Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has been ferreting out inane wastes of Public Monies by Govt.
NRCC has;
The Waste List > Total Value of
Government Waste: $18,224,377,097
WASTE: Old-fashioned
x-rays for prisoners - $1,300,000
WASTE: Alabama
Watermelon Queen Tour - $25,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-funded
booze - $99,000
WASTE: Mars
Menu - $947,000
WASTE: Book
vending machine - $35,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-funded
yacht engines - $489,000
WASTE: Government-backed
business loan losses - $3,400,000
WASTE: Luxurious
bus shelters - $388,000
WASTE: Cartoon
school receives $225,000 - $225,000
WASTE: Failed
Iraqi police training program - $400,000,000
WASTE: Circus
classes - $20,000
WASTE: Failed
healthy food initiative - $32,000,000
WASTE: Lego
city - $3,700
WASTE: Speed
reading faces - $30,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-subsidized
cupcakes - $2,000,000
WASTE: Climate
change musical - $697,177
WASTE: Fruit
fly sexual attractiveness study - $939,771
WASTE: Study
on Idaho firearm industry - $24,877
WASTE: Video
game controller design - $1,500,000
WASTE: Penny
production - $70,000,000
WASTE: Motorsports
museum - $300,000
WASTE: Sidewalks
to nowhere - $1,100,000
WASTE: Dancing
robots as iPhone disc jockeys - $547,430
WASTE: NASA
video games and entertainment programs - $1,600,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-funded
phone app - $1,000,000
WASTE: Unconstitutional
courthouse cameras - $500,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-funded
smartphone research - $1,300,000
WASTE: Professional
sports tax loopholes - $91,000,000
WASTE: Missile
Defense Agency’s research problems - $1,000,000,000
WASTE: Smokey
Bear balloons - $49,447
WASTE: USDA
caviar promotion - $300,000
WASTE: Alaskan
sightseeing trains - $38,800,000
WASTE: Unused
and outdated NASA database - $771,000
WASTE: Robot
Squirrels - $325,000
WASTE: Television
rerun study - $666,905
WASTE: Phantom
and unused grant account fees - $2,000,000
WASTE: Moroccan
pottery classes - $27,000,000
WASTE: College
anti-trash poster contest - $67,926
WASTE: Contracts
for trophies and typewriters - $24,000,000
WASTE: Electric
vehicle tax credit - $74,000,000
WASTE: Science
dollars wasted on Antarctica projects - $20,500,000
WASTE: Improper
food stamp payments - $4,500,000,000
WASTE: Paying
for veterans’ health care twice - $1,000,000,000
WASTE: Toy
exhibit - $150,000
WASTE: Identity
thieves steal billions from IRS - $3,900,000,000
WASTE: Another
bridge to nowhere - $520,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-funded
tour boat - $3,300,000
WASTE: Government-subsidized
cell phones - $1,500,000,000
WASTE: Talking
urinal cakes - $10,000
WASTE: Overseas
vacations for athletes - $5,500,000
WASTE: Government
overpays for products and services - $1,000,000,000
WASTE: Taxpayer
dollars go to a brewery - $750,970
WASTE: Vineyard
grape-growing subsidies - $1,500,000
WASTE: 100
Year Starship Initiative - $300,000
WASTE: Pentagon
weapons funds buy beef jerky - $700,000
WASTE: Unused
airport in Oklahoma - $450,000
WASTE: Medicaid
payments to tax evaders - $330,000,000
WASTE: Abuse
of college tax credits - $3,200,000,000
WASTE: Unnecessary
courthouse design - $322,000,000
WASTE: Medicaid
audit program costs more than it saves - $30,000,000
WASTE: Duplicate
magazine preservation - $270,000
WASTE: Job
contractors pay highest bidder - $4,600,000
WASTE: Old-fashioned
trolley car - $35,600,000
WASTE: Taxpayer-funded
potato chips - $49,990
WASTE: Video
game study on memory loss - $1,200,000
WASTE: Video
game festival - $50,000
WASTE: Black
liquor tax loophole - $268,000,000
Paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee
and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. www.nrcc.org
Unfortunately, the good Senator appears to have missed one:
because what it costs us to publicly fund NIMH to operate, at all, pales into insignificance compared to what it's actually costing us.
Have a look at just One of its revolting, public money paybacks:
Thank You Senator Coburn and NRCC
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