Is this right..$764,825 tax money to study college students cell phone use?

[healthmyths]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

 

[healthmyths]

Is there any wonder those 53% that pay Federal taxes are just a little pissed when they hear ignorant people want them to pay MORE for "

• Almost $800,000 of federal taxpayer funds went to subsidize ―
pancakes for yuppies‖ in the nation‘s capital.

• The federal government sent an average of $120 million in retirement & disability
payments to deceased former federal employees every year
for at least the past 5 years.

I mean really and Democrats and Obama especially..( well wait Obama's spending $4 million for his Hawaii vacation!!!) can't find a way to cut this foolish spending???

 

[konradv]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Is there any wonder those 53% that pay Federal taxes are just a little pissed when they hear ignorant people want them to pay MORE for "

• Almost $800,000 of federal taxpayer funds went to subsidize ―
pancakes for yuppies‖ in the nation‘s capital.

• The federal government sent an average of $120 million in retirement & disability
payments to deceased former federal employees every year
for at least the past 5 years.

I mean really and Democrats and Obama especially..( well wait Obama's spending $4 million for his Hawaii vacation!!!) can't find a way to cut this foolish spending???

Easy, fire him and all the socialists.

 

[healthmyths]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

Again.. here is the study from Senator Coburn and you make your picks which are taken out of context!!
Seriously you have NO problem with the general concept there is at least some of these are totally stupid?

I tried attaching the study but it was too large.. you can get it here..
Dr. Coburn Releases New Report on Wasteful Government Spending in 2011: "Wastebook 2011" - Press Releases - Tom Coburn, M.D., United States Senator from Oklahoma

 

[healthmyths]

Folks I thought I had attached the Coburn report but it was too big.
Here is the link..

Dr. Coburn Releases New Report on Wasteful Government Spending in 2011: "Wastebook 2011" - Press Releases - Tom Coburn, M.D., United States Senator from Oklahoma

 

[konradv]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

Again.. here is the study from Senator Coburn and you make your picks which are taken out of context!!
Seriously you have NO problem with the general concept there is at least some of these are totally stupid?

I tried attaching the study but it was too large.. you can get it here..
Dr. Coburn Releases New Report on Wasteful Government Spending in 2011: "Wastebook 2011" - Press Releases - Tom Coburn, M.D., United States Senator from Oklahoma

I have a problem with YOUR concept that they're all totally stupid. It reminds of the time when someone complained about a study that looked at the eyesight of pigeons, asking why we'd even care. That just shows how foolish those complaints can be, because it wasn't pigeons per se being studied, but vision in general with hopes of future applications in human health. It jst goes to show how these kinds of lists are more political than informational.

 

[ladyliberal]

I think the topic of studying how college students phone, email, text, social network, and make online purchases is well worth a $760,000 NSF grant. The notion that every individual research project supported in whole or in part by taxpayer money has to describe a direct benefit to the taxpayer is grossly anti-science.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

Of course you would, of course you would.

 

[Mr Natural]

That's almost as much as we pissed away on the Iraq Fiasco.

 

[Jarhead]

I think the topic of studying how college students phone, email, text, social network, and make online purchases is well worth a $760,000 NSF grant. The notion that every individual research project supported in whole or in part by taxpayer money has to describe a direct benefit to the taxpayer is grossly anti-science.

During prosperous times?
I would agree.

But during times like these where those dollars can be put toward the debt...or perhaps put to winter coats for children whose parents are unemployed and barely making ends meet?

I find that repulsive in the least.

 

[Jarhead]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

So you prefer your tax dollars to go to the remaking of Sesame street for Pakistan as opposed to going to those poor homeless people with their children walking the streets of Chicago?

Why do you hate the poor people of America?

 

[konradv]

• $113,227 for video game preservation center in New York.

• $550,000 for a documentary about how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• $48,700 for 2nd annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival, to promote Hawaii’s chocolate industry.

• $350,000 to support an International Art Exhibition in Venice, Italy.

• $10 million for a remake of “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.

• $764,825 to study how college students use mobile devices for social networking.

These are just a few.. of how $6.9 billion of your tax money was spent.

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

So you prefer your tax dollars to go to the remaking of Sesame street for Pakistan as opposed to going to those poor homeless people with their children walking the streets of Chicago?

Why do you hate the poor people of America?

You really want to give that $6.9 to the "poor people of America"? How long will it take me to search and find where they've been called "free-loaders". Nice try, but I'm not falling for your hypocritical come-ons.

