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Things The Government Is Spending Money On
March 10, 2012
If you want
to get paid for doing something stupid, just turn to the U.S.
government. The
U.S. government is paying researchers to play video games, it is paying
researchers to study the effects of cocaine on Japanese quail and it
has spent
millions of dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.
The
amount of money that the government wastes is absolutely horrifying. Do
you
remember all of that political wrangling over the debt ceiling deal
last year?
Do you remember how our politicians told us that there were cutting
spending as
much as they possibly could? Well, it was all a giant lie. As you will
see
below, the U.S. government is spending money on some of the most stupid
things
imaginable. What makes all of this even worse is that we are going into
enormous amounts of debt in order to pay for all of this. We are
borrowing
billions of dollars a day in order to pay for stupid stuff that no
government
on earth should ever be paying for. Trust me, you are going to find it
hard to
believe some of the stuff in this list. It is almost inconceivable what
our
politicians are doing with our tax dollars. The following are 30
incredibly
stupid things that the federal government is spending money on….
#1 The U.S.
government is spending $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees
held at
Guantanamo Bay.
#2 The
Obama administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars
helping
students from Indonesia get master’s degrees.
#3 If you
can believe it, the U.S. government has spent $175,587 “to determine if
cocaine
makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”.
#4 The U.S.
government spent $200,000 on “a tattoo removal program” in Mission
Hills,
California.
#5 The
federal government has shelled out $3 million to researchers at the
University
of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as
World of
Warcraft. Wouldn’t we all love to have a “research job” like that?
#6 The
Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $500 million on
a
program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of
5-year-old
children that “can’t sit still” in a kindergarten classroom.
#7 Fannie
Mae is about to ask the federal government for another $4.6 billion
bailout,
and it will almost certainly get it.
#8 The
federal government once spent 30 million dollars on a program that was
designed
to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos.
#9 The U.S.
Department of Agriculture once gave researchers at the University of
New
Hampshire $700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.
#10
According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies “fund 209
different
science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs —
and 173
of those programs overlap with at least one other program.”
#11 A total
of $615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to
digitize
photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.
#12 China
lends us more money than any other foreign nation, but that didn’t stop
our
government from spending 17.8 million dollars on social and
environmental
programs for China.
#13 The
U.S. government once spent 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese
prostitutes to
drink responsibly.
#14 One
professor at Stanford University was given $239,100 to study how
Americans use
the Internet to find love.
#15 The
U.S. Postal Service spent $13,500 on a single dinner at Ruth’s Chris
Steakhouse.
#16 The
National Science Foundation once spent $216,000 to study whether or not
politicians “gain or lose support by taking ambiguous positions”.
#17 A total
of $1.8 million was spent on a “museum of neon signs” in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
#18 The
federal government spends 25 billion dollars a year maintaining federal
buildings that are either unused or totally vacant.
#19 U.S. farmers
are given a total of $2 billion each year for not farming their land.
#20 The
U.S. government handed one Tennessee library $5,000 for the purpose of
hosting
a series of video game parties.
#21 A few
years ago the government spent $123,050 on a Mother’s Day Shrine in
Grafton,
West Virginia. It turns out that Grafton only has a population of a
little more
than 5,000 people.
#22 One
professor at Dartmouth University was given $137,530 to create a
“recession-themed” video game entitled “Layoff”.
#23 According
to the Heritage Foundation, the U.S. military spent “$998,798 shipping
two
19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an
89-cent
washer from South Carolina to Florida”.
#24 The
U.S. Department of Agriculture once shelled out $30,000 to a group of
farmers
to develop a tourist-friendly database of farms that host guests for
overnight
“haycations”.
#25 The
National Institutes of Health paid researchers $400,000 to find out why
gay men
in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk.
#26 The
National Institutes of Health also once spent $442,340 to study the
behavior of
male prostitutes in Vietnam.
#27 The
National Institutes of Health loves to spend our tax money on really
bizarre
things. The NIH once spent $800,000 in “stimulus funds” to study the
impact of
a “genital-washing program” on men in South Africa.
#28
According to the Washington Post, 1,271 different government
organizations work
on government programs related to counterterrorism and homeland
security.
#29 The
U.S. government spent $100,000 on a “Celebrity Chef Fruit Promotion
Road Show
in Indonesia”.
#30 The
feds once gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 “to paint a Chinook salmon” on
the side
of a Boeing 737.
How in the
world can our government be so foolish?
Anyone that
claims that there is not a lot of stuff that can be cut out of the
federal
budget is lying to you.
All of this
crazy spending is going to get us into a massive amount of trouble
eventually.
Already, on a per capita basis the U.S. national debt is worse than the
national debts of Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain.
We have
accumulated the biggest debt in the history of the world and we are
adding to
it at a rate of about 150 million dollars an hour.
Our
politicians strut around as if they are the smartest and wisest leaders
in the
history of the world, but the truth is that someday people will look
back in
horror at the decline of our once great society.
The federal
government needs to stop spending so much money on stupid things and
needs to
stop pushing our national debt to nightmarish new levels.
Unfortunately,
the corruption in Washington D.C. is so deep and so pervasive that it
is going
to be almost impossible to turn it around.
Source:
mrconservative.com
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