The Coburn Report is out and here are the highlights of the Worst Waste of 2008 which includes more than $1.3 BILLION (Please let me say that again for anyone that didn’t see it the first time $1.3 BILLION) in frivolous grants, Pet Projects and other RIDICULOUS SPENDING:
Here the highlights of the worst waste of 2008.
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, today released the oversight report “2008: Worst Waste of the Year.” The look back on 2008 features absurd federal spending from beltway bureaucrats and elected officials.
“As we look back on federal spending for 2008, American taxpayers will laugh, and then cry at how their elected officials spent their hard-earned dollars. Not even these tough economic times have dulled Congress’ ability to find new and creative ways to waste taxpayer dollars,” Dr. Coburn said.
Examples of waste in 2008 include:
• $188,000 for Lobster Institute in Maine, home of the “LobsterCam”
(This could be good if you add some lemon and butter)
• $1 million for bike paths on Louisiana levees while levees await basic repairs
(Look at the bright side… If the levees do break there would be just that many less BIKE
FREAKS on the roads!)
(Look at the bright side… If the levees do break there would be just that many less BIKE
FREAKS on the roads!)
• $2.4 million for a retractable shade canopy at a park in West Virginia
(Why not plant a tree? Or at least wait until the end of summer sale at Wal-
Mart and get it for half the original price…)
(Why not plant a tree? Or at least wait until the end of summer sale at Wal-
Mart and get it for half the original price…)
• $24.6 million for the National Park Service’s 100th year birthday in 2016 - 8 years early
(Well shit fire! No wonder there have been so many forest fires! Who wants 8 years add to their
age?)
age?)
• $3.2 million on a blimp the Pentagon does not want
(It could fly over football games and tax payers can look up and see their tax
Dollars hard at work.)
(It could fly over football games and tax payers can look up and see their tax
Dollars hard at work.)
• $367,000 wasted by a Texas school board on items like an inflatable alligator and under-the-sea waterslide, among other things
(Why not? Why encourage learning. Don’t want the children of this country smarter then the
U.S. CONGRESS!!!!)
• $5 million for a bridge to a zoo parking lot in St. Louis
(So that’s what happen to the bridge to no where!)
Sorry but these last two are just too easy even for a blonde…• $9,000 for a non-functioning airplane-shaped gas station in Tennessee • $300,000 for specialty potatoes for high-end restaurants “The waste highlighted in this report is only a fraction of the more than $385 billion the federal government throws away every year through waste, fraud and duplication. Yet, each example in this report is a snapshot that tells a larger story, just as the Bridge to Nowhere justifiably became a symbol of the corrupting nature of earmarks. The story the American people already understand is that Congress’ inability to make common sense decisions about spending priorities is putting our children’s future at risk. Until Congress abandons the short-term parochialism that gives us LobsterCams and inflatable alligators, we will never get a handle on the major economic challenges facing this country,” Dr. Coburn said.
U.S. CONGRESS!!!!)
• $5 million for a bridge to a zoo parking lot in St. Louis
(So that’s what happen to the bridge to no where!)
Sorry but these last two are just too easy even for a blonde…• $9,000 for a non-functioning airplane-shaped gas station in Tennessee • $300,000 for specialty potatoes for high-end restaurants “The waste highlighted in this report is only a fraction of the more than $385 billion the federal government throws away every year through waste, fraud and duplication. Yet, each example in this report is a snapshot that tells a larger story, just as the Bridge to Nowhere justifiably became a symbol of the corrupting nature of earmarks. The story the American people already understand is that Congress’ inability to make common sense decisions about spending priorities is putting our children’s future at risk. Until Congress abandons the short-term parochialism that gives us LobsterCams and inflatable alligators, we will never get a handle on the major economic challenges facing this country,” Dr. Coburn said.
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