Posted on 12/25/2023 7:23:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s that time of year again! Time to celebrate the birth of Jesus, gather with family and friends, make gingerbread houses, go Christmas caroling, play in the snow, and… remind yourself how much your government absolutely hates you.
Don’t forget, every holiday season is also time for Rand Paul’s annual Festivus Report, and this year, for the ninth report, Paul highlighted nine hundred billion dollars in waste by the Festivites; from Paul’s opening segment:
This year, I am highlighting a whopping ~$900,000,000,000 of waste, including an NIH grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill, Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds, $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and $200 million to ‘struggling artists’ like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne.
Yes, you read that right. Our (literally) good-for-nothing government got us scammed out of our hard-earned money by pictures of knock-off Barbie dolls and AI-generated freakshows. See the pathetically unpassable images below, that could only be verified as “legitimate” recipients by the stupidest and most feckless Festivites on the planet:
Without gooberment, who would approve Barbie dolls for welfare? 🥴
Meet some of the recipients of COVID "relief" money. pic.twitter.com/jzZOF9KfzV — Olivia Murray (@americaliv1) December 25, 2023
Naturally, Festivites entered government because that’s the only environment that props up and feeds non-producers, but this latest crop took things to the next level—they bought themselves a restaurant industry-sized lobster tank.
Yes, the same people who are banning our small household appliances, and demanding we lower our standard of living and forgo modern amenities to stop a climate “emergency,” are buying massive pieces of kitchen equipment so they can dine on fresh lobster.
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Senator Paul would make a great vice-president.
Agreed
+1
Rand Paul is arguably the most principled person in government at present.
Waste of his talents. Being a VP is an useless position unless you become the POTUS like Harry Truman.
Until there are consequences for deficits, iit will never stop. Lawmakers don’t give a damn.
Pffft. Not even a trillion dollars.
/s
I bought a book that showed the vast waste back in 1977.
I read a book that was similar that my grandfather had bought in 1946.
I bet there are clay tablets describing the waste in building the pyramids and other projects of the ancient past.
In short nothing changes but the names.
How good is that for the rest of us?
What are these miserable pieces of excrement doing to CATS? Russian cats? And all the rest of these useless pork barrel wastes of money, to fund the pro-Hamas lunatics on university campuses?
Bkmk
$900 billion? That’s just the blackmail payoff to Ukraine isn’t it?
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