Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Money Down The Drain

All of this in 2011! The government just LOVES to piss away the taxpayers' money!

10. $764,825 for a study on how college students use cell phones and social media  [College students abuse cell phones and social media and then flunk out from lack of studying]

9. $136,555 for teachers to retrace Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in England

8. $55,660 on butter packaging

7. $606,000 for a study about online dating  [People need to figure out their own strategies for their own screwing parties]

6. $484,000 for a pizza restaurant

5. $48,700 towards the Second Annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival

4. $147,138 to build a magic museum

3. $96,000 on iPads for kindergarteners  [It took years for Mrs. AOW, a taxpayer, years to save up for my iPad.  I sure as hell was older than a kindergartener when I got MY iPad]

2. $175,587 for a study on the link between cocaine and the mating habits of quail  [Where are these coke-snorting quails?]

1. $130,987 for dragon robots  [What are these things?]


Details about each of the above points HERE.

6 comments:

Brooke said...

This is only the tip of the tip of the waste-iceberg, too!

And the left stares stupidly at us when we complain about the ridiculously high taxation rates!

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

It's good to know they're not wasting my tax dollars. IMPEACH WASHINGTON!

Thersites said...

Hey, this is why the Left hates capitalism. It "quantifies" their collective stupidity.

Alexander Münch said...


Jeru'm Court today-

Indictment against orthodox Jew for attacking a #IDF soldier during a bus ride coz she sat in front of the bus!...

MAGGOT! - A real pisser!

http://goo.gl/P1Aa4

Alligator said...

For $764,825.00, I would have told the feds everything they wanted to know about college kids using cell phones. I've been through ti four times.

BB-Idaho said...

Back in the 70s, Senator Proxmire from Wisconsin began issuing the
'Golden Fleece Award' for dumbest
waste of gov't $$...
$3000 for a study on why prisoners wnat to get out of jail..
$$ US Army study on how to purchase Worcestershire sauce
(SPEC EE-W-600F)..
..and my favorite, a research grant on whether sunfish that drink tequila are more aggressive than sunfish that drink gin.
..I kind of miss ol Proxmire...