Monkeys on Cocaine!  National emergency and Stimulus money

Frankly it sounds like large chunk of congress and the White House is on cocaine. We have had it preached to us until we have gagged that the hundreds of billions being spent on stimulus money the last few years would create jobs, stimulate the ailing economy and was not waste. Right along side with this national emergency, spending orgy were the promises of Obama from the beginning that taxes wouldn’t rise.

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Now, Republican Senators have released a report which shows more of the moronic priorities of this congress and administration. Let us look at a few of these ‘non waste’ ‘national emergencies’ that had to have tax payer funds to stimulate. $71, 623 was awarded to study cocaine and its affects on monkeys. Gee, I can save them money on this one. My Ph.D. is in alcohol and Drugs/counseling. There is 100% probability that the monkeys will act high if given Cocaine. Now, can we take the $71,623 to invest in a small business to actually create a few jobs? Researchers who received the grant say this will help public health to look more closely at cocaine addiction and relapse. Dr. Roth must weigh in again. Not only will the monkeys get high with cocaine, it is safe to say they would want to take it again if it felt good. That doesn’t take a Ph.D. Masters, B.A. or high school diploma to figure that out. Apparently, if you are a progressive, democrat, and politician it is 100% impossible to figure this out. You must first spend massive money (excuse me….other people’s money) to tell you the obvious. There was $300,000 to study if yoga can reduce hot flashes with breast cancer survivors. Can’t the therapist or Doctor just try yoga or another physical activity to see if it helps? Why does this have to be a study with tax payer funds? One of my favorites, along with the San Francisco Bay Mouse getting millions and the underground Turtle tunnel in Florida priority was the California Academy of Sciences getting $1 million to capture, photograph and study tons of exotic ants. This would be done in Southwest Indian Ocean Islands and East Africa. Once again, this is a national emergency….NO….international emergency that U.S. tax payers have to fund. BP also got a truck load of $308 million to help build a California power plant that they won’t start building for two years. So, eventually, a few jobs would be made several years from now. There are more dimensions of endless waste. Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) has overspent for summer employment programs over $56 million over the past two years. This is just in D.C. alone, where the SYEP continues to overspend and get more and more money from the Government as accountability looks the other way. It is most clear with this congress and the Obama administration that ‘progressive’ liberal goals will always be a funded, “redistribution of wealth’ priority for America. As long as they are spending money on Turtle tunnels, mice, bridges to nowhere, ants in Africa, environmental plants and monkeys doing drugs, they are happy. They are even happier if millions more can be spent on pushing gay marriage, more abortions and assisted suicide. My small suggestion for research projects would include: Find a shaver that will remove leg stubble for more than a few hours. This would improve marriage and intimacy. See if parachuting ‘men in drag’ in Muslim war zones would shock the enemy into surrendering. Have congress replaced by Dogs, where they would bite the bad guys, mark their corners, unclog the courts and stop spending. Wouldn’t this get our country out of debt in 4 years? Judging from just a few of the chosen projects and spending priorities in the face of severe recessions, we would do better with an Alzheimer’s ward in congress. Certainly one wonders if many are on cocaine. We must vote most of them out at the mid terms and hire a new President year 4.