30 Stupid Things The Government Is Spending Money On by
Michael Snyder, on February 29th, 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”.
#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.
#16 The National Science Foundation
once spent $216,000 to study whether or not politicians “gain or lose support
by taking ambiguous positions”.
#18 The federal government spends 25 billion dollars a year
maintaining federal buildings that are either unused or totally vacant.
#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: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-stupid-things-the-governemnt-is-spending-money-on
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