Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has released his annual report, “The Wastebook,” which he calls “a compilation of about $30 billion of stupidity, incompetence, and waste” by the federal government.
Here are some of the “greatest hits” from Coburn’s 2013 Wastebook report:
#1. $390 thousand to NASA to create a cartoon superhero – “Green Ninja” – to teach children about “global warming”
#2. $1.5 billion to keep the lights on in unused and underutilized federal buildings
#3. $5 million for customized crystal stemware
#4. $7 billion dollars of military equipment being destroyed because troops are being pulled out of Afghanistan
#5. $1 million on the Popular Romance Project website, displaying: “True Romance that celebrated movies, books and pop songs“
Some of the recent Popular Romance Project website topics include [from the Wastebook]:
Team Edward or Team Jacob?
- “Are heroes like Edward romantic or controlling?” ponders the Popular Romance Project website, referring to the vampire character in Twilight.
Call Me Maybe:
- The Popular Romance Project website celebrates Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit song “Call Me Maybe” as a “fun, flirty invitation to a dreamy crush” and examines how the song’s video has provoked some “very interesting conversations about contemporary romance.”
#7. $3 million to NASA employees to attend seminars on how Congress works
#8. $626 thousand to Justice Department employees so they could use travel agents instead of booking flights online
#9. Government Study Finds Out Wives Should Calm Down – (NIH $325,525)
This study is probably going to make people’s wives even agrier. Thanks, government!Have you lost it, yet? Hope not, because this is one of my faves:
#10. $385 thousand to research projects that study duck penises
Yeah, your tax dollars hard at work, America. God help us.
This article was edited after publication.
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