{"id":18873,"date":"2013-09-17T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18873"},"modified":"2013-09-17T12:31:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T16:31:17","slug":"three-more-stupid-ways-the-government-wastes-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18873\/three-more-stupid-ways-the-government-wastes-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Three MORE Stupid Ways the Government Wastes Your Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) No manned space missions to Mars will be possible for at least 25 years, according to NASA projections. Still, NASA spends about $1 million a year \u201cresearching and building the Mars menu.\u201d According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coburn.senate.gov\/public\/\/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&amp;File_id=b7b23f66-2d60-4d5a-8bc5-8522c7e1a40e\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Tom Coburn\u2019s annual \u201cWastebook\u201d publication<\/a>, NASA passed out an additional $947,000 in 2012 to researchers at Cornell University and the University of Hawaii to pretend they were on Mars and eat food that could be served on the Red Planet.<\/p>\n<p>2) Because the federal government couldn\u2019t actually afford to fund President Obama\u2019s ill-conceived <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/inside-politics\/2012\/aug\/23\/stimulus-price-tag-rises-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">$833 billion<\/a> stimulus debacle, American taxpayers will continue to pay for the scheme for years to come &#8212; with interest.<\/p>\n<p>Among the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act\u2019s more outrageous expenditures was a $20,785 handout to the Miccosukee Indian Village in Florida that funded, among other things, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/DrewJohnson\/stimulus-alligator-wrestler-Miccosukee\/2012\/07\/17\/id\/445633\" target=\"_blank\">a high school-age alligator wrestler<\/a>.\u00a0Two other alligator wrestlers\u00a0from the Miccosukee Tribe have been severely injured performing with gators in recent years. Now, thanks to Obama, taxpayers are helping to pay for a kid to engage in the senseless stunt.<\/p>\n<p>3) In February <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/02\/28\/government-report-shows-attorney-general-fbi-used-luxury-jets-for-personal\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Government Accountability Office revealed<\/a> that\u00a0American taxpayers spent millions to shuttle the Attorney General and the FBI Director around in two high-tech luxury jets.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of Gulfstream V jets were supposedly purchased for counterterrorism purposes, but were used more than 60 percent of the time for &#8220;non-mission flights&#8221; from 2007 to 2011. Flying Attorney General Eric Holder, his predecessor in the Bush administration and FBI Director Robert Mueller around on those &#8220;non-mission flights&#8221; cost taxpayers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/02\/28\/government-report-shows-attorney-general-fbi-used-luxury-jets-for-personal\/\" target=\"_blank\">$11.4 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) No manned space missions to Mars will be possible for at least 25 years, according to NASA projections. Still, NASA spends about $1 million a year \u201cresearching and building the Mars menu.\u201d According to Sen. Tom Coburn\u2019s annual \u201cWastebook\u201d publication, NASA passed out an additional $947,000 in 2012 to researchers at Cornell University and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4271,4269,2106,498,960,3737,4270,288,2717,179,4268],"class_list":["post-18873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alligator-wrestling","tag-american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act","tag-coburn","tag-eric-holder","tag-government-waste","tag-mars","tag-miccosukee","tag-nasa","tag-robert-mueller","tag-stimulus","tag-wastebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18875,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions\/18875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}