 

[Inthemiddle]

After all that effort, the man came up with $6.5 billion of waste. Well, good job, I guess. Let's defund all of that. But after all that time and effort, he's come up with less than .002% of total government expenditures. Obama has cut more than that with a few executive orders.

 

[Jarhead]

Cherry-picking a list is easy and without additional info some items can be made to look foolish without being so. I'd need a more comprehensive list and justifications to make an informed decision.

So you prefer your tax dollars to go to the remaking of Sesame street for Pakistan as opposed to going to those poor homeless people with their children walking the streets of Chicago?

Why do you hate the poor people of America?

You really want to give that $6.9 to the "poor people of America"? How long will it take me to search and find where they've been called "free-loaders". Nice try, but I'm not falling for your hypocritical come-ons.

hey...I dare you to find one post of mine saying that we should eliminate welfare, foodstamps or unemployment.

Find one post.

You wont be able to.

SO get off your high fucking horse and be a man and debate.....

 

[Jarhead]

After all that effort, the man came up with $6.5 billion of waste. Well, good job, I guess. Let's defund all of that. But after all that time and effort, he's come up with less than .002% of total government expenditures. Obama has cut more than that with a few executive orders.

First off...it was not much work I am sure..

Second.....shouldnt you be more curious as to the mindset of the stimulus authors if, in fact, during a great time of need in this country, 6.5 billion was slated for what the OP cited?

Or are you one of those that wants to discredit the nay sayers as opposed to looking at the validity of what is being said?

 

[Inthemiddle]

Second.....shouldnt you be more curious as to the mindset of the stimulus authors if, in fact, during a great time of need in this country, 6.5 billion was slated for what the OP cited?

Or are you one of those that wants to discredit the nay sayers as opposed to looking at the validity of what is being said?

I'm not really curious at all, because it changes nothing to me. The stimulus should have never happened. Bringing this up does nothing to change that fact for me. At best, it reemphasizes what I already knew, which is that Pelosi and Reid are idiots. But it's all in the past. Let's move on. Defund the programs. But let's not forget that at the end of the day, this is piss on a wild fire.

 

[Jarhead]

Second.....shouldnt you be more curious as to the mindset of the stimulus authors if, in fact, during a great time of need in this country, 6.5 billion was slated for what the OP cited?

Or are you one of those that wants to discredit the nay sayers as opposed to looking at the validity of what is being said?

I'm not really curious at all, because it changes nothing to me. The stimulus should have never happened. Bringing this up does nothing to change that fact for me. At best, it reemphasizes what I already knew, which is that Pelosi and Reid are idiots. But it's all in the past. Let's move on. Defund the programs. But let's not forget that at the end of the day, this is piss on a wild fire.

you dont get it.

Those same people are still writing our laws.

It is not in the past....they are still with us.

 

[Inthemiddle]

Second.....shouldnt you be more curious as to the mindset of the stimulus authors if, in fact, during a great time of need in this country, 6.5 billion was slated for what the OP cited?

Or are you one of those that wants to discredit the nay sayers as opposed to looking at the validity of what is being said?

I'm not really curious at all, because it changes nothing to me. The stimulus should have never happened. Bringing this up does nothing to change that fact for me. At best, it reemphasizes what I already knew, which is that Pelosi and Reid are idiots. But it's all in the past. Let's move on. Defund the programs. But let's not forget that at the end of the day, this is piss on a wild fire.

you dont get it.

Those same people are still writing our laws.

It is not in the past....they are still with us.

So, don't vote for them next time....

 

[healthmyths]

That's almost as much as we pissed away on the Iraq Fiasco.

Right.. I am sure you were one of the

Plan to keep your health plan? Don't count on it | Washington Examiner

It is too often forgotten, not least by historians, that George W. Bush did not invent the idea of deposing the Iraqi tyrant. For years before he came on the scene, removing Saddam Hussein had been a priority embraced by the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton and by Clinton’s most vocal supporters in the Senate:

Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas, or biological weapons. . . . Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: he has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. . . . I have no doubt today that, left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again.

These were the words of President Clinton on the night of December 16, 1998 as he announced a four-day bombing campaign over Iraq. Only six weeks earlier, Clinton had signed the Iraq Liberation Act authorizing Saddam’s overthrow—an initiative supported unanimously in the Senate and by a margin of 360 to 38 in the House. “Iraqis deserve and desire freedom,” Clinton had declared. On the evening the bombs began to drop, Vice President Al Gore told CNN’s Larry King:

You allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons. How many people is he going to kill with such weapons? . . . We are not going to allow him to succeed. [emphasis added]
Why Iraq Was Inevitable « Commentary Magazine