End of the American Dream – by Michael
Is there anyone better at wasting money then the U.S. government?
Despite the sequester and all of the talk about “deep cutbacks”, the
federal government continues to waste money in some of the most
outrageous ways imaginable. For example, does the U.S. government
really have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to study the size
and shape of the reproductive organs of ducks?
Does the U.S. government really have to spend 1.5
million dollars
to study why so many lesbians are overweight? There is so much waste
that could still be cut out of the federal budget, and yet the very
small sequester cuts that just happened are being described as
“catastrophic” by many of our politicians.
But you know what? The federal government will still spend more
money in fiscal year 2013 than it did in fiscal year 2012 even after the
sequester cuts are factored in. So if this is how much whining our
politicians will do even though government spending is still going up,
what would they do if we were actually forced
to start living within our means at some point? That is something to think about.
In any event, please show this article to anyone that believes that
the U.S. government is actually “tightening the belt”. Sadly, the truth
is that the federal government is still wasting our money in some of
the most frivolous ways that you could possibly imagine.
The following are some of the completely outrageous ways that the U.S. government is wasting money…
#1 The National Science Foundation has given
$384,949 to
Yale University to do a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and
the Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”. Try not to laugh, but much of
this research involves examining and measuring the reproductive organs
of male ducks.
#2 The IRS spent
$60,000 on a film parody of “Star Trek” and a film parody of “Gilligan’s Island”.
Internal Revenue Service employees were
the actors in the two parodies, so as you can imagine the acting was really bad.
#3 The National Institutes of Health has given
$1.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts to study why “three-quarters” of lesbians in the
United States are overweight and why most gay males are not.
#4 The National Institutes of Health has also spent
$2.7 million to study why lesbians have more “vulnerability to hazardous drinking”.
#5 The U.S. government is giving sixteen F-16s and
200 Abrams tanks to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt even though the new
president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi (a member of the Muslim Brotherhood),
constantly makes statements
such as the following…
“Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children
and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all
those who support them”
#6 During 2012, the salaries of Barack Obama’s three climate change advisers combined came to a grand total of
more than $370,000.
#7 Overall, 139 different White House staffers were making
at least $100,000during 2012, and there were 20 staffers that made the maximum of
$172,200.
#8 Amazingly, U.S. taxpayers spend
more than 1.4 billion dollars a year on the Obamas. Meanwhile, British taxpayers only spend about 58 million dollars on the entire royal family.
#9 During 2012,
$25,000 of federal money was spent on a promotional tour for the Alabama Watermelon Queen.
#10 The U.S. government spent
$505,000 “to promote specialty hair and beauty products for cats and dogs” in 2012.
#11 NASA spends
close to a million dollars a year developing
a menu of food for a manned mission to Mars even though it is being
projected that a manned mission to Mars is still decades away.
#12 During 2012, the federal government spent
15 million dollars to help Russian weapons institutes recruit nuclear scientists.
#13 Over the past 15 years, a total of approximately
$5.25 million has been spent on hair care services for the U.S. Senate.
#14 The U.S. government spent
27 million dollars to teach Moroccans how to design and make pottery in 2012.
#15 At a time when we have an
epidemic of unemployment in the United States, the U.S.
Department of Education is spending
$1.3 million to
“reduce linguistic, academic, and employment barriers for skilled and
low-skilled immigrants and refugees, and to integrate them into the U.S.
workforce and professions.”
#16 The federal government still sends about
20 million dollars a year to the surviving family members of veterans of World War I, even though World War I ended 94 years ago.
#17 The U.S. government is spending approximately
3.6 million dollars a year to support the lavish lifestyles of former presidents such as George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
#18 During fiscal 2012, the National Science Foundation gave researchers at Purdue University
$350,000.
They used part of that money to help fund a study that discovered that
if golfers imagine that a hole is bigger it will help them with their
putting.
#19 The U.S. government is giving
hundreds of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority every year.
#20 Federal agencies have purchased a total of
approximately 2 billion rounds of ammunition over the past 10 months. It is claimed that all of this ammunition is needed for “training purposes”.
#21 During 2012, the National Science Foundation
spent $516,000 on the creation of a video game called “Prom Week” which
apparently simulates “
all the social interactions of the event.”
#22 If you can believe it,
$10,000 of U.S. taxpayer money was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes up in Michigan.
#23 When Joe Biden and his staff took a trip to London back in February, the hotel bill cost U.S. taxpayers
$459,388.65.
#24 Joe Biden and his staff also stopped in Paris for one night back in February. The hotel bill for that one night came to
$585,000.50.
#25 If you can believe it,
close to 15,000 retired
federal employees are currently collecting federal pensions for life
worth at least $100,000 annually. That list includes such names as Newt
Gingrich, Bob Dole, Trent Lott, Dick Gephardt and Dick Cheney.
#26 The U.S. Department of Agriculture has spent
$300,000 to encourage Americans to eat caviar.
#27 The National Institutes of Health recently gave
$666,905 to a group of researchers that is conducting a study on the benefits of
watching reruns on television.
#28 The National Science Foundation has given
1.2 million dollars to
a team of “scientists” that is spending part of that money on a study
that is seeking to determine whether elderly Americans would benefit
from playing
World of Warcraft or not.
#29 The National Institutes of Health recently gave
$548,731 to a team of researchers that concluded that those that drink heavily in their thirties also tend to feel more immature.
#30 The National Science Foundation recently spent
$30,000 on
a study to determine if “gaydar” actually exists. This is the
conclusion that the researchers reached at the end of the study….
“Gaydar is indeed real and… its accuracy is driven by sensitivity to individual facial features”
Here are 30 more examples of outrageous government waste from one of my previous articles entitled “
Chimps Throwing Poop And 29 Other Mind Blowing Ways That The Government Is Wasting Your Money“…
#1 In 2011, the National Institutes of Health spent
$592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop.
