-The half a million dollars in Community Development Block Grants provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make pet toothpaste and shampoo. -The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spenting $175 million during 2010 to maintain hundreds of buildings that it does not even use. This includes a pink, octagonal monkey house in the city of Dayton, Ohio. (Shame it closed, I know where the monkeys could get all their beauty products). -$325,000 National Science Foundation grant to make “RoboSquirrel,” a taxidermied rodent that can wag its tail. The purpose: to help study interactions between squirrels and rattlesnakes. (Do they shampoo those things?) -The Alabama Watermelon Association got $25,000 in state-allocated federal funds — part of a $401,367 grant from the Department of Agriculture — to have its spokeswoman go on a promotional tour. (The Alabama Watermelon Queen is no doubt an inspiration to us all.) -A total of $3 million hasbeengranted to researchersat the University of California at Irvine so that they can play video games such as World of Warcraft. (Hope they don’t haveaccessto assaultrifles) -$615,000 was given to theUniversity of California at Santa Cruz to digitizephotos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead. -Stanford University received $239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love and a safer and more discreet ways to find same-sex partners. -The National Institutes of Health spent approximately $442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam. (I wonder if they use the internet – contact Stanford) -$1.8 million of U.S. taxpayer dollarswent fora "museum of neon signs" in Las Vegas, Nevada. -$35 million wasreportedly paid out by Medicare to 118 "phantom" medical clinics that never even existed -In California, one park received $440,000 in federal funds to perform "green energy upgrades" on a building that has not been used for a decade. -No doubt to the horror of you gun control advocates, a Nevada park including a gun range was built by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) funds. Thisyear,thepark had $430,000 in revenues, but cost $1.3 million to operate. -The National Institutes of Health was given $800,000 in "stimulus funds" to study the impact of a "genital-washing program" on men in South Africa. (Maybethey could just talk to the Vietnamese male hookers) -$175,587 “to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior”. (Do they fly to Vietnam?) -2.6 million dollarsto train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.(Forthose that “bat on the other side of the plate” and don't have internet access.) -And occasionally there is just the carefree treatment of other people’s (the taxpayers) money. Such as when U.S. military spent “$998,798 shipping two 19-centwashers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida”. -But my favorite is the expansion of the bureaucracy. Remember in 2010 the Obama administration says the government grew to 2.15 million employees that year, topping 2 million forthefirst time since President Clinton declared that “the era of big government is over” and joined forces with a Republican-led Congress in the 1990s to pare back the federal work force. Guess what, it’s now and they are enjoying generous benefit packages, federal workers earn significantly better compensation than similarlyeducated workers in the private sector according to the CBO. -Doug, maybe you should have gotten a Federal job. Over the last 30 years, the U.S. national debt has gotten 13 times larger. We have accumulated the largest debt in the history of the world and there is no end in sight. In fact the “balanced approach” Mr. Obama pressed to address the fiscal crisis and “reduce the debt” that he victoriously celebrated on TV, the national debt will increase by $4 trillion over the CBO’s 10-year baseline — from $2.9 trillion to nearly $7 trillion per the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Balanced huh? But thien it doesn't apply to Mr. Obama. Taxpayers spent $1.4 billion dollarson everything from staffing, housing, flying and entertaining President Obama and his family last year. In comparison,Britishtaxpayers spent just $57.8 million on theroyal family. It is reported that taxpayers spend $102,000 per year on a “dog handler” for the president. Eventually the rest of the world is going to lose confidence in the ability of the U.S. government to repay all of this debt. Once confidence in U.S. Treasuries is totally gone, and there are already signs this is starting to happen, the game will be over and the U.S. financial system will collapse. Mr. Obama continues to act likeit is "business as usual" and the wasteful spending just continues to get worse. Have you seen ANYTHING about actually trimming waste, duplication or meaningfullydealing with fraud? We’ve seen lavish conferences at government expense, stimulus that didn’t and shovel ready jobs that weren’t. Someday historians will look back and think that we must havebeena nation full of idiotsand morons supported by a voting population of the same ilk. Keep working Doug, the government needs you!

That is a lot to take in all in one breath...