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10 Cool Things The U.S. Government Spent Money On In 2011
Senator Tom Coburn's annual Wastebook lists all of the frivolous things our government wastes taxpaper money on - $6.5billion to be exact. According to his list, any money that goes towards art, alternative energy, or promoting jobs in impoverished cities is a complete waste. posted
1. Taxpayer-Funded Snow Cones for Emergencies (and Promotions) – $6,279
They were purchased to treat heat exhaustion in Michigan. Have you ever been to Michigan? It is depressing. Those poor people could use a rainbow snowcone.
2. Federal Dollars Goes Toward Cowboy Poetry – $50,000
There is an annual Cowboy Poetry Party where cowboys and cowgirls, poets and musicians, artisans and scholars, rural people and city folks get together to recite prose for a week in January.
3. Taxpayer Dollars Go to Promoting Christmas Trees – $75,00
Normally liberals hate Christmas, but not this year!
4. Video Game Preservation – $113,270
The International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) received over $100,000 in federal funds for video game preservation. According to the organization‘s website, it collects, studies, and interprets video games, other electronic games, and related materials and the ways in which electronic games are changing how people play, learn, and connect with each other, including cross boundaries of culture and geography.
5. Drug-Themed “Mellow Mushroom” Pizza Restaurant – $484,000
I ordered from a Mellow Mushroom franchise in Tallahassee once and it was awesome. I was shocked that vegetable vegan pizza was actually available at 1am in Florida.
6. Study Looks for Connections Between Cocaine and Risky Sex Habits of Quail – $175,580
7. Study on Jordanian Student Hookah Smoking – $55,380
Over the past three years, the National Institute of Health‘s Fogarty International Center has awarded a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher nearly $170,000 to study changes in hookah smoking habits and beliefs of university students in Jordan including over $50,000 in 2011.
8. Study of Online Dating – $606,000
Researchers at Columbia University received over $600,000 to study how heterosexuals use the internet to meet one another, and how that activity influences their sexual behavior.
9. The Treehouse Museum Spends Taxpayer Dollars to Teach the Art of Puppetry – $74,470
There's a treehouse museum in Utah??!
10. The Study of Feces-Throwing in Chimps – $592,527
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obviously preserving the arts and culture of our country is a waste of money as is studying animal nature which we know very little about.
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#2, 3 and 4 were Definatley not a waste the rest as someone else said could be way out of context sooo…
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Senator Tom Coburn's base salary is $174,000. I don't see anything on this list that's a bigger waste of government funds.
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I just…. I just can't. “Cowboy poetry” could have paid off all of my college tuition. :(
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I read some of your source of this article, the source is possibly the most biased thing I have ever had the displeasure of coming across. Including quotes from 'passers by' (the restaurant that happens to have a mushroom on the logo), studies that are just completely misrepresented, dismissal of any project that involves helping other countries, and as you mentioned anything to do with art or culture. Scary stuff. Who'd of thought it politicians talking out their arse. It's normally a little less obvious though.
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Not bad. But one thing…..why put a picture of Bush for the cowboy poetry deal when the whole thing was pushed and promoted by Harry Reid (D)?
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this sort of pissed me off…
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