The Government Keeps Wasting Money

A recent report released by Senator Tom Coburn (R-)OK) gives a list of wasteful spending by the federal government in Washington, D.C.. Millions of dollars we don't have and yet the waste and abuse continues.

Politicians believe that the government can better spend your money better than you can. Just a partial list:

•Federal funding in the amount of $593,000 went to a primate research center to study where in chimpanzees' brains they get the idea to throw their feces.

•A Virginia university received $55,000 to study Jordanian students' water pipe smoking habits.

•A new grant of $176,000 joined $350,000 already spent to study how cocaine hurts or helps the sex drive of Japanese quail.

•A museum of magic received $147,000 to study the audiences of magic shows.

•More than $550,000 of U.S. taxes went to the production of a documentary on how rock bands contributed to the fall of the Soviet empire.

Then we have $120 million for federal retirement benefits to retirees who are already dead. More than $550,000 of U.S. taxes went to the production of a documentary on how rock bands contributed to the fall of the Soviet empire.

A television production of a Pakistani version of PBS' "Sesame Street" has already cost tax payers $10 million and $20 million more has already been budgeted.

IPad 2s were purchased for $96,000 for students in Maine, where 96 percent of their parents said the cost wasn't worth it.

Nevada's Western Folklife Center received $50,000 for cowboys and cowgirls to gather once a year to recite cowboy poetry. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) a native of the Silver State, expressed his anger when the House of Representatives tried to cut it.

There is a culture of spending in Congress. They don't want to have to say, 'no.' Their vocabulary is all about 'yes'. They think there's all this free money around and if they don't grab it, somebody else will.

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