Senator Coburns annual government waste report includes money for a campaign to encourage people to eat caviar research on whether quick glances of a persons face can reveal whether or not they are gay and a musical about biodiversity and climate change.
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) issued his annual report on government waste this week. Entitled Wastebook 2012" it compiles 100 of the most egregious ways taxpayers money is being squandered. Coburn awards Congress the well-deserved but unwanted distinction as the biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2012."
The frivolities that taxpayers money has been spent on are so silly they are easy to poke fun at. Coburn refers to NASA spending $1 million to develop a menu of food to eat on Mars as Out-of-this-world Martian food tasting." $325000 for construction of a robotic squirrel for observing its interaction with snakes is described as When robot squirrels attack."
The types of government waste are all over the spectrum. Nothing is too wasteful to exclude for this Congress. There is another bridge to nowhere a sidewalk to nowhere indirect subsidies to professional sports and awarding of contracts to the highest bidders instead of the lowest bidders.
The massive abuse of food stamps is exposed. They are being used to purchase alcohol Burger King soap operas Starbucks frappuccinos cigarettes and cars. Some recipients received additional food stamps because they smoked marijuana. An exotic dancer who made $80000 in tips annually spending $9000 on cosmetic enhancements" also collected $1000 a month in food stamps. 2000 dead people are still receiving food stamps.
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