Maryland 8 (Constance A. Morella / Chris Van Hollen) $409,088
Georgia 4 (Cynthia A. McKinney / Denise L. Majette / Cynthia A. McKinney) $273,500
Illinois 7 (Danny K. Davis) $169,188

The one not controlled by democrats is interestingly enough the home of the IRS's main computer center.

Internal Revenue Service $5,471,067
ARMY, Department of the (except Corps of Engineers Civil Program Financing) $1,282,354
NAVY, Department of the $1,062,492
U.S. Secret Service $702,114
VETERANS AFFAIRS, Department of $678,590

The Federal Government's total paper schredding budget?

Paper Shredding Services $13,079,687

As the IRS makes up over a third of the budget, it's fairly simple to explain the concentration of services in the D.C. area. However, that is not he whole story.

What I find interesting is that given the locations of where the money is being spent, and the breakdown in actual expendatures, the one place that can not be easily explained for having a huge paper schredding budget is the current home of Hillary Clinton.

5 minutes with Google could have shown the truth on this story.