1. “Almost Empty” Mall Awarded Energy
Grant ($5 million)
2. Renovations for Federal Building as
Expensive as New Building ($133 million)
33. Study on "Hookup" Behavior of Female College Coeds ($219,000)
The National Institute of Health (NIH) is using stimulus funds to pay for a year-long $219,000 study to follow female college students for a year to determine whether young women are more likely to ―hookup — the college equivalent of casual sex — after drinking
38. Recovering Crab Pots Lost At Sea ($700,000)
If all 4,000 pots are recovered as expected, the grantees will spend an average of $175 per crab pot, though John‘s Sporting Goods in nearby Everett, Washington sells new crab pots online for as little as $19.95.
50. Arizona Ants Work While Some Arizonans Remain Unemployed ($950,000)
Two major universities in the state are receiving a combined $950,000 to examine the division of labor in ant colonies
51. Study On Why Young Men Do Not Like Condoms ($221,355)
Indiana University professors received $221,355 in economic stimulus funds to study why young men do not like to wear condoms.
79. Money for Lighthouse Repairs on Uninhabited Island (Nearly $1.5 million)
MIND BOGGLING 100 HERE
80000 went to study the hairs on my balls, paid for by taxpayers, our government sure spends money wisely!
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I am curious,
ReplyDelete#1. Who owns the mall.
#33. Who's son needs a date or is it for a new course called "lay-ed scientists".
#79. Who owns the island?
This is exactly why My wife and i are moving out of the U.S. and A in the spring forever!
ReplyDeleteThese pay outs are not all that shocking to me. We have been paying out trillions every year from the Federal coffers for:
ReplyDeletePaying people who did not necessarily like the idea of working for a living. They chose to simply "Get it from Sam".
Paying people's rent who did not necessarily like the idea of working for a living. IE: Apartments catering to "Zero Income Tenants", or those who don't have any money because they did not necessarily like the idea of working for a living.
Paying people who are "disabled" and "unable" to work for a living, since that money is available for people who do not necessarily like the idea of working for a living. IE: "Doctor, I think I saw a spider in my office, and I cant emotionally cope with that so therefore I am disabled and you need to write that up so I can send it to the SSI people and begin drawing disability, OK?"
(I can draw X dollars a month which is not that much less than I can have a job and make---so why work"?) I dont necessarily like the idea of working for a living anyway.
I can have a herd of kids, be a single mother, and get free housing, food, utilities, and a raft of lots of other stuff, and I am going to go that route, as I dont necessarily like the idea of working for a living anyway.
And on, and all.
Sooooooo, why not study bug hairs? At least then we would know about bug hairs and get "something" for our money.
DISCLAIMER: This post DOES NOT include those actual legitimate people who HAVE WORKED, and are now in need of government help.
I hate to say it but even the HARD WORKING people are in a way at fault. Why? Because if everyone was thinking as hard as they were working to pay their bills and taxes then they would realize that the Federal Reserve was "the problem" and Ron Paul's END THE FED would go thru and be a good start to helping the USA.
ReplyDeleteSeveral Ideas:
1. Take money out of Bank and collapse banking system
2. Boycott buying things by massive numbers of people
3. Everyone refuse to pay federal income tax
Ideas 1 and 2 are legally safe for eveyone to do.
I think it comes down to Americans are used to the fraudulent and deceiving practices by the government. They are used to their scheming ways and they know NOBODY will do a thing about it. No protests, letters,uprisings, nada. As one poster stated stop paying taxes,withdraw all your money out of the banks and stop buying STUFF.
ReplyDeleteLet us remember that Americans are not born ignorant. They are made that way via the media's propaganda and government Rockefeller educational systems.
ReplyDeleteBrainwashed and deluded, oblivious to all the truths around them.
Like the poor retarded child in the back of the bus they sing along to Proud to be an American where at least I know I'm Free. Just sad.
If you want to see how compliant Americans are just look around the next time you are at a big outdoor venue. Chances are you will not see even ONE PERSON wearing a t-shirt that expresses any type of opinion (outside of sports). This was not the case just ten years ago.
ReplyDeleteNow we have been absorbed into the collective so to speak. If you have an opinion, right or wrong, outside of the collective you are a dangerous rebel.
I wore a Zeitgeist movement t-shirt to a beer festival. Many, many people commented to me about the movie but many also asked if I was afraid to wear that shirt. An anti-war shirt might get you assaulted by the police.
That is what we have become. Non thinkers. No real opinions that matter outside the tired pro-B.O., anti-B.O. diatribes.
The banksters have what they always dreamed about; a nation of compliant slaves.
The time period we are in now is the financial purgatory of Post Capitalism / Pre Fascism
ReplyDeleteSoon ye shall hear the drum and fife, and the call to Glory and Honor!
While I agree generally with the idea that most of these projects are a terrible waste, I want to point out that repairs to a lighthouse probably have less to do with the benefit to the island or who owns it and everything to do with preventing ships from hitting it in the night...still seems like a lot to spend on fixing a light.
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