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Originally Posted by billms
So your belief is that democrats want to spend money as an end to itself. I've heard that before. Frankly I think its as nutty as the wealth redistribution canard.
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I'm just saying. Frankly I think it's all politicians that want to spend money as an end to itself. If they aren't spending money, especially money that benefits their constituents, or that they believe benefits them, they don't have a job. It's pretty easy to spend other people's money. You really don't think they spend it as an end to itself?
Here's a list for you. Tell me they aren't spending just to spend. Because no operation that has true accountablility would ever spend money like this (my favorites are bolded - I especially love the consumer seafood study - couldn't Red Lobster have done that themselves?)
$107,000 to study the sex life of the Japanese quail.
$1.2 million to study the breeding habits of the woodchuck.
$150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
$84,000 to find out why people fall in love.
$1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to work.
$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.
$144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws.
Funds to study the cause of rudeness on tennis courts and examine smiling patterns in bowling alleys.
$219,000 to teach college students how to watch television.
$2 million to construct an ancient Hawaiian canoe.
$20 million for a demonstration project to build wooden bridges.
$160,000 to study if you can hex an opponent by drawing an X on his chest.
$800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley.
$100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft.
$16,000 to study the operation of the komungo, a Korean stringed instrument.
$1 million to preserve a sewer in Trenton, NJ, as a historic monument.
$6,000 for a document on Worcestershire sauce.
$10,000 to study the effect of naval communications on a bull's potency.
$100,000 to research soybean-based ink.
$1 million for a Seafood Consumer Center.
$57,000 spent by the Executive Branch for gold-embossed playing cards on Air Force Two.
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