Your 2013 Federal tax dollars hard at work!!! (Tell me now the rich should PAY MORE) $400,000 For a Plastic Camel statue in Pakistan (Outside the new embassy). $1,000,000 For a granite sculpture by Irish-born artist Sean Scully to be installed at the new U.S. Embassy in London. $7 Billion (with a “B”) The military has decided to simply destroy more than $7 billion worth of equipment rather than sell it or ship it back home from the Middle East. $50,000,000 the Department of Commerce’s National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is charging other offices and taxpayers to provide government reports that are largely available free of charge on the Internet. It is essentially the “let me Google that for you” office of the federal government. $297 Million in an era of technological advances that make the machines of war smaller and more agile, the Army spent three and a half years developing a football field-sized blimp that would provide continuous surveillance of the Afghan battlefield – called by some an “unblinking eye.” In 2013, however, the Army closed the blimp’s eye forever when it brought the project to a halt after spending nearly $300 million. The Army sold the airship back to the contractor that was building it for just $301,000. $335,525 to conduct a study that concluded Wives would find marriage more satisfying if they could calm down faster during arguments with their husbands. (I am not mentioning this one to my wife ;) ) $1.9 Million for Lifestyle Coaching for Senate Staff $1 Million for a single bus stop in Arlington County, Virginia. $2.6 Million on needed apartments for the deaf, government lawyers now say the Tempe, Arizona based Apache ASL Trails (Apache) apartment facility violates the law because it has too many deaf residents. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the apartment facility does not do enough to also attract non-deaf residents. However, HUD funded this award winning project “knowing” the property was designed and built “for seniors who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind”. $65 Million Hurricane Sandy “Emergency” Funds Spent by (HUD) on tourism-related TV advertisements. ***** Just to mention a few******
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 01:15:59 +0000
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