They Spent Taxpayer Money on What?!!


Monday February 6th, 2012   •   Posted by Stephanie Freedman at 3:22pm PST   •  

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It’s easy to spend money on frivolous�projects, when it’s not your money to spend. CBN News Washington Sr. Correspondent Paul Strand�exposes�various wasteful spending initiatives that makes one question, who even thinks of these things? Some of these projects are extremely creative, I will give Washington that much.

  • More 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.
  • 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.


Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate cowboy�poetry�as much as the next guy. But with the nation coming up on a $15 trillion dollar debt, it is definitely something I can live without, as far as taxpayer funding goes.




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