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‘$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing’: Sen. Coburn Releases Gov’t Waste Report

$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing: Sen. Coburn Releases Govt Waste Report$175 million to maintain an unused monkey house. $1.8 million for a museum dedicated to old Las Vegas signs. $615,000 to digitize a Grateful Dead collection. And $823,200 to study genitalia washing in South Africa. Those are just some of the projects that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) uses as examples of government waste in his annual “Wastebook” report released today.

“During these difficult times when families are struggling to make ends meet, the federal government can best assist hard working Americans by keeping their taxes low and not burdening them with higher debt,” Coburn says in the report’s introduction. “Congress can do so by not spending money we do not have on things we do not need, like the over $11.5 billion of examples provided in this report.”

“As you look at these examples, ask yourself: at a time when we are borrowing over $44,000 for every person in the country, are these items a priority and are they a federal responsibility?” he encourages readers. “Many taxpayers will no doubt agree that the wasteful spending uncovered in this report is not what they had in mind when they filed their taxes in April. Few will find that they represent the best our government has to offer.”

According to The Hill, some of the projects mentioned in the report were paid for using controversial earmarks.

Interested parties can read the entire report for more examples, including: $224,000 for a bus statue; $609,160 for a zoo to develop a “Wolfquest” video game; and $997,766 to install poetry at zoos nationwide.

Well-intentioned people across the political spectrum will argue about the best way to get us back on track. But we can all agree that cutting wasteful and low- priority spending from the budget is not only sensible, but essential,” Coburn says.

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  • firstamend
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:38am

    Medical study looking for volunteers – all you have to do is have sex with a dirty HIV infested ******, then was your penis right after. We’ll do the rest of the research for ya!

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  • fishfinder
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:38am

    What’s wrong with the parents teaching GENTITALIA washing!!!

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    • ARIZONA VETERAN
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:26pm

      Monkeys don’t wash….

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    • eteme
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 10:28pm

      WHY ARE WE FUNDING S. AFRICA?!?! For that matter any thing in the world, now we have pork spending not just here in America But all over this molten rock floating through space. All of this is rediculous and is outragous. “Over loading the machine will only crash it..”

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  • Mikee T
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:35am

    If we really knew what the “mission statements” were for every agency out there……not to mention the “earmarks” and grants that provide their very existence and agendas…..it‘s so out of control most of us don’t have any idea JUST how out of control it is………believe me……..I don’t know how we stop this 100 year old progressive train…..

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  • MUDFLAPS
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:34am

    I can save you some money, i washed mine today. See saved the money.

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  • wolverine
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:34am

    Hey if the TSA is going to feel you up you need to be clean

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:31am

    And to think, they rejected my request for mere $5 million, for my belly lint collection? American made belly lint might I add!

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  • standswithafist
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:31am

    so if you live in Africa, you need money to learn to wash your junk? ewwwwwwwwww.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:41am

      Why would someone in America need to worry about “junk washing” in South Africa? Free money to perverts, is my guess

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  • jrcess
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:30am

    I bet Obama was the sponsor of this bill!

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:27am

    The sad thing is that it wasn’t “waste” until the Obamunists got their hands on it.

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    • vennoye
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:33pm

      Yes it was!! What is so sad is that we were too dumb and trusting to check out where “The Government” was spending our money! The ‘$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing’ is probably just part of the 23 million the U.S. promised them if they adopted that new more communist, marxist constitution that made abortions legal…………and then, of course, muslims must wash their genitalia each time before they pray! New game now!! We are not nearly as trusting and are really paying attention to where the money is going!

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:21am

      And – this kind of garbage is really old news – same sh**, different year. It’s not an Obama thing, or a Democrat thing – it’s almost all politicians everywhere. A lot of these projects are money laundering at the highest level – ways for politicians to “give back” to big campaign donors, or family members, or random back scratchers they met along the way. You think it looks corrupt and ridiculous on the surface? If anyone had the time and inclination to dig into each item, I bet they’d find a veritable gold mine of corruption and treachery.

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  • REETZBEE
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:24am

    Thank God the 1.2 trillion Omnibus bill didn’t pass during the Lame Duck because if it did Obama would have signed it.

