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Here’s how the feds are conning you
Last week President Barack Obama told ABC News that the current national debt, which is approaching $17 trillion, is “sustainable,” and he does not feel the need to try to balance the budget.
Where is Herbert Hoover when we need an economic genius?
Just about every honest economist knows that running up massive debt without an effective strategy to improve the economy is flat-out dangerous. If the U.S. dollar collapses, there will be a worldwide depression that will make the recent recession look like an after-party at George Clooney’s house.
In the meantime, I can report the following federal expenditures that the president apparently has no problem overseeing:
- $27 million to the country of Morocco to teach the folks over there how to make pottery. I guess the Moroccan government is not capable of pottery instruction. This con is courtesy of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which now has the nerve to tell us that the pottery project is “not on track to achieve its goals.” Translation, the dollars we sent were likely stolen.
- $1.5 million to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston to study why many American lesbians are overweight. The National Institutes of Health calls the situation “an issue of high public-health significance.” Sure. Everybody’s talking about it.
- $947,000 to research a “Mars menu.” This would determine what astronauts could eat on the planet Mars if they ever get there. NASA says it will send six volunteers into a barren Hawaiian landscape to eat stuff so it can figure out what tastes good on Mars. I am NOT making this up – with apologies to Dave Barry.
- $325,000 to develop a robotic squirrel. The National Science Foundation wants the robots to scare rattlesnakes. The agency also says the robosquirrels will help in “public outreach.” Does anyone know what that means? Rocky? Bullwinkle?
- The National Science Foundation strikes again by funding a New York City theater company called The Civilians. They got nearly $700,000 in tax money to put on a play about “climate change and biodiversity.” Have you seen that play? No? That might be because it only played in Kansas City. Even Al Gore hasn’t seen it.
Finally, if you check out the Alabama Watermelon Queen tour this year, know that you paid for some of it. If you visit Nebraska, you should know that your tax dollars funded a company that makes shampoo and toothpaste for pets. And if you like caviar, well, you paid for a website designed to bring those exotic fish eggs to “the masses.”
These expenditures are so stupid it hurts. But I also think they are a criminal misuse of our tax dollars. It is estimated that the federal government could save $400 billion a year by eliminating wasteful and redundant programs.
There comes a point when folks get the government they deserve. The American people re-elected Barack Obama knowing that he is the biggest spender of all American presidents to date. In fact, Obama has spent more federal money than every president combined up until George W. Bush’s second year in office. And to this day, Obama and the Democratic Party are proud of their spending record.
The donkey is the symbol of the Democratic Party. It should be the robosquirrel.
Bill O’Reilly is host of the Fox News Show, “The O’Reilly Factor” and author of the book “Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama.”
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PatriotMarch 18, 2013 - 6:12 am
Speak the truth Bill..The haters of the truth will get riled up!
Reply |SavetheRepublicMarch 18, 2013 - 7:25 am
Yes I agree with Bill on this one. It is O'Real, O'Write, O'Right....it is correct alright!
Reply |GrannyMarch 18, 2013 - 7:27 am
I agree this one really kicked ass!
Reply |GrannyMarch 18, 2013 - 7:33 am
Like I always say when the O'possum plays dead, the Fox is in the shed!
Reply |Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 2:43 pm
Apparently your Fox is busy guarding your hen house today.
Reply |StR @ MikeMarch 18, 2013 - 2:54 pm
So maybe you should ask me if I am on the Dark side?
Reply |Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 2:57 pm
why?
Reply |StRMarch 18, 2013 - 3:37 pm
Why not?....Maybe I am feeling guilty....But anyway, I now declare Pester Mike Monday officially over....I am out of here for the day....Bye
Reply |Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 2:37 pm
Yes, concrudulations, Billo, on identifying a whole $30 million dollars of wasted government spending. Here's another trillion (that's 33,333 times more to you all you math whizzers out there) to add to your pile: the F-35.
Reply |rlw895March 18, 2013 - 3:49 pm
Yes, Billo is a joke. It's like the Republican budget, high sounding principle with no substance. Billo's caveat is "without an effective strategy to improve the economy." He implies that Obama doens't have such a strategy. Billo knows his audience won't ask questions about that. Obama has a strategy, but he has to have a Plan B too due to Republican obstructionism. Plan B must be working, because the economy is growing.
Reply |Mike KirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 4:14 pm
I disagree, Billo isn't the joke; he's making plenty of dough and laughing at us middle and lower class "pinheads" all the way to the bank. The joke is that there are so many lazy voters that are apparently unable or unwilling to do the math, eat this Billo stuff up, and then go vote against their own interests in favor of giving their hard-earned money to the wealthy of the country. It's a sad, sick joke on all of us.
Reply |Guess who? @ MikeMarch 18, 2013 - 6:22 pm
If it will make you happy Michael, our code word for Mr. O'Really will be Zippy from now on.....do you get the reference?
Reply |mike kirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 8:04 pm
Of course!
Reply |mike kirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 8:11 pm
Are we having fun yet?
Reply |NoMarch 18, 2013 - 8:20 pm
Because I still don't understand you...You are too much of a dichotomous puzzlement. You must have taht liberal disease. How am I going to get you elected unless you appeal to a larger base?
Reply |mike kirchubelMarch 18, 2013 - 8:43 pm
StR, put that line in quotes and google it.
Reply |You R NO funMarch 18, 2013 - 9:04 pm
What....and you come up w/this?....When false dichotomies are neither false, nor dichotomous.....I am not interested in this schlep......I am right and you are wrong (except about the Ferderal Reserve).....Are you trying to pester me?....I have caught on to you....Good Night and please consider yourself to be vainglorious. I get gooder at this vocabulary stuff all the time.
Reply |Don't listen to herMarch 18, 2013 - 9:19 pm
She still likes you no matter what, just gets a bit itchy at times.....Sweet Dreams
Reply |OK I sobered up NowMarch 18, 2013 - 11:16 pm
OK fundamentally Neo-Pagan Bill the Kat, Sorry, so Sorry...guess you meant this one...Dirty Names and False Dichotomies Posted on November 6, 2012..The Allergic Pagan....Quote....Recently, I heard a story on NPR’s “The American Life” about a guy who lost a friend when the friend found out that he had voted for Obama. The friend had called him a “socialist”. Of course, he didn’t think of himself as a socialist, but was left feeling that he had been called a dirty name, without really knowing why it was dirty. This got me thinking about how the terms we use to define others are different from the terms that others use to define themselves. When conservatives call liberals “socialists” and liberals call conservatives “ideologues”, neither side really knows what the other one is talking about, but both sides are left feeling vaguely insulted.......Is this what you were referring to? You can just answer Yes or No.....I have pestered you enough and taken enough of your time....I will not pester you again...(Well maybe just a little more, once and awhile, but not that much)
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