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Friday, March 2, 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 $800,000in “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.
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There is an advertisement on Alex’s radio show for rope.
Yeah, we’re gonna need a lot of rope, alright …. a whole lot of rope.
Oni66a is clearly doing his blue-lip lying best to keep this nazi nwo whore train at full speed.
Fuck that stupid fucking nig-nog.
What is that blue-lip crap supposed to mean?? His lips ain’t blue. I guess if I was a
racist I would know what that means.
Some crazy shiite huh folks!!! Here’s a challenge…those Top 30 quotes would make a good song for the age!!! I’m not up to it so…have at it!!! And WTF is Jap quails doin’ blow anyway??? Now mixed with wasabe that would be different!!! Ika anyone??? Y’all have a goodin’!!!
“All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
HillbillyJihad TheBubbaLiberationFront
It gives their coke-snorting buddies free coke and a legitimate reason for having it.
The should have used “Falcons”…
Not only that, It’s pharmaceutical quality GOOD Coke.
…also…remember that movie “Victory” with Pele and “Rambo”?
Kinda makes you wonder about that soccer field.
a “recession-themed” video game entitled “layoff.”
wow. lol you just hobble around and beg for vittles…CHOOSE your CHARACTER…the THIEF! the wandering VAGRANT! dumpster DIVER!
haycations…lol something tells me they aren’t going to like that very much.
Ah, the never ending death spiral of communism. It’s never worked before, it never will work. Government is waste.
correction: ever failing death spiral
Just ONE million would be enough for me to start spraeding the word about my website, and then be able to pay for billboards and advertizment positions on televison to get everyone aware of the new world order.
“Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.” ~ H. L. Mencken
click on my name for more about the stolen goods that you paid for …..
No, beggar.
I hope the next stupid thing will be: “THE OBAMA MAFIA PAID USD3 MILLIONS TO HAVE ANDREW BREITBART SILENCED”……………………………now that would be great thing to also have the Kenyan also silenced
If you want to donate your own money to get someone else’s tattoo removed, be my guest, but the government has no constitutional right to give away tax money to anyone.
Welfare is unconstitutional as well.
“I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.” – President Grover Cleveland, 1887
“[Congressional jurisdiction of power] is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.” – James Madison, Federalist 14
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined . . . to be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.” – James Madison, Federalist 45
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James Madison, 1792
“[I must question] the constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those … who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy … I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.” – President Franklin Pierce, 1854
As a Christian I believe that we are compelled to help people and give our time and money to those in need, but the government has NO RIGHT giving our tax money away. PERIOD.
hey asshole, how are you going to stop them, most every one gets it, that what they are doing is wrong. what i want to know is where are the people going to find the muscle to make the government stop. i do not see any resistance forming to stop any of it. let those in need ban together and help each other, that would take care of the needy. don’t tell me any of your buy bull crap about how god is going to take care of it, god does the most amazing thing, which is nothing at all.
Apparently you aren’t doing anything to make things better. Thanks for that.
As much as I think Grover Lindquist’s tax pledge machine has issues, it’s lists like this that make it seem like a good idea.
I don’t think anyone who could get an honest glimpse of the colossal waste of money our government squanders on a daily basis would be for tax increases. At most, maybe rearrange the current levels to push a little more towards the wealthier, eliminate some loopholes, there’s little left to squeeze from the little guy.
A couple of those are legitimate uses of tax money like the tattoo removal program. That was a program that offered free tattoo removal for gang members who wanted to turn their lives around and be productive members of society. I don’t mind my tax money going to help out my fellow Americans who need a hand up. Plus, it benefits society as a whole.
We should be demanding that 100% of tax revenue be collected and spent back on us in the form of Infrastructure, Education, Job Training, Housing and Food Production. We’d all be a heck of a lot better off.
If they had money to buy the tatto, how come they had no money to remove it?
I have done many things in my life but never got a tatoo.
The idiots who get them probably wonder why they can’t find work.
Try going into an interview for a hi paying job with a tatoo on your neck or other visible places.
You know what asshole, if these usernames came with an address you wouldn’t say half the shit you do. Hiding behind your keyboard. I have tattoo’s and work for myself. Made $95,000 last summer. Jerk-off! And I’ll tell you what, the tattoo’s that I have are the only thing that I will take to the grave with me when I die. How bout you? Go back to your miserable life and miserable job, slave.
Hey asswipe. fuck off you lowlife fucktard,.
Aunty / NY :
My self rule is never get a tat that can be seen at a job interview.
I have ‘em… None that can be seen…
My personal opinion… What ever its worth…..
Yeah, I don’t like tatoos either but my oldest son has some. He did it
against my wishes but I still love him. To each their own.
These guys aren’t going down to the local tattoo shop and forking over hundreds of dollars for clean, quality tattoos. They’re mostly “home jobs” done with crude materials by people who aren’t qualified. They look terrible. Some are “prison tats” that depict their life of crime in pictures and gang symbols. Tear drops on their faces, neck tattoos, etc.
These tattoos don’t generally cost any money upfront, but will burden the wearer for a lifetime. Being branded as a “thug” even when they have left the gang life and made the decision to better themselves is simply not fair. People make mistakes. We should be more willing to help these folks out, it would benefit us all as a society.
Who told you life was ” fair “..??
Shit yer bed… Sleep in it.
Another way to look at it is you can pay the $500 to have a tattoo removed and hopefully have them find work and finally become productive citizens or save the $500 and spend $25,000 a year for the next 10 while they’re in prison because they couldn’t find work.
Good point. A lot of crime could be avoided by providing for people’s needs.
Yeah… Wellfare sure stops crime….
i do not want any of my tax dollars to go to any one else but me, pay for your own fucking house and food and education and medical and job training. let the government put tariffs on trade goods to fix the infrastructure and provide for a strong defense of this republic, just like the ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION says we should do. you can take your socialist wealth redistribution and shove it up your commie ass.
you had better get a clue real fast pinko, because when the balloon goes up, your ilk will be the first us patriots will take out.
Maybe the Founding Fathers got it wrong. Maybe a Representative Republic isn’t the form of government that provides the best possible life for the majority of the People. I think a more Egalitarian Society is possible if we decide want it. But, if we let our Greed overcome us we’ll never have the kind of Progress we could have. Remember: There are no Rich People and there are no Poor People. There are just People. It’s our duty as Human Beings to look out for one another.
if you want to wast your money on doing that, be my guest, but you will not force me to, try it and i will do my best to put you in your grave. my duty is to myself, if you don’t like it tough shit. make my day, punk.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE!
YOUR FUCKING ILK NEVER GETS TIRED OF STEALING OTHER PEOPLE’S WEALTH. IF YOU WANT TO BE A NWO WHORE GO FOR IT BUT I REPEAT YOU WILL NOT FORCE ME TO.
i do not want my tax dollars to go to any one but me, you can pay for your own fucking house, food, job training. let the government put tariffs on trade goods to fix the infrastructure and to provide for a strong defense of this republic, just like the constitution says to do, no you can take your commie wealth redistribution bull shit and shove it up your ass, and you had better get a clue, because when the balloon goes up, your ilk will be the first ones us patriots will get.
This makes me wanna woof my waffles.
In 1995 the USAF closed down Rhein Main AB in Germany and brand new Snap On tool boxes (roll arounds) full of tools were destroyed.
Any airman wanting to take them home and getting caught was severely punished.
Same with brand new barracks furniture, thrown out of the window before barracks was demolished.
Was destroyed with sledgehammers.
Absolutely nothing about this surprises me. Infact if the U.S. government did not spend money on stupid things they probably wouldnt be able to hide the extremely facist direction they are headed too.