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  • Quintus Caecilius
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:21am

    Cow Farts cause “global warming” don’t you know? HA! This is what we have created. Now is the time for us to get rid of the waste – elitist politicians. We have to vote, call and force these simpletons to listen to us.

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    • Race
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:41am

      Maybe we need to jam hoses up cow bums and collect the methane. Whatcha think?

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:21am

    What we need is a study for is how much kickback do each of these legislators get for their earmarks

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  • flagbearer
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:20am

    Our founding fathers knew that public debt destroys empires. They and presidents after them fought to keep public debt non-existent or at a minimum. If debt was needed, they sought to pay it off quickly. We have had decades of politicians who sought to maintain their seats of power by promising the underprivileged and uninformed voters entitlements and false promises. Now, the entire nation must pay for their self-interest and treason to America. The elitist oligarchs who advocate New World Order have strategized an economic plan to make it happen. This whole utopian scheme needs to be investigated and those responsible need to be prosecuted and held responsible–imprisonment would suffice, but in my opinion, it would be too good for them. Traitors should be executed. A willingness to give up sovereignty and our republic is an act of treason. We patriots need to prepare and have a national plan, much as the Committee of Correspondence before the Revolution. We cannot depend on Congress alone to do it for us. One by one we will be picked off and eliminated, but together we stand a chance. Join or die. Where do I sign up?

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    • hickoryrat
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:03pm

      Good Luck,fat men don’t start revolutions.

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:59pm

      thats my question FlagBearer,where do we sign up?

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    • kenr1963
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 8:34pm

      Henry Knox Although not a founder was pretty good sized.

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    • rappini
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 9:35am

      Hey Flagbearer, you hit the problem right on the head, where to sign up. There are plenty of folks who think this whole thing is going to blow over in 2012.

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  • Reisenkiller
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:18am

    Typical. We need term limits to get these bums out.

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  • jackkemo
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:17am

    As BLOOD GUSHES out of my eyeballs!! When will the insanity stop?

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:22am

      It won’t, until they collapse the entire economy and replace our government with Communism. Cloward and Piven.

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    • Chett
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:36am

      not communism we are headed for, it fascism.

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  • texasfarmer
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:16am

    Dead Heads are deaf and stoned anyway. Won’t do them much good.

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  • TexasCommonSense
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:16am

    I’m proud to have Oklahoma as a neighbor. Go, Tom!

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    • debak
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:20am

      Thank you Senator Coburn for exposing this waste, now it’s up to you citizens to do something about it!

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:56pm

      yes we oklahomans are proud of Tom Coburn well conservitives anyway sad thing is he says this is his last term

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  • So
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:15am

    Christie, the nation needs you. Badly.

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  • Refounderparty
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:15am

    I thought they already invented the ball washer. They got them all over golf courses.

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  • Johnnyp1958
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:14am

    $823,000 to learn about cleaning your junk, I can do the research for free, soap and water. There I just saved 823,000 .

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    • booger71
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:49am

      Much of the money sent for in the guise of funding these idiotic programs just end up in the coffers of military dictators in these 3rd world countries.

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    • Gobomama
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:21pm

      As I read it, the article says “to study”, not to show them how to do it. What individual(s) will actually have the money in their hot little hands for this total waste of our tax dollars? That’s what I want to know.

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  • Disabledvet
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:12am

    I heard one the other day, a college got $750,000 to study COW FARTS of cows that eat only organic food.

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  • jblovesAmerica
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:10am

    In the movie Dave-the faux POTUS takes the budget and goes through about a foot thick of paper and starts cutting.
    $800,000.00 in today’s standards simple like”a little. Yes it is.
    Sen Coburn-start on page one from the last budget-and sharpen the knife-lets get busy.
    one page each day on TV for all to see.
    Foreign aid should be the first target.

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:16am

      What this country needs is a fake POTUS. Wait…we have one! Doh!

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  • IndyGuy
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:09am

    ‘$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing in South Africa’…If that ain’t a kick in the sac…

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:52pm

      i have an idea lets send Barney Frank to Africa and he can teach those Africans how to wash their private parta

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    • starman70
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 7:35pm

      @ SLIMRANGER

      Send Barney – - – - Then leave him there!

