WASTEBOOK 2011

[Linda]

WASTEBOOK 2011
A GUIDE TO SOME OF THE MOST WASTEFUL AND LOW PRIORITY GOVERNMENT SPENDING OF 2011


Examples of wasteful spending highlighted in “Wastebook 2011” include:

• $75,000 to promote awareness about the role Michigan plays in producing Christmas trees & poinsettias.

• $15.3 million for one of the infamous Bridges to Nowhere in Alaska.

• $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.

• $35 million allocated for political party conventions in 2012.

• $765,828 to subsidize “pancakes for yuppies” in the nation’s capital.

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

Read the full report:
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b69a6ebd-7ebe-41b7-bb03-c25a5e194365

[Linda]

These people can waste more money then I could even begin to imagine.

Millions In Foreign Aid to… China? – (Department of State & U.S.
Agency for International Development) $17.80 Million

Mangled Mango Effort Could Hurt Farmers It Meant to Help –(Pakistan) $30 Million

Dead Federal Employees Continue to Get Benefits Checks – (U.S. Office of Personnel Management) $120 Million

Children, Prisoners, and Others Who Don’t Own Homes Awarded
Energy Efficient Home Improvement Tax Credits (Internal Revenue
Service) – $1 Billion