U.S. Blows $54 Billion on Wasteful Projects; Smart Toilets, Hot Tub Study, Edible Marijuana Survey

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If you want to know one of the reasons the American people (aka government) are in debt up to our eyeballs… well here is some of it! I mean, come on man…! when are we gonna put a stop to this crap! This will make you sick at your stomach. The wastefulness that goes on in D.C. from our so called representatives is just so out of control it’s unbelievable! And ole joe and the radicals will just add more and more to it while we go broker and broker.


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U.S. Blows $54 Billion on Wasteful Projects; Smart Toilets, Hot Tub Study, Edible Marijuana Survey

Titled “Festivus Report 2020,” the document is extensive with 139 pages sprinkled with graphs, illustrations and photos to help the public fully grasp the magnitude of the problem. It was released recently by Senator Rand Paul, an eye surgeon from Kentucky elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. “Congress spent as never before, doing so ostensibly without a care,” the introduction states, adding that the report highlights “$54,746,524,505.37 of totally wasted money.” To put it in perspective the senator’s staff breaks it down, revealing that Uncle Sam wasted the money of 5.4 million people, enough to fill every Power Five conference college football stadium with more than one million people left over and enough to buy every American a 40-inch flat screen television. If 5.4 million people were lined up head to toe, it would span the Appalachian Trail 2.5 times, according to the document.

While the nation’s healthcare institutes were the biggest culprits, the top 10 list is diverse with offenders from the military, foreign aid, science, energy, and other government agencies. They include a costly—and ineffective—counter narcotics effort in Afghanistan, Fish and Wildlife Service subsidizing yachting, developing methods to stop adults from binge-watching television, the loss of more than 100 military drones and a handsomely funded science study featuring lizards running on a treadmill. It gets better. “Researchers used federal funds from grants worth $1,327,781.72 to see if you’ll eat ground-up bugs,” the report says, revealing that cricket powder was utilized in the project. The taxpayer-funded work was essential, according to the publicly funded researchers, because government scientists believe climate change is threatening global food security and they must search for more environmentally sustainable protein sources. Jiminy Cricket!

Another outrageous example embedded in the waste report features a $7 million university project funded by the National Cancer Institute to create a “smart toilet.” Researchers claim the purpose is to develop “easily deployable hardware and software for the long-term analysis of a user’s excreta through data collection and models of human health.” The toilet supposedly operates with artificial intelligence that includes three cameras and a urinalysis strip. Health data is collected and stored in a digital cloud system. Here is how it operates, according to information provided by the senator’s office. The toilet’s hardware and cameras use “biometric identifiers to securely associate the collected data with the user’s identity.” This includes fingerprints, photos, and a video of the user’s “analprint” to track bowel movements. For those wondering how such a preposterous project could receive millions from the government, the grant was issued under the premise that a noninvasive monitoring procedure known as molecular imaging could help detect and manage cancer.

Some of the more egregious foreign aid examples include $48 million to help “disconnected” Tunisian youth, a $10 million program to improve Zimbabwe’s political process, $3.25 million to send up to 50 Russian students to American community colleges and $2 million to set up a venture capital fund in Bosnia & Herzegovina for bad investments. Millions more were blown on other questionable causes such as teaching rural unemployed Romanians English, the production of a play to address social issues in Mumbai, book clubs for Pakistani and Afghan kids and to improve the Tunisian chamber of commerce. In the area of “essential” science research the development a headset to track eating behavior sticks out because it received north of $2 million. The lizard-treadmill study mentioned above received a million and a half dollars to analyze six lizards walking on a treadmill while being X-rayed with 3D imaging technology. The point was to figure out how their joints moved.

 


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