Anyone who knows me is well aware of my radically centrist political views (har har paradox). So I just want to put it out there for those who DON'T know me very well, that I am neither a Republican or a Democrat. This is because both sides of our pathetic excuse for a government tend to routinely piss me off by doing radically stupid things. And at present its the asses of Washington (Democrats, har har pun) that are pissing me off.
I got this link from a friend of mine, the actual website that these statistics are from is posted below. This is essentially a list of things that your trillions of tax payer dollars that didn't exist until November of 2008 are being spent on. As the blog put it, "feeling stimulated yet"?
This is from a Republican site, written by Senators John McCain of Arizona and Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. As well, this list is basically being copied from a right-wing blog. So feel free to question this information in and of itself (for most of what politicians tell you these days absolutely should be), but if it is indeed true, and not just some hoaxed stats created to make the Dems look bad (as if they needed any help), then I personally would like to offer President Obama and his administration, as well as Congress and pretty much all of Washington D.C. a hardy go fuck yourself.
Enjoy (and cringe, if need be):
http://annoyedelephants.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/feelin-stimulated-yet/
$30,000 to study how methamphetamines affect the sex drives of rats.
$221,355 to study why young men don’t like condoms.
$219,000 to study the “hookup behavior” of female college coeds
$59,900,000 to upgrade computers for the California State Government…. that were upgraded 4 years ago
$564,635 for Duke U. students to go on a summer trip to Costa Rica
$1,200,000 for a Horse Museum in Kentucky
$50,000,000 for fish food
$122,000 for fish art
$1,300,000 for signs that say “Recovery.gov”
$100,000 to remodel a Martini Bar and a Brazilian Steakhouse, both in Missouri
$831,700 for the Lone Tree Golf Course in Antioch, CA to use recycled water.
$117,000,000 for a building makeover of the IRS building in Andover, MA that’s slated to be closed.
$88,000 to repave a road in Atlanta, GA that was re-paved in 2007.
$389,000 to study marijuana and malt liquor use by Buffalo, NY residents
$100,000 to fund anti-capitalist puppet shows
$1,570,000 to find fossil fuels… in Argentina
$350,000,000 to develop a map for a government website that shows broadband availability… that will be obsolete by the time it goes online.
$54,000,000 for a wine train for tourists in CA
$1,900,000,000 to cover costs of a failed cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Site.
$2,000,000 to extend a Tourist Train in Nevada
$4,700,000 to research and develop supersonic corporate jets.
$5,900,000 to an advertising agency to promote the DTV changeover. Created 3 jobs. For 39 days.
$133,000,000 to renovate a Federal Building in Oregon. A new Federal Building in California recently cost $144 mil to build from scratch.
$5,000,000 to develop a geothermal heating plan for a mall in Oak Ridge, TN that’s “almost empty”.
$8,000,000 to build a wastewater treatment center in Oregon – for tourists!
$272,000,000 for improvements at FAA-designated “low-priority” airports.
$15,000 for a storytelling festival in Utah.
$1,100,000 to “beautify” Hollywood, CA’s Sunset Strip. Yes, the same one in tons of movies.
$30,000,000 to Defense Dept. contractors suspended for suspicion of fraud
$1,300,000,000 for Amtrak, which is currently losing $32 per passenger as people use “cars” and “airplanes” more.
$2,000,000 for a new fire station in Truckee, NV. Problem: they have no fire fighters.
$25,000 for Sykesville, MD. They don’t know why.
$935,000 for a dance troupe to weatherize homes in DC.
$255,000,000 for ARC – a government-backed small business loan organization that expects a 65% default rate.
$75,129 for Paragould, AR to purchase iPod Touches for children.
$49,818 and 53,940 lbs of carbon to send 11 people from Alaska to the Copenhagen Global Warming Conference going on right now.
$800,000 for an Ohio town to create a zone where trains can’t blow their whistles.
$90,000 to teach people to cooperate by watching birds.
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$1,300,000 for signs that say "Recovery.gov"
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$5,900,000 to an advertising agency to promote the DTV changeover. Created 3 jobs for 39 days.
This is just outrageous. If I was Obama, I would just give all that money to DopeStats. Why would they allow spending on something as useless as DTV? It should be useless to the government because the public naturally advances to those things on its own. If you don't believe me and want proof, then I say Moore's Law dictates a linear growth in the capabilities of electronics, therefore, things get cheaper every few years, and so on. Moore's law doesn't take into account any government spending towards technological advances. Our government just needs to keep funding the bright people that work hard to acheive those luxuries. The business men and women, the scientists, and so on. People are first priority, and many don't even have jobs and have lost their homes. The more for people, the better. And oh yeah, there's always the losing Drug War which seems to have faded out of context. You spend that much on a marijuana study, and yet there's BILLIONS being spent on marijuana prohibiton?! Wow... here is a cheap way to raise drug use awareness http://www.dopestats.com
At least DopeStats will keep the junkies happy and the concerned up-to-date. But no one visits the site in comparison to recovery.gov. It doesn't take a genious to figure out that there will always be the curious out there who will try drugs. Always!
..But apparently it takes one to stop spending tax dollar on the impossible to win Drug War. Containment just hides the truth. Parents out there, you should know that and tell your kids. After all we learn much better when we're young, at least they are informed and may not be as curious.
People always are curious over what is hidden from them. If the truth was put out there from the beginning, the government would have a lot less of a "war" to fight.
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