Biggest question in my mind....who bought the cocaine for the monkeys!!!!
The goverment is now funding our monkeys cocaine addictions!!
In all seriousness...wouldn't that be considered animal abuse? That's just cruel.
That's a lot of bogus programs that received my tax dollars. Not too sure that sits well with me. Although, I wouldn't mind walking across my new Microsoft bridge that I helped pay for.
Thanks for the info!!
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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. – Philippians 2:3-4
This is a partial list of places where the stimlus went. The absurdities include: $3.4 million for a turtle tunnel in Tallahassee, FL. A total of 22 bathrooms in Mark Twain National forest that carried a price tag of $21,000 each ($462,000 total). A genital-washing program in Africa that ran the taxpayers $800,000. Fifty-five thousand ($55,000) in Wichita, Kansas to spay and neuter pets. A total of $356,000 to research how children understand and perceive foreign accents. A whopping $550,000 for a skate park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. And finally, a bridge connecting two Microsoft campuses costing $11 million (like Microsoft can’t afford that themselves).Of course, this is not all of the ridiculous spending that was crammed into the stimulus bill. Other projects include $1.9 million used to photograph ants in foreign countries and $144,000 spent to study the behavior of monkeys on cocaine.
According to CBS News: Obama Administration economists say all the projects have valid goals, and the Recovery Act has put three million people back to work.---R.Hill
