Is the Federal Government Good Stewards to Our Tax Dollars?

Question by Taylor: Is the Federal Government good stewards to our tax dollars?
Just the tip of the iceberg…

16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master’s degrees.

$ 175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”.

$ 3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as World of Warcraft

$ 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.

2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.

Stanford University was given $ 239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love.

$ 1.8 million was spent on a “museum of neon signs” in Las Vegas, Nevada

25 billion dollars a year maintaining federal buildings that are either unused or totally vacant.

Dartmouth University was given $ 137,530 to create a “recession-themed” video game entitled “Layoff”.

$ 400,000 to find out why gay men in Argentina engage in risky sexual behavior when they are drunk.

And my Personal Favorite !!
$ 800,000 in “stimulus funds” to study the impact of a “genital-washing program” on men in South Africa.
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/30-stupid-things-the-governemnt-is-spending-money-on

Best answer:

Answer by jsbobo36
i mean honestly at this point we should just go back to the old system when the Federal government had to ask states for permission to take tax money

Answer by BALL ONE
No. In fact I`m rather inclined to think that they are more than very poor at it.

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