Yesterday's Facebook browsing yielded a tip from Tim Nobles to check out Susan Ferrechio's priceless (pun quite intended) list of items that your tax dollars are paying for -- thanks to Barack Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party.The article can be read in full (and should be) in the Washington Examiner.
But I'll print here just a few of my favorites.
"The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:"
* $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
* $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.
* $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.
* $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.
* $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.
* $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.
* $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.
* $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.
* $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.
* $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.
Guys, these aren't jokes. Well, okay; they are jokes. But they're also all too real. As is the economic crisis in the United States because we've turned our country over to loons.
The specific items above, as the Examiner article points out, come from documented news reports and from the office of Sen. Tom Coburn. Please use them in letters to editors and urge your friends to do likewise.
