Dan Stubbs
FORGET ---- HELL
- Banned
- #1
Due to all the violence we have been seeing here is a little Government humor for you from the Government.
Spending of the U.S.A government
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Spending of the U.S.A government
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- The government spends about $100 million every four years to subsidize parties at the political conventions.
- The Department of Agriculture spent $2 million to fund an internship program. The program hired one full-time intern.
- Last year, $120 million was paid to dead federal employees.
- A total of $146 million was paid for federal employees to upgrade their flights to business class.
- The government spent $2.6 million to encourage Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly.
- The Department of Health and Human Services provided an $800,000 subsidy to build and IHop in Washington, D.C.
- The National Institutes of Health has given $1.5 million to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to study why “three-quarters” of lesbians in the United States are overweight and why most gay males are not.
- During 2012, $25,000 of federal money was spent on a promotional tour for the Alabama Watermelon Queen.
- The U.S. government spent $505,000 “to promote specialty hair and beauty products for cats and dogs” last year.
- NASA spends close to $1 million per year developing a menu of food for a manned mission to Mars even though it is being projected that a manned mission to Mars is still decades away.
- Over the past 15 years, a total of approximately $5.25 million has been spent on hair care services for the U.S. Senate.
- The U.S. government spent $27 million to teach Moroccans how to design and make pottery in 2012.
- During fiscal 2012, the National Science Foundation gave researchers at Purdue University $350,000. They used part of that money to help fund a study that discovered that if golfers imagine that a hole is bigger it will help them with their putting.
- A total of $10,000 of U.S. taxpayer money was actually used to purchase talking urinal cakes in Michigan.
- Vice President Joe Biden and his staff stopped in Paris for one night back in February. The hotel bill for that one night came to $585,000.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has spent $300,000 to encourage Americans to eat caviar produced in Idaho.
- The National Institute of Health recently gave $666,905 to a group of researchers that is conducting a study on the benefits of watching reruns on television.
- The National Institute of Health also spent $592,527 on a study that sought to figure out once and for all why chimpanzees throw poop.
- The federal government spent $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
- The IRS spent $60,000 on a film parody of Star Trek and a film parody of Gilligan’s Island.
- Last year, the federal government spent $96,000 to buy iPads for kindergarten students in Maine.
- The U.S. government spent $200,000 on “a tattoo removal program” in Mission Hills, Calif.
- Last year, the government spent just under $1 million posting snippets of poetry in zoos around the country.
- The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research spent $300,000 on a study that concluded the first bird on Earth probably had black feathers.
- The federal government spent $75,000 to promote awareness about the role Michigan plays in producing Christmas trees and poinsettias.
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