Is the Federal Government Good Stewards to Our Tax Dollars?
Question by Taylor: Is the Federal Government good stewards to our tax dollars?
Just the tip of the iceberg…
16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master’s degrees.
$ 175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”.
$ 3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as World of Warcraft
$ 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.
2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.
Stanford University was given $ 239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love.
$ 1.8 million was spent on a “museum of neon signs” in Las Vegas, Nevada
25 billion dollars a year maintaining federal buildings that are either unused or totally vacant.
Dartmouth University was given $ 137,530 to create a “recession-themed” video game entitled “Layoff”.
$ 400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk.
And my Personal Favorite !!
$ 800,000 in “stimulus funds” to study the impact of a “genital-washing program” on men in South Africa.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-stupid-things-the-governemnt-is-spending-money-on
Best answer:
Answer by jsbobo36
i mean honestly at this point we should just go back to the old system when the Federal government had to ask states for permission to take tax money
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