Tag: Tom Coburn

Your tax dollars at work: Robots that fold laundry, shrimp on treadmills, Antarctic jello wrestling

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is at it again. He’s issued his annual report that details massive government waste on stupid projects.

Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is at it again. He’s issued his annual report that details massive government waste on stupid projects. We’re talking billions of dollars wasted on hairbrained projects.

Our favorite is the $1.5 million they spent to develop a robot that can fold shirts. Only problem is, it takes the robot 25 minutes per shirt.

jello wrestling
Hey, c'mon, Senator Coburn, some of these projects are vital scientific research

OK, OK, you know us too well. That’s not really our favorite. We were just trying to sound mature. Our real favorite is the Antarctic jello wrestling.

The New York Post reports:

The report found that at the Antarctic McMurdo research station, which part of a $451 million a year polar research project, NSF employees organized a Jell-o-wrestling event and nude “polar bear plunge” party.

Ahhh, but that’s just the beginning. Scientists at the NSF came up with lots of other wacky ways to waste your money. Such as:

  • Having shrimp walk on tiny treadmills to measure the impact of sickness on crustaceans;
  • $80,000 study on why the same teams always dominate March Madness;
  • $315,000 study suggesting playing FarmVille on Facebook helps adults develop and maintain relationships;
  • $1 million for an analysis of how quickly parents respond to trendy baby names;
  • $50,000 to produce and publicize amateur songs about science, including a rap called “Money 4 Drugz,” and a misleading song titled “Biogas is a Gas, Gas, Gas”;
  • $2 million to figure out that people who often post pictures on the internet from the same location at the same time are usually friends; and
  • $581,000 on whether online dating site users are racist.

Remember this next time you hear Democrats say there’s no way to cut the budget. Here’s Coburn outlining just a few of them.

Source: New York Post

Tom Coburn’s blunt assessment of 2012 budget negotiations: “Send me some senators with gonads.”

In this clip syndicated radio talker Hugh Hewitt talks to Coburn about the problems he faces in 2012 budget negotiations. He’s looking for senators with balls.

In The Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow wanted a brain, the Tin Man wanted a heart and the Cowardly Lion wanted courage. In the U.S. Senate, Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is looking for something far more difficult to find:

Senators with balls.

In this clip syndicated radio talker Hugh Hewitt talks to Coburn about the problems he faces in 2012 budget negotiations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzZY9hMF0Y

Two Republicans, four giant balls

This is what we’re talking about. Conservatives actually standing up to the Democrats for once. Effin’ A, man.

First, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) issues a warning to any Democrats who change their ObamaCare votes from no to yes.

Then Rep. Paul Broun, (R-GA), a family doctor, has a few choice words for the lovely and effervescent Princess Pelosi.

This is what we’re talking about. Conservatives actually standing up to the Democrats for once. Effin’ A, man.

First, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) issues a warning to any Democrats who change their ObamaCare votes from no to yes.

Then Rep. Paul Broun, (R-GA), a family doctor, has a few choice words for the lovely and effervescent Princess Pelosi.

Coburn: I want to send a couple messages to my colleagues in the House. If you voted no and you vote yes and you lose your election, and you think any nomination to a federal position isn’t going to held in the Senate, I’ve got news for you. It’s going to be held.

If you think you can cut a deal now and it not come out until after the election, I want to tell you that isn’t going to happen and be prepared to defend selling your vote in the House…

Broun: I have three simple questions Ms Pelosi. Are you so arrogant that you think you know what’s best for the American people? Are you so ignorant that you are oblivious to the wishes of the American people? And are you so incompetent that you are going to ignore the Constitution of the United States, use tricks, deceptions, bald faced lies to try to ram down the throat of the American people something that they do not want and is going to be absolutely worse for their healthcare?…”

H/T: HotAir.com, GatewayPundit.com

100 wasteful, wacky projects included in the President’s “stimulus” program

Oklahoma’s Republican Senator Tom Coburn has come up with a list of “stimulus” projects that fritter away your hard-earned taxes.

That "stimulus" money is burning a hole in Obama's pocket.
That "stimulus" money is burning a hole in Obama's pocket.

Oklahoma’s Republican Senator Tom Coburn is tight with a dollar. His dollar. Your dollar. Everybody’s dollar. He’s come up with a list of “stimulus” projects that fritter away your hard-earned taxes.

The Senator didn’t compile this list on his own. He collected stories from local newspapers that questioned how stimulus dollars were being spent on projects in their areas. 


Here are some of the wasteful, wacky projects scheduled for funding in the “stimulus” program:

  • $840,000 to repair a bridge in Portage County, Wisconsin, that carries just 260 vehicles a day – mostly to an isolated saloon and a country club.
 

  • $1.3 million to Solon Township, Michigan to help pay for a wastewater treatment plant local residents don’t want. There’s no plan for the plant and local support for it is questionable. 

  • $3.4 million for an underground wildlife road crossing on U.S. Highway 27 for turtles and other wildlife in Lake Jackson, Florida. (A spokesman for the Florida Transportation Department said the project is needed for safety because turtles hit by vehicles can become flying projectiles. Seriously. He said that.)
  • $1.5 million in stimulus money to partially fund a new wastewater treatment plant in Perkins, Oklahoma. The new plant was originally scheduled to cost $5 million, but strings attached to the “stimulus” money will increase the cost to $7.2 million. As a result of the cost increases, the city will be forced to borrow the additional money and increase utility taxes by 60% to pay for it.

  • $300 road signs to be placed at construction sites to inform motorists that the project is being paid for by the “stimulus” money. 

  • $2.2 million to intall skylights in Montana’s state-run liquor warehouse.

We would like to propose an additional program:

$7.75 million to study the impact on rodents when money is pounded down rat holes.

Source: CNSnews.com

Creative accounting: now Hollywood wants bail-out money

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TctjzEeNnI4The more creative you are in Hollywood, the more money you make. Especially if your specialty is accounting.

Hollywood has now lined-up with tin cups in hand, begging for an infusion of tax dollars. One provision of the “stimulus” bill would have given new film projects an immediate 50% write-off.

Republicans, lead by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), shamed Democrats into stripping $246 million in movie industry tax breaks from the bloated bill.

They contend Hollywood doesn’t need they money. “They had their best January ever,” Coburn said.

If one were cynical, one might assume the tax breaks were designed as a payback for the campaign dollars Hollywood showered on Obama.

To see how the Hollywood bail-out would have been structured, Democrats watched the attached instructional video.

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