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  • randy
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:08am

    $615,000 to digitize a Grateful Dead collection??????
    That’s it. Does anyone need any more proof that we have a bunch or 60′s radical hippies running our Government?

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    • jackkemo
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:14am

      LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s true

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:18am

      Surely they could find some stinky hippie to do it in his basement for $615.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:35am

      Heck, it’s probably already been done. Just search emule for it.

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    • Marcobob69
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:59pm

      Re: TEXASCOMMONSENSE – They probably DID find a “hippie” to digitalize the Dead collection for $615, then pocketed the 000,000 part!!! This is what we get when we leave the FOX to guard the HEN HOUSE. This Wastebook 2010 should start waking up the people that are still ignoring the agenda of this government, and progressives in particular!!!

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    • America_First
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:05pm

      Now…Now… Randy…One does not need to be a hippie to like the Dead…but the music industry should digitize music and Hollywood should preserve films and not l the National Archives….Do you have any idea how many tax $’s are spent annually preserving and storing what the entertainment industry creates…from my prospective most of it is “Junk”…The American tax payer should not foot-the-bill…

      Yes they are nuts and many are brain dead hippies…

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:35pm

      Already has been digitized. Just look for the CD/DVD collection.

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    • Pslam 144 verse 1
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:48pm

      @Lantern

      Isn’t that one of the site homeland security & ice shut down last month for copyright infringment?

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    • highcarry
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:34pm

      same stinkin‘ hippies that were so down on ’ big brother ‘.

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    • Midwest Blonde
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 9:48pm

      Greatful Dead…. Gee, I’d do it for nothing as long as someone supplied all the albums, equipment and let me keep a copy of the recordings.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 12:24am

      Can filthy, radical hippies really appreciate the Grateful Dead more in digital, when they are laying around their moms basement tripping on acid and searching for their cheetos?

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:11am

      Oh, it’s only $15,000 to digitize the collection. It’s $600,000 to catch all those damn bears!

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  • xm-1774u
    Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:06am

    is there a video we could watch lol searously this is nuts

     
    • untameable-kate
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:10am

      I’m sure they could make one for you at the low, low price of 1,000,000 000 dollars!

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:11am

      Who commisioned this study? Bill or Hillary Clinton?

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:16am

      They want to cut the budget? Give me a chainsaw, and the constitution, and we will see just how fast it gets cut down to size!!!

      And for those political hacks who fail to comprehend what cutting means; there is a pack of rabid javalinas availible to explain it to them, not to mention the concept of ‘natural selection’ at the same time.

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • cessna152
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:21am

      (In my best Horshack impression) Oooh… Oooooh pick me… Ohh…Ohh, pick me (hand waiving wildly in the air)

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:26am

      Typical Washington. And the waste and abuse continues. When will it stop? When the people have had enough and rise up. Unitl then just keep the Valium and blood pressure medicine handy. Remember! Washington is not interested in what you and I think. We are but a nuisance to them.

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:28am

      Typical Democrat pork! I guess the liberals are too dumb to figure out how to clean themselves with out big brother telling them how to do it!

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    • Midwest Belle
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:41am

      Seriously???

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:48am

      The sad part is, this only makes up a miniscule amount of the spending the country does.

      If they’re bending us over on something this small (in comparison to the whole), just imagine what’s going on in the big programs.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:58am

      CultureWarriors.. NOTICE it said across ALL spectrum’s which would mean there were some CONSERVATIVE ones in there.. wish we could get a FULL list and who’s districts they were in..

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    • Bauervision
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:10pm

      man I just read the whole thing, holy crap! It made my eyes catch on fire a couple of times.

      Thankfully someone in DC is at least aware of it, but the real question is what are they going to do about it?

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:22pm

      So, did any government money go towards that idiotic study by the University of Maryland? I know Tides was in on it (and therefore George Soros and Drummand Pike and Obama).

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:38pm

      Over $800K for “genitalia washing”??!!!!! I’m assuming they are importning Playboy bunnies utilizing Champagne to accomplish this washing?

      TXPilot  
    • CatB
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 12:49pm

      Once again … truth is stranger than FICTION … !

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    • Bounder
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:03pm

      Actually, I’m not quite so against having a museum of old Las Vegas signs, that’s interesting history. But 1.8 mill is a tad pricey.

