Government Outrage of the Day

[don webb]

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After a question asked in another thread, to keep it cleaned up, I値l start this where anyone can post his or her Government Outrage of the DAY on our Spend-O-Thon Government.

I値l start with these:


ｷ For the last ten years, our government spending has skyrocketed thanks to George Bush.

ｷ Congress votes to increase the debt ceiling.

ｷ Then Obama gets into office and spends more in his first few months than all other presidents combined.

ｷ Congress needs to increase the debt ceiling, but Democrats don't want to get blamed.

ｷ Democrats attach the vote on the increase to a Defense spending bill to fund the troops in Afghanistan (a hot issue at the moment).

ｷ The Democrats try to downplay the issue of increase so as to not spark public outrage.

ｷ The Republicans say they don't want to vote for the bill because of the increase.

ｷ The Democrats say that the Republicans don't want to support the troops.

ｷ The Republicans end up voting for the bill anyway.

ｷ Election time rolls around, and Democrats use the vote against Republicans saying that they voted to increase the debt limit to a whopping $13 trillion (neglecting to mention the fact that the increase was attached to a bill to fund the troops because the Democrats manipulated it that way).

Isn't this fun, folks? ........:beerchug:

Thanks Neal Boortz

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[don webb]

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Millions Spent to Send Professors on Vacation

As if the life of a college professor weren't easy enough, millions of taxpayer dollars are going to fund monthlong vacations for sightseeing scholars in Europe and South America, part of the $144 million budget provided for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Government watchdogs say those trips are a waste of taxpayer money, and they're not alone on an eye-popping list of NEH funding for projects, including:


$400,000 for an exhibition "exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for noted American poet Emily Dickinson"

$350,000 to explore the "cultural significance of the circus poster"

$725,000 to produce a two-hour documentary on the history of American whaling.

$130,000 for 16 professors to study the "truth and meaning" of life according to Aristotle

$50,000 to build a computer model of an ancient city in Pakistan complete with "animated and interactive 'inhabitants'


Taxpayer dollars also pay to produce dozens of movies and videos, including:


$390,000 to produce a 30-minute TV movie about Christopher Columbus and the Santa Maria

$625,000 for a video biography of American painter James Whistler

$600,000 for a movie about starvation in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s

$511,000 for a documentary about an interracial medical team in the South


Critics say that with people losing their jobs and houses in the struggling economy, Americans shouldn't be taxed to cover non-essential projects.

"Sending academics abroad may be important for the academicians and their careers, but maybe a little bit less so when it comes to the federal budget and the taxpayer dollars," said Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union.

"Everybody should be angry ... that federal taxpayer dollars are being used on projects at a time when we have such bigger priorities, like getting the national debt under control," said Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/23/tracking-taxes-millions-spent-send-professors-vacation/?test=latestnews

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