Government Waste A Tool? : Spreading the Wealth

I hate to end the year with such bad news showing how bad our government wastes our tax dollars, but if we some how forget who and what we going to have to deal with next year and beyond, this little wake up call to arms is on point.

The question that remains is waste just ignorance or a tool to buy customers? Is this over the top, maybe, but spreading the wealth to interested people and groups works. Santa Clause is loved by everyone. Never forget our new socialist government is not here to help us, but it's here to get and keep us all under it's control.

Wasted Tax Dollars in 2014
Source: Kelsey Harris, "7 Ridiculous Projects the Government Spent Your Tax Dollars on This Year," Daily Signal, December 29, 2014.

December 30, 2014

Did the government spend your tax dollars wisely this year? Kelsey Harris of the Daily Signal has compiled a list of seven wasteful spending projects funded by tax dollars in 2014. These include:

• The government spent $804,254 to develop a smartphone game to instruct parents to convince their children to eat new, healthy foods.
• The Department of Defense overpaid $3.3 million for radios that it provided to the Afghanistan army.
• $10,000 was spent to monitor how quickly saltmarsh grass grows.
• The government spent $10 million to create a video game that requires the characters to eat healthy foods in order to escape from a town populated by obese residents.
• The federal government spent $400,000 in tax dollars to transport foreign journalists to different American breweries and distilleries.

According to a recent Heritage Foundation report, the federal government spent a whopping $3.5 trillion in 2014. For more on government waste, see Senator Tom Coburn's  (R-Okla.) "Wastebook."

Each year the Senator releases a compendium of wasteful Washington spending. This year's Wastebook noted the government spent $387,000 on Swedish massages for rabbits and $1 billion to destroy $16 billion worth of ammunition.