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    • chrisvin
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:33pm

      Bounder, I don’t have a problem with a neon light museum either…I JUST HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HAVING TO PAY FOR IT! I’m sure all of these “programs” are considered worthwhile by someone, but where in the Constitution is it written that someone in FL should have to pay for something that benefits NV? IT DOESN’T…and the Founders NEVER meant for it to be interpreted to say any such thing!

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    • Bounder
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:45pm

      I see your point, Chrisvin, and I respect it. But are not most museums funded by the government to one degree or another? I think the history preserved in a Las Vegas neon sign museum would be of interest to more than just the good people of NV. It interests me, for example. But I’ll tell you one thing: if I have to make a choice between the government funding museums that promote liberal dogma, and no museum funding at all, I’d have to choose the latter.

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    • IVillageIdiot
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 1:48pm

      This kind of thing is going to continue, UNTIL…..

      Science can afford itself using it’s own funding sources. An independent “Congress of Science” (NGO of some kind) should be formed to take up and solve three items in order to save itself for the politicians who are co-opting it, and it’s products, through a system of Grants.

      1. Who is a Scientist? (you can’t just let some smoe dawn a smock and call themselves a “Scientist”, i.e. a loaded to term designed to denote authoritative conclusions)

      2. A Scientist must be re-certified occasionally so that a Pseudo-Scientist can’t gain the label, then wax political under it’s auspices, and thereby game the public.

      3. Fund yourselves! Politicians are mostly lawyers. Lawyers hire “expert witnesses” to provide testimony at trials in order to convince juries that their client is correct. They don’t BUY expert witnesses that help the adversary’s attorney win, THEY BUY ANSWERS THAT HELP THEMSELVES WIN…. Having come to Congress, why would they do anything different?!??!!?? They BUY the Scientist that produces the answer they want to utilize and they do so with Grant money taken from the public under the threat of arrest. The “scientists” that accepts the money, DO NOT WANT TO WORK for Corp, they want to stay at the university where it’s safe and warm, and where they are comfortable with the way things work.

      THAT IS NOT SCIENCE….. THAT…. Is Politics…. If the western world is to pull out of this mess, THIS PROBLEM MUST BE SOLVED….

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    • pimacotton
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 2:26pm

      I think it weould be money well spent IF Al Sharpton did the studay AND was required to do it personally, on-site without internet access, telephone access or any other means of communicating with the outside world, AND the study took 5 years to complete.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:03pm

      If any of you aren’t yet convinced, even after this, that the Obama Administration is using a Cloward and Piven strategy to destroy the American economy so they can collapse it into Socialism, raise your hand.

      Then take that hand and slap yourself with it.

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    • nhall729
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 4:39pm

      I think there are better examples of governmental waste than this. Humanitarian aid through helping with hygiene in South Africa is a great way for the American people to try to give a hand up. The only thing is that it needs to be the American people, not the American government. Oh, and also the fact that we really aren’t in any condition to be helping anyone else right now and really need to get our own house back in order first so we can competently help others.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 5:27pm

      @ NHALL729,

      Yes, I agree. We need to get our own house back in order first.

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    • Curator_JDR
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 6:33pm

      Whoever approved this funding ought to be thrown in jail. What waste. And why is the government digitalizing the Grateful Dead? Will they use it for propaganda, like Obama’s NEA?

      The irresponsibility and contempt is striking. Who’s REALLY getting the money for the monkey house? I’m sure every cent is accountable.

      “They” don’t care what “we the people” think. The masks are truly off. How have the Progressives managed their power play for nearly 100 years?

      Progressive-Dada Video Expose: http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu

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    • Timekeeper
      Posted on December 20, 2010 at 11:51pm

      Put some names withose dollar amounts. We need to know who crazy people are so we can vote them out. I‘m sure there are some R’s that will be in the list.

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    • Sinista Mace
      Posted on December 21, 2010 at 2:47am

      Just give me the 800k. You don’t have to study it, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about washing your genitals, both male and female.

      I‘ll even show females who’re over the legal age! I promise, I’ll wear the TSA outfit too…

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    • TruthLover
      Posted on December 22, 2010 at 2:10am

      I dunno – I always wondered how those naked tribesmen in Africa kept their junk clean.

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