- Sep 19, 2011
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Your tax dollars at work!
- $10 million on Superman movie tie-ins while plans were being made to cut the strength of the Guard by 8,000 soldiers
Your tax dollars at work!
- The Popular Romance Project has received nearly $1 million from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) since 2010 to explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, songs, and internet fan fiction, taking a global perspectivewhile looking back across time as far as the ancient Greeks.
Your tax dollars at work!
- The National Institutes for Health spent $335,525 to conduct the study..
"If your wife is angry at you and you dont want her to stay that way, you might avoid passing along the findings of this
government study. Wives would find marriage more satisfying if they could calm down faster during arguments with their
husbands, according to government-funded research.
The researchers observed 82 married couples. The marriages that were the happiest were the ones in which the wives were able to calm down quickly..during marital conflict, explained one researcher.
Your tax dollars at work!
-The Senate Office of Education and Training offers Senate employees a wide variety of free courses on everything from the Benefits of a Good Nights Sleep215 to Pressure Point Therapy Workshop, in which students are taught how to locate and relieve active pressure.216 For its efforts, the office was provided $1.9 million
Your tax dollars at work!
- Federal Government Spends Millions on Apartments for Deaf Seniors, Then Decides They Cant Be Used by Deaf Seniors (HUD) $1,236,500
These are only a few of the 100 examples of government mismanagement and stupidity included in Wastebook 2013. Collectively these cost nearly $30 billion in a year when Washington would have you believe everything that could be done has been done to control unnecessary spending. Had just these 100 been eliminated, the sequester amount would have been reduced nearly a third without any noticeable disruption.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public...&File_id=d204730e-4a24-4711-b1db-99bb6c29d4b6 waste book
- $10 million on Superman movie tie-ins while plans were being made to cut the strength of the Guard by 8,000 soldiers
Your tax dollars at work!
- The Popular Romance Project has received nearly $1 million from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) since 2010 to explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, songs, and internet fan fiction, taking a global perspectivewhile looking back across time as far as the ancient Greeks.
Your tax dollars at work!
- The National Institutes for Health spent $335,525 to conduct the study..
"If your wife is angry at you and you dont want her to stay that way, you might avoid passing along the findings of this
government study. Wives would find marriage more satisfying if they could calm down faster during arguments with their
husbands, according to government-funded research.
The researchers observed 82 married couples. The marriages that were the happiest were the ones in which the wives were able to calm down quickly..during marital conflict, explained one researcher.
Your tax dollars at work!
-The Senate Office of Education and Training offers Senate employees a wide variety of free courses on everything from the Benefits of a Good Nights Sleep215 to Pressure Point Therapy Workshop, in which students are taught how to locate and relieve active pressure.216 For its efforts, the office was provided $1.9 million
Your tax dollars at work!
- Federal Government Spends Millions on Apartments for Deaf Seniors, Then Decides They Cant Be Used by Deaf Seniors (HUD) $1,236,500
These are only a few of the 100 examples of government mismanagement and stupidity included in Wastebook 2013. Collectively these cost nearly $30 billion in a year when Washington would have you believe everything that could be done has been done to control unnecessary spending. Had just these 100 been eliminated, the sequester amount would have been reduced nearly a third without any noticeable disruption.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public...&File_id=d204730e-4a24-4711-b1db-99bb6c29d4b6 waste book
