Wastebook 2012
As the economy staggers toward collapse under the weight of the government spending Democrats use to justify Taxmageddon, Townhall touches on a few of the more outrageous examples of reckless extravagance described in Senator Tom Coburn’s Wastebook 2012 (PDF):
Coburn details a $27 million U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program for pottery classes in Morocco. The program, which has a questionable premise in the first place, was doomed due to incompetence and mismanagement. Translators with a questionable grasp of English were hired and used materials unavailable to Moroccans. The Inspector General concluded that the program was “ineffective and poorly implemented.”
Then there are the free cell phones, made infamous by the Obamaphone Creature:
The cell phone program, called Lifeline, has exploded in recent years. The Lifeline program now costs taxpayers $1.5 billion annually and subsidizes the cell phone service of 16.5 million Americans – and a survey found that almost ten percent of all enrollees should not even be eligible for the program.
No budget is complete until it has devoted funds to gaydar research:
The National Science Foundation spent $30,000 to fund a study done by the University of Washington and Cornell University’s to measure “gaydar” – the ability of people to identify sexual orientation merely by appearance. The researchers confirmed that “gaydar” exists, writing that participants were about 60% accurate when attempting to identify sexual orientation by appearance.
Food stamps are another great way to waste other people’s money. Quoting directly from the report:
The USDA Inspector General found roughly 2,000 dead people are still receiving food stamps in New York and Massachusetts combined. Additionally, its investigation revealed 7,236 people in these states are receiving duplicate benefits, while 286 are on state lists that should exclude them from receiving food stamps. These unnecessary payments amount to $1.4 million every month.
Dems will tell you that even if it tips us back into recession, they must jack taxes through the ceiling to pay for their profligacy. But that is like trying to put out a fire with gasoline, because the more they loot, the more they will waste. Under Obama, the federal government spends $11 for every $7 it confiscates. Our descendents are expected to make up the difference. May they somehow find it in themselves to forgive us for electing our current leadership.
On tips from DaddyOD, AC, SR, and Shawn R.
The Keynesians would also tell you every dollar that oozes out of the sides of big government’s slobbering mouth and drops to the ground is still in fact not waste because it still acts as economic stimulus.
Insanity
The enclosed story proves that apparently, there is no amount of official abuse the American sheeple will not tolerate.
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QUOTABLE QUOTES
“Candy Crowley had to go back and eat crow on CNN. You know in the real world, she would have committed career suicide last night. In the real world, in the media world I grew up in, her career would be finished.
Won’t be now. Because she gave it her all for the good guys, she gave it all for the right side. But she committed an act of journalistic terror or malpractice last night.
If there were any journalistic standards, what she did last night would have been the equivalent of blowing up her career like a suicide bomber but there aren’t any journalistic standards anymore. Instead she’s going to be praised and celebrated, probably get a raise, maybe give her another half hour on that show she hosts…”
–- Rush Limbaugh
“No budget is complete until it has devoted funds to gaydar research:”
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Well, DUH! Please see the article about UC Merced!
Exactly how blind does someone have to be to NOT know that the dudes(?) in these pictures are GAY. Even in not decked out in their Sunday best (or birthday suits) one does not exactly have to be a swami to see what is right before one’s eyes. OMG I want my tax money (the taxes of everyone I know) BACK. NOW!
Even if–sorry
Moroccans have been making pottery for thousands of years. Why in the hell would we spend a dime for pottery classes for them?
Are we going to spend taxpayer money for classes to teach the Montanyards of the central highlands of Vietnam to climb trees? WTF?
Gets my gaydar going or is that paydar?