The Benghazi Hearings Have Wasted $5 Million Dollars

Talk to any Democrat-Progressive-Socialist-Communist person; citizen or politician and they'll tell you all this brouhaha about Benghazi has been a burden on the taxpayer and a waste of good tax money. The congressman from Maryland who sits on the Benghazi Commission, Elijah Cummings, has spouted this mantra since day 1.

I'll be the first to admit I could use 5 million. Who wouldn't. But, have you considered what other projects our esteemed leaders spend our hard earned tax money on? I'm presenting a list of 10 of 30 examples. Most of us will laugh----then get somewhat angry. Others might even cry. Not me, though. I've been privy to this nonsense for seventy years.

Check out the first ten then click on the link for the other twenty. Remember: We elected these idiots.

#1 The U.S. government is spending $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

#2 The Obama administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master’s degrees.

#3 If you can believe it, the U.S. government has spent $175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”.

#4 The U.S. government spent $200,000 on “a tattoo removal program” in Mission Hills, California.

#5 The federal government has shelled out $3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as World of Warcraft.  Wouldn’t we all love to have a “research job” like that?

#6 The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that “can’t sit still” in a kindergarten classroom.

#7 Fannie Mae is about to ask the federal government for another $4.6 billion bailout, and it will almost certainly get it.

#8 The federal government once spent 30 million dollars on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos.

#9 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once gave researchers at the University of New Hampshire $700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.

#10 According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies “fund 209 different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs — and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program.” http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-stupid-things-the-governemnt-is-spending-money-on