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Mr. Conservative

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.

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» 17 Comments

  1. Diann

    September 17th, 2012

    Okay, you are not making this “swearing off rants” easy for poor Diann.

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  2. Death_By_Farts

    September 17th, 2012

    Where the fuck is Speaker Beohner on this?? How are these funds getting through the House???

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  3. Death_By_Farts

    September 17th, 2012

    Regardless of whether Romney wins or not WE NEED TO TAKE THE SENATE so we can stop this shit!

    Where is the outrage from McConnel? Cantor? Speaker Boehner??

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  4. Troy

    September 17th, 2012

    Not sure if it is on this list but the news today proclaimed that taxpayers are responsible for a sex change of a prison inmate AND his legal fees.
    We are indeed doomed!

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  5. Death_By_Farts

    September 17th, 2012

    #15 REALLY PISSES ME OFF.

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  6. Tim

    September 17th, 2012

    Diann,
    Why would you swear off rants? If gov’t profligacy can’t drive one to rant, then what, pray tell, could?

    I’m not a Constitutional lawyer, like a certain homosexual muslim Kenyan usurping hoaxter presently parked at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW … but I’m fairly certain that this list does NOT represent the intentions of our Founders.

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  7. scribble

    September 17th, 2012

    “The U.S. spends $400,000/yr in salary to employ a traitor in the White House.”

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  8. got kickback

    September 17th, 2012

    no kidding, Dian.

    this seems to be nothing more than standard congressional kickbacks to unions or “big education” and other wealth redistribution schemes/scams either nationally or internationally

    #15 USPS – why that’s just a direct FU to the taxpayers

    y’all reaalize the USPS just needed an extra $8 billion pay all their bills? the $60 billion was only adequate to pay their lavish salaries, lavish benefits, and excessive pensions…
    All the actual infrastructure processing, transportation, etc. only cost them $8 billion

    talk about prioritization

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  9. Stranded in Sonoma

    September 17th, 2012

    …the U.S. government has spent $175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior.”

    They could have spent $2.99 for a bottle of Febreeze and done the same study at any number of OccuScum camps.

    Wait a minute!! Did they buy the cocaine with our money? Jeebus! Wanna bet about 10 bux went toward the total cocaine outlay for the Japanese quail and about $50,000 went for the cocaine outlay for some human “quail?”

    filth and foul and foul/filth and filth/foul filth…

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  10. Stranded in Sonoma

    September 17th, 2012

    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.

    Great. $500 million for ritalin and straight jackets.

    Why don’t they use those on the teachers, school administrators, and district officials? I have some test subjects in Chicago for them.

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  11. bob

    September 17th, 2012

    They didn’t knowingly pass this legislature. This crap was all buried in some other bill with a mundane sounding name like “Continuance of beet farmer subsidies in western Podunk.”

    That pork has been going on for years and needs to be outlawed.

    I can only imagine what scandalous crap was buried in the obamacare legislation. You don’t think all those thousands of pages was entirely about healthcare, do you?

    I’m sure there were some $500 hammers and $1000 toilet seats in there too.

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  12. CrustyB

    September 17th, 2012

    #18 Barack Obama is given an annual salary for his work as President.

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  13. Damn Lawyers

    September 17th, 2012

    Damn, I feel sick after reading all that.

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  14. FreeMan & Sarah on Vacation

    September 17th, 2012

    I am feeling really sick too. This list is insane.
    And like roaches, where you see one there are thousands.

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  15. Rick

    September 18th, 2012

    1500 Chevy Volts in the Defense budget. So we can have a leaner, greener, more environmentally friendly killing machine.

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  16. Refugiado Indisciplinado

    September 18th, 2012

    #2 The Obama administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master’s degrees.”

    They must have run out of dogs to cook, you don’t need a master’s for that.

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  17. Stranded in Sonoma

    September 18th, 2012

    @bob — What you are explaining is true and that is why we have a president. He’s supposed to question the budget and all of the bills, find the stuff that shouldn’t be in there, redline them, then veto the bill and sent it back for correction.

    I don’t think many presidents have ever done that.

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