The government sets a new low for wasting money
Too bad they didn’t ask me to do this job because I would only have charged $250,000. I’ll explain in a moment.
We all know that our government wastes obscene amounts of money every year, but until we hear exactly which ridiculous programs they’re wasting it on, it doesn’t always sink in. Here’s an example that will either make you laugh or cry, depending on your mood right now.
The National Science Foundation, which is funded by taxpayer dollars, just paid $300,000 for a study on how “humans interact with bicycles.” I wish I were making this up, but I’m afraid it’s true.
Apparently, officials from this government-run foundation believed researchers at the University of California-Davis when they pedaled their proposal that bicycle dynamics are poorly understood and they needed $300,000 to understand them better. As I mentioned, I would only have needed $250,000 to get the job done.
As Texas Representative Lamar Smith, chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, said that the study was unnecessary because the bicycle industry already spends nearly $65 billion a year into research.
You know what? Even if the bicycle industry did not spend anything on research, it still would be a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars to focus on things like this.
What’s your favorite story about government waste? Readers and I would love to hear about it.
Following Orders: While I was working in a Air Force Salvage yard, one day, I had to put brand new winter weather parkas in a shredder machine. Now where is the justification for Defense Spending? The military demands we spend every penny of out budget, because otherwise the budget will get cut by that amount. Never mind saving tax dollars.
What I would like to know is how to STOP all this NONSENSE, we are told to write or contact your State Representative but nothing is ever done!!! It seems it lands on deaf ears, and as always when election time rolls around they promise you THEY will do something about it BUT just VOTE for them into office once again… and so it goes all they do is find another idiotic study but this time it will cost MORE so whats the answer??????
I would like to know where to apply for one of these government handouts. I could use about $500000 to study where the government spends all the taxpayers money. Wouldn’t that be ironic?
Most of the politicians simply sign bills without reading them. Some other politician adds a line item to cover one of these studies or some other program that benefits somebody in there district so they can get reelected. If any politician stands up and asks about it they are told to “tow the party line” and just go along with it or some money won’t get diverted to some project they want to see funded. It’s all about buying votes.
I’ll bet that if I could show people where the money is wasted I could get a lot of votes.
Her is a ludicrous fact our government payed some university 150,000.00 to do a study of how many people would stop and pop bubble wrap that was hanging up on a wall board or by a phone while they passed the time reading the publications on the board or talking on the phone. We are a nation that waists so much money on stupid useless items and leaves the major problems alone to fix themselves and they can’t. Whats next America are we going to count how many pieces of toilet paper is needed when one goes to the toilet? Oh that’s right it been done by the military ! What next. Our Veterans need help our poor need help I mean the real poor not the lazy ones . We need to start taking care of the people of this country who have real problems and real issues .
Using citizens tax money to pay to kill/remove/abort the unborn & some are using the fetal tissue for scientific research & this is most likely to discover how to replace human employees with robotic machinery. What they don’t use scientifically is most likely used in some “Elite Delicacy” or in a “Black Mass Ritual” where the attendees eat the flesh & drink the blood of the innocent unborn in their satanic rituals to honor satan as a little god. I know how awful this reads as tears drop down my face, but it has become very apparent that the USA has turned closer & closer to the EVIL SIDE & it disgusts me but there is proof that the Satanists are taking over in all positions especially in our government. I pray that they that all who do such practices are discovered & our nation rids them from our society. Then prayerfully the USA returns to “One Nation Under God & In God We Trust”. As the Founding fathers worked so hard to create a FREE Nation & A God Fearing Nation. AMEN !!!
If the global climate shenanigan currently taking place in Paris actually bears fruit, it will embody one of the most colossal wastes of money ever perpetrated (and yes, it’s ALL ABOUT THE MONEY).
Billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money will be routed through the UN to the governments of “developing nations” so they can do what? So corrupt leaders can buy yachts? Sorry to be cynical, but how much would actually be used to benefit their economies to improve the lives of the poor? We would also be bound to compensate “developing nations” for extreme weather events. Because, don’cha know, every typhoon, flood, drought, freeze, etc., IS OUR FAULT.
It’s the Christmas season, so I can’t help being reminded of the gospel account of the Christmas story which begins: “There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED…”
Of course, there are signs that this climate conference will yield nothing but hot air (CO2 ?). For all our sakes I pray that it is so.
This government sure does waste a lot of money on stupid things. Another big waste is all these lavish vacation the Obama’s take at taxpayers expense. Most of us cant’ even afford to take a vacation anymore.
Can I grant GRANT from them to study the in sides of a beer can 1k should do it I may be able to build a better BEER CAN
Yup our Government Wants to Spend Money to Forcibly Relocate US CITIZENS in the Northern Marianas Islands of Tinian and Pagan ,US territory’s so the DEPT of DEFENCE can use the Islands as a HIGH INPACT BOMBING RANGE, WHO says you should not be SCARED OF YOUR GOVERNMENT
Dear Frank,
As always you bring up another provocative topic no one in government wants We the People to know about. Projects like this are pure cronyism gifts. Almost all the money goes into salaries for fat cats and kickbacks to the political whore who allow such nonsense!!!
We have a responsibility to write those bozo’s in Washington, every time we come across such ridiculous and wasteful projects.
I still want to know why agencies (with only a limited law enforcement division) such as the USDA, IRS, USP, FEMA and others continue buying up more rounds of ammo per year, that our soldiers discharged during the invasion of Iraq!!! I have written letters to my rep’s, senators and the president asking for an explanation … and have never received a single response.
I’m sure that put me on some sort of covert “watch list” but, I’m too old to care.
God Bless our troops and God Save America.
Your friend,
Orrin
Just saw on tv where Bill Clinton has gotten $16,000,000 of our tax dollars since leaving office. That’s over $1,000,000 a year.
Don’t you think this ammounts appears ridiculous compared to the really collosal waste of taxpayer dollars in army and military industry that corncern americans and inhabitants around the globe?. Isn’t it a nonsense expense in the ” killing people industry”?
Let’s keep the military and do away with the EPA, the IRS, the FBI, CIA,and all other outlandish and illegal federal organizations, and their armed enforcers. And send the darn corrupt UN packing!
Let’s do away with the (unConstitutional) Federal standing army and send defense back to the States where it belongs, where the people are more interested in defending their borders than meddling in everybody else’s business.
I wonder if the Government will do a study on the balancing act of humans and their equilibrium’s. If we can get a Senator, State Representative, or other government employee to sit on their thumb as they rotate in a clockwise manner while humming “Yankee Doodle” will be worth 300K study. I bet that if we make these individual(s) repay the government for the stupidity of their studies I guess these crooks and scam artist wouldn’t even bother with their so called requests.
that just in the past gov wast on toilet seats , coffee makers ,the study on eggs how to make them easyer to crack
OMG, YES I agree with you !! Just yesterday my husband and I were talking about those STUPID studies like “how fast do a mouse’s toenails grow?” They have so many of these going on, draining what’s left of the tax-payers MONEY.
I’d like to know who approves these things anyway???