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| 30 Things the Goverment Spends Money On | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 4 2013, 06:00 PM (54 Views) | |
| Vagabond | Jan 4 2013, 06:00 PM Post #1 |
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#1 The U.S. government is spending $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. #2 The Obama administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master’s degrees. #3 If you can believe it, the U.S. government has spent $175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”. #4 The U.S. government spent $200,000 on “a tattoo removal program” in Mission Hills, California. #5 The federal government has shelled out $3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as World of Warcraft. Wouldn’t we all love to have a “research job” like that? #6 The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that “can’t sit still” in a kindergarten classroom. #7 Fannie Mae is about to ask the federal government for another $4.6 billion bailout, and it will almost certainly get it. #8 The federal government once spent 30 million dollars on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos. #9 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once gave researchers at the University of New Hampshire $700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows. #10 According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies “fund 209 different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs — and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program.” #11 A total of $615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to digitize photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead. #12 China lends us more money than any other foreign nation, but that didn’t stop our government from spending 17.8 million dollars on social and environmental programs for China. #13 The U.S. government once spent 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly. #14 One professor at Stanford University was given $239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love. #15 The U.S. Postal Service spent $13,500 on a single dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. #16 The National Science Foundation once spent $216,000 to study whether or not politicians “gain or lose support by taking ambiguous positions”. #17 A total of $1.8 million was spent on a “museum of neon signs” in Las Vegas, Nevada. #18 The federal government spends 25 billion dollars a year maintaining federal buildings that are either unused or totally vacant. #19 U.S. farmers are given a total of $2 billion each year for not farming their land. #20 The U.S. government handed one Tennessee library $5,000 for the purpose of hosting a series of video game parties. #21 A few years ago the government spent $123,050 on a Mother’s Day Shrine in Grafton, West Virginia. It turns out that Grafton only has a population of a little more than 5,000 people. #22 One professor at Dartmouth University was given $137,530 to create a “recession-themed” video game entitled “Layoff”. #23 According to the Heritage Foundation, the U.S. military spent “$998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida”. #24 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once shelled out $30,000 to a group of farmers to develop a tourist-friendly database of farms that host guests for overnight “haycations”. #25 The National Institutes of Health paid researchers $400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk. #26 The National Institutes of Health also once spent $442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam. #27 The National Institutes of Health loves to spend our tax money on really bizarre things. The NIH once spent $800,000 in “stimulus funds” to study the impact of a “genital-washing program” on men in South Africa. #28 According to the Washington Post, 1,271 different government organizations work on government programs related to counterterrorism and homeland security. #29 The U.S. government spent $100,000 on a “Celebrity Chef Fruit Promotion Road Show in Indonesia”. #30 The feds once gave Alaska Airlines $500,000 “to paint a Chinook salmon” on the side of a Boeing 737. SOURCE Edited by Vagabond, Jan 5 2013, 09:24 PM.
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