Sen. Tom Coburn's 'Wastebook'

Sometime in the last year Nancy Pelosi told us we couldn't make any more cuts in government spending. "We've cut everything we can" she said. What a gnarly buffoon.

Each and every year Sen. Tom Coburn(r-Okla) publishes what he's so aptly titled his 'Wastebook'.

Listed are only a few examples of what Coburn says are more than $25 billion of your tax dollars wasted every year.   

 Among the projects:

* $331,000 from the National Science Foundation to fund a study that determined that hungry people were more likely to stab voodoo dolls of their spouses out of anger* $387,000 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to study the benefit of Swedish massage on rabbits, who were later euthanized. “The director of the National Institutes for Health claims a vaccine for Ebola 'probably' would have been developed by now if not for the stagnant funding for the agency, which has a $30 billion annual budget,” Coburn said. “Yet NIH did come up with the money to pay to give Swedish massages for rabbits.”
* $202,000 from the National Science Foundation for university research on whether Wikipedia is sexist.
* $194,090 for researchers to send regular text messages to heavy drinkers to try to curb their drinking patterns.
* $2 million for a U.S. Department of Agriculture competition to build wood rather than steel skyscrapers.
* $533,376 to study the impact of Buddhist literature on sleep.
* $5 million from the Federal Aviation Administration for a fence project in Sioux Falls that turned into a 27-hole golf course renovation.
* $1.4 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Cary, N.C., to finance a boutique hotel with tea and spa services under the argument the project will create jobs for low-income residents.
* $55,000 from the federal government for costs related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's book tour this year in Europe — including $3,668 for one night in a suite at the Four Seasons George V hotel in Paris.

For continuous guffaws click the link for the entire 'Wastebook' list http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=f9478504-be7e-4b8f-9ef8-baa0895a9579