Posted on 12/11/2009 6:29:31 AM PST by Wolf13
It sounds like the lead in to a bad joke: What do a Chicago-based dinner cruise company, a study of libidinous female college students and a former Hillary Clinton advisor have in common?
But the joke is on us, because each of the above has been awarded hefty doses of taxpayer-funded stimulus money since February, according to a new stimulus report card by Senators Tom Coburn and John McCain.
In his “jobs speech” this week, President Obama implicitly acknowledged that last February’s $1.2 trillion stimulus package has failed. Then he demanded another one in order to bolster his plan to “spend our way out of this recession.”
But given the failure of the first stimulus highlighted by wasteful spending unearthed in the new Coburn-McCain report, as well as the stifling deficits the Obama administration is already running, more government spending will mean more debt, more waste and more unemployment.
Titled “Stimulus Checkup,” the Coburn-McCain report exposes 100 projects paid for by February’s stimulus package they claim wasted at least $7 billion.
Some of the most egregious items include $5 million for alternative energy in a mostly empty shopping mall in Tennessee, and $1.6 million for fossil research in Argentina for Penn State University.
A dinner cruise company based in Chicago received nearly $1 million in funds to combat terrorism, and $100,000 was spent for a socially conscious puppet shows in Minnesota.
The State University of New York at Buffalo won $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana, and the National Institutes of Health got $219,000 in funds to study whether female college students are more likely to “hook up” after drinking alcohol.
There’s even $30,000 to study how methamphetamines affect the sex drive of female rats.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
This is one of those times when McCain is improved by hanging out with the right people. God Bless Senator Coburn.
What a bragain!
The puppet show in DC has cost us trillions!
“There’s even $30,000 to study how methamphetamines affect the sex drive of female rats.”
Where’s PETA on this one?? Poor rats’ teeth will fall out and they’ll never get out of rehab.
*ping*
Wow, they're not even trying to sugarcoat this load of horse$#*&! Just another testament of arrogance from this administration.
That there is downright funny!
...given the failure of the first stimulus highlighted by wasteful spending unearthed in the new Coburn-McCain report, as well as the stifling deficits the Obama administration is already running, more government spending will mean more debt, more waste and more unemployment.Thanks hennie pennie.
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