As Washington bureaucrats waste away our tax dollars on slot-playing pigeons and zombie cats, federal spending is spiraling out of hand.
A new analysis from the Illinois-based charity American Transparency lists some of the dumb, dishonest, and wasteful federal initiatives that have plunged us into an economic quagmire four months after the US national debt surpassed the $30 trillion mark for the first time in history.
Adam Andrzejewski, the organization’s founder, stated, “The federal government isn’t just wasting your money. They are literally ripping you off. They are milking taxpayers like dairy cows.”
By constructing a casino for pigeons, taxpayers are taking a high-risk gamble on a study that tries to understand the psychology of gambling addiction. Researchers at Portland, Oregon’s ultra-liberal Reed College are spending three years and almost half a million dollars from the National Institutes of Health to build a self-sufficient tiny economy for the school’s flock of birds.
According to a ProPublica investigation, one loan processing business transferred approximately $7 million in Paycheck Protection Program cheques to fictitious farms in remote locations.
Harvard researchers made $75,000 off of a leaf blower, a wooden pole, and a group of Caribbean lizards. The National Science Foundation funded researchers to collect 47 anole lizards in the Turks and Caicos Islands and then blast the reptiles with leaf blowers, citing concerns about storms exacerbated by climate change.
The wealthy increased their wealth during the coronavirus outbreak. Kanye West, Robert Redford, and Francis Ford Coppola are just a few of the outspoken figures that reaped substantial payouts through the COVID relief Paycheck Protection Program in 2020. The total was $14 million.
With the assistance of the US government, gruesome experiments in a Russian facility transformed adorable kittens into electrically controlled zombies. The US National Institutes of Health sponsored researchers at the Pavlov Institute of Physiology in St. Petersburg, Russia, to decerebrate 18 healthy cats by cutting their brain stems in order to prohibit movement while keeping them alive. The price was $549,331.
To put a mathematical model of feces to the test, the National Science Foundation monitored animal waste. In their most private moments, researchers captured film of pandas, elephants, warthogs, and other animals. The price was $556,584.
Despite being the nation’s leading intelligence collecting agency, the National Security Agency lacks the ability to construct a usable staff parking lot. At its Ft. Mead, Maryland headquarters, the organization wasted $3.6 million on a hurriedly constructed modular parking deck, according to a damning 2021 inspector general’s report. Only 87 automobiles could fit in the completed garage, which was supposed to hold 250.
The National Cancer Institute provided roughly $7 million in funding for Stanford University researchers to create a synthetically intelligent toilet system that records the user’s privates. Similar to your fingerprint.
