Fifteen Silliest Uses Of Taxpayer Money

[mfcorey1]

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/ejde45i/in-pictures-15-silliest-uses-of-taxpayer-money#content

Let's start eliminating some of these from the budget.

[Pholus]

1. I LOVE those forbes nitwits trying to one-line science to make it sound bad.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/998264--why-it-s-important-to-put-a-shrimp-on-a-treadmill

[Posteritatis]

3. I knew most of them would basically be "studies! outrage!"

Surprised they didn't mention volcano monitoring or fruit flies.

[Pholus]

4. Bobby vs. the Volcano!

I still get mileage out of that one with the bagger relatives.... :)

[Pholus]

2. Sorry, it wasn't forbes, it was congressional staffers for Sen Coborn -- cut THEM first.

http://stats.org/stories/2011/jelloheads_vs_journalists_jun1_11.html

[Warren DeMontague]

5. BS. How about "$40 Billion to keep Jamband Fans, Willie Nelson, & Cancer Grannies from smoking pot"?

Oh, right, that's not silly. :eyes:

[mfcorey1]

7. I've been had!!!. Thought it was legit. nt

[Pholus]

9. :)

S'all good!

[Enthusiast]

8. Good point.......nt

[dipsydoodle]

6. This is even funnier

Why the U.S. Is Also Giving Brazilians Farm Subsidies.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1978963,00.html#ixzz1RGiHimWh

[Scuba]

10. Where's paying for Rush Limbaugh to be on Armed Forces Radio?

[mwooldri]

11. Some grain of truth in there. Some.

I can see only one "silly" waste of money and that's the US Census advert during the Superbowl.

The studies most likely have data that underlines the headline result.

The rest have opportunities to cut costs, but aren't silly at all. Stupid in some parts but not silly.