#2 The National Institutes of Health has spent
more than 5 million dollars on a website called Sexpulse that is targeted at “men who use the Internet to seek sex with men”. According
to Fox News,
the website “includes pornographic images of homosexual sex as well as
naked and scantily clad men” and features “a Space Invaders-style
interactive game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets.”
#3 The General Services Administration spent
$822,751 on a “training conference” for 300 west coast employees at the M Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
The following is how
the Washington Post described some of the wasteful expenses that happened during this “conference”…
Among the “excessive, wasteful and in some cases
impermissable” spending the inspector general documented: $5,600 for
three semi-private catered in-room parties and $44 per person daily
breakfasts; $75,000 for a “team-building” exercise — the goal was to build a bicycle; $146,000 on catered food and drinks; and $6,325 on commemorative coins
in velvet boxes to reward all participants for their work on stimulus
projects. The $31,208 “networking” reception featured a $19-per-person
artisanal cheese display and $7,000 of sushi. At the conference’s
closing-night dinner, employees received “yearbooks” with their
pictures, at a cost of $8,130.
You can see some stunning pictures of GSA employees living the high life in Las Vegas
right here.
#4 Do you remember when credit rating agency Egan Jones downgraded U.S.
government debt from AA+ to AA? Well, someone in the federal government apparently did not like that at all. According
to Zero Hedge, the SEC plans to file charges against Egan Jones for “misstatements” on a regulatory application with the SEC.
Normally, the SEC does not go after anyone. After all, when is the last time a major banker went to prison?
No, the truth is that the SEC is usually just a huge waste of taxpayer money. According
to ABC News,
one investigation found that 17 senior SEC officials had been regularly
viewing pornography while at work. While the American people were
paying their salaries, this is what senior SEC officials were busy
doing…
One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington
spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn, according to the
report, which has yet to be released. When he filled all the space on
his government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to
CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices.
An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times
in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer
hard drive.
Another SEC accountant used his SEC-issued computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto porn websites he joined.
And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.
#5 According to InformationWeek, the federal government is spending “
millions of dollars” to train Asian call center workers.
#6 If you can believe it, the federal government has actually spent
$750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
#7 The U.S. Agency for International Development spent
10 million dollars to create a version of “Sesame Street” for Pakistani television.
#8 The Obama administration has plans to spend between
16 and 20 million dollars to help students from Indonesia get master’s degrees.
#9 The National Science Foundation spent
$198,000 on
a University of California-Riverside study that explored “motivations,
expectations and goal pursuit in social media.” One of the questions the
study sought an answer to was the following: “Do unhappy people spend
more time on Twitter or Facebook?”
#10 The federal government actually has spent
$175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”.
#11 In 2011,
$147,138 was
given to the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan. Their
best magic trick is making U.S. taxpayer dollars disappear.
#12 The federal government recently spent
$74,000 to help Michigan “increase awareness about the role Michigan plays in the production of trees and poinsettias.”
#13 In 2011, the federal government gave
$550,000 toward the making of a documentary about how rock and roll contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union.
#14 The National Institutes of Health has contributed
$55,382 toward a study of “hookah smoking habits” in the country of Jordan.
#15 The federal government gave
$606,000 to researchers at Columbia University to study how heterosexuals use the Internet to find love.
#16 A total of
$133,277 was
recently given to the International Center for the History of
Electronic Games for video game preservation. The International Center
for the History of Electronic Games says that 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 across boundaries of
culture and geography.”
#17 The federal government has given
approximately $3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research into video games such as World of Warcraft.
#18 In 2011, the National Science Foundation gave one team of researchers
$149,990 to create a video game called “RapidGuppy” for cell phones and other mobile devices.
#19 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once handed researchers at the University of New Hampshire
$700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.
#20 In 2011,
$936,818 was
spent developing an online soap opera entitled “Diary of a Single
Mom”. The show “chronicles the lives and challenges of three single
mothers and their families trying to get ahead despite obstacles that
all single mothers face, such as childcare, healthcare, education, and
finances.”
#21 The federal government once shelled out
$2.6 million to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.
#22 Last year, the federal government spent
$96,000 to buy iPads for kindergarten students in Maine.
#23 The U.S. Postal Service once spent
$13,500 for a single dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.
#24 In 2011, the Air Force Academy completed work on
an outdoor worship area for pagans and Wiccans. The worship area
consists of “a small Stonehenge-like circle of boulders with [a] propane
fire pit” and it cost
$51,474to
build. The worship area is “for the handful of current or future
cadets whose religions fall under the broad category of ‘Earth-based’,
which includes Wiccans, druids and pagans.” At this point, that only
includes 3 current students at the Air Force Academy.
#25 The National Institutes of Health once gave researchers
$400,000 to study why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk.
#26 The National Institutes of Health once gave researchers
$442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam.
#27 The National Institutes of Health once spent
$800,000 in “stimulus funds” to study the impact of a “genital-washing program” on men in South Africa.
#28 The National Science Foundation recently spent
$200,000 on a study that examined how voters react when politicians change their stances on climate change.
#29 The federal government recently spent
$484,000 to help build a Mellow Mushroom pizzeria in Arlington, Texas.
#30 At this point, China is holding over a trillion
dollars of U.S. government debt. But that didn’t stop the United States
from sending
17.8 million dollars in foreign aid to China in 2011.
So what do you think about all of this government waste?
Please feel free to share your thoughts by posting a comment below…
We’ve
also been physically attacked financially, repeatedly, since this shadow-war
began. The broken-scales of “just-us” have been artificially weighed down
with stolen-gold while denying the sustenance that Americans need just
to stay alive. 
