December 30th, 2010
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com
waste book - 2010
Although the United States is $13 trillion in debt, mandatory spending alone exceeds tax revenues, and the Congressional Budget Office is warning of a coming U.S. “fiscal crisis,” Congress felt no need to trim spending. The just-adjourned 111th Congress headed by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi added more to the national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, has published his collection of the 100 most wasteful projects his colleagues deemed worthy of your hard-earned tax dollars this year. Among the most offensive, ridiculous, and startling examples of pork in the Year of our Lord 2010, he found:
- Nearly $5,000 of stimulus money to hire goats to graze the weeds at Idaho’s Heyburn State Park;
- $6 billion for ethanol subsidies, which raise food costs;
- $177,000 for Ohio teachers to travel to China to learn about the Chinese “education” system;
- $137,530 for a Dartmouth professor to develop “Layoff,” a video game that encourages its players to fire as many people as quickly as possible;
- $700,000 for New Hampshire researchers to examine “greenhouse gas emission from organic dairies,” which are cause by “cow burps, among other things”;
- $442,340 to study male prostitutes in Vietnam;
- $823,000 to teach South African men how to wash their genitals after sex. (We reported this one earlier this year);
- $55,000 to celebrate HIV Vaccine Awareness Day. Of course, thereis no anti-AIDS vaccine, but the “observance is a day to recognize and thank” the professionals “who are working together to find” a cure
and, also from "Expose Obama":
December 30th, 2010
