You just paid your taxes, America; this is what you bought
By Andrew Collins | Watchdog.org
Uncle Sam thanks you.
An $876,752 study on snail sex
A University of Iowa study is trying to figure out if it’s better for snails to reproduce sexually or asexually.
A $16 million tropical vacation
That was the final price tag on President Obama’s most recent holiday vacations to Hawaii and Africa.
A $750,000 study on how kid cartoons contribute to obesity
The National Science Foundation awarded two grants totaling $750,000 to find out if cartoon characters are making children overweight.
A $2.4 million program to develop “origami condoms”
If you must know, it includes male and female versions, and the “first of its kind anal condom.”
Millions in drugs for prisoners
Medicare sent millions in improper payments to incarcerated persons.
A $98,670 outhouse
The Federal Bureau of Land Management may have just built the most expensive outhouse ever at the Swede Park Trail Head in Alaska.
$700 million of Obamacare promotion
The big doozy. Despite President Obama’s claim that the government did not “make a hard sell” for Obamacare, his administration spent nearly $700 million to promote the law.
