Your tax dollars at work: Teaching Chinese hookers to drink responsibly »
Posted By k9kssr 7 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsIn a time of deep recession, the American taxpayer might assume that our government has taken care to spend its money responsibly. (All right, stop laughing, you know I’ m setting a stage here.) Even when we hear about monumentally stupid outlays like the snowmaking machine in Duluth in the Porkulus wish list, we assume that the monumentally stupid spending will remain in the US. Not so, as CNS points out about a curious grant awarded to Wayne State University:
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k9kssr7 months, 3 weeks ago
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I'm so glad this is happening, the thought of chinese hookers drinking irresponsibly has caused me a lot of anxiety and concern these past few months. If my hard-earned tax dollars can help, I may do the patriotic thing and send some extra.
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nostalgia7 months, 3 weeks ago
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The stupidity of some spending by the Feds never ceases to amaze me yet many people keep wanting to give them more and more responsibility
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At every turn they prove over and over that they can't act responsibly with taxpayer money
Have you read this story??
STIMULUS WATCH: Early road aid leaves out neediest
Counties suffering the most from job losses stand to receive the least help from President Barack Obama's plan to spend billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Although the intent of the money is to put people back to work, AP's review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide reveals that states are planning to spend the stimulus in communities where jobless rates are already lower.
One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn't receiving any road money despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and college community of Riley County, Kan., with its 3.4 percent unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway, improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.
Altogether, the government is set to spend 50 percent more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with the highest.
The very promise that Obama made, to spend money quickly and create jobs, is locking out many struggling communities needing those jobs.
The money goes to projects ready to start. But many struggling communities don't have projects waiting on a shelf. They couldn't afford the millions of dollars for preparation and plans that often is required.
"It's not fair," said Martin Schuller, the borough manager in the Elk County seat of Ridgway, who commiserates about the inequity in highway aid with colleagues in nearby towns. "It's a joke because we're not going to get it, because we don't have any projects ready to go."
Also, Congress required states to use some of the highway money for projects in economically distressed areas, but didn't impose sanctions if they didn't. States can lose money, however, if they don't spend fast enough.
Federal auditors acknowledge they can't yet track the transportation money that is leaving Washington and there is no single list of the thousands of projects planned in each state. For its analysis, the AP used lists of projects approved through March by the Transportation Department and collected lists of stimulus projects that have been announced in 49 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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kobzikov7 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is BREAKING NEWS!
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It happened only 6 months ago. Which proves once and for all that Obama administration has a TIME MACHINE.
So if you think that some spending policy that you disagree with was approved by the previous administration because it occurred last year, then you are CLEARLY WRONG! It was secretly approved by the current administration, which traveled back in time. WAKE UP PEOPLE! -
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k9kssr7 months, 3 weeks ago
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You libs are clearly insane. Nowhere was there any statement about Obama being responsible.....it is a general statement about wasteful spending in Washington during economic hardtimes. YOU assume Obama was the one doing the wasting. What must your pitiful lives be like if you see a boogey-man behind every tree?? Get over yourselves. Idiots.
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kobzikov7 months, 3 weeks ago
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If you wipe away the Glenn Beck-like spittle from your lips and start using your head just a little then you just might arrive at the following ideas,
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1. This is not HAPPENING. It already HAPPENED. HAPPENED as in past tense. The grant was already approved.
2. NIH is not located in Washington. Even if it was that does NOT mean that federal government gets to decide, which grants 27 different institutes that comprise NIH will approve or deny even if they get separate congressional appropriations.
3. NIH has its own budget and its budget was already approved for the year and it would be BEYOND stupid for Congress to start cutting the already approved budget.
4. If you have a problem with NIAAA's mission statement why not revise it to your liking and pitch it to NIH? After all you are clearly much more knowledgeable about all the aspects of alcoholism and how to combat against it then pretty much anyone working in NIAAA, which your comments clearly demonstrate.
5. Since your life is so delightful and you don't see a boogey-man behind every tree, only behind NIH grants, how about going through if not all of NIH research grants, but at least through all NIAAA grants and writing a proposal discussing which of them should be eliminated, why and where to direct the remaining funding? If you have the time to whine about the grants, then you have the time to to something constructive about it.
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Wolfie20077 months, 3 weeks ago
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This is just another off the wall stupid idea that the government spends our money on and who really cares about Chinese hookers? I figure the only one is the guy who got the $2.6 million dollars. Btw, if he wanted to study hookers and their drinking habits why not stay here in the US and study the local working girls.
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