{"id":44104,"date":"2021-12-28T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44104"},"modified":"2021-12-28T11:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:00:55","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44104","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year Senator Rand Paul releases his\u00a0annual<\/a>\u00a0“Festivus Report<\/a>” detailing waste in government spending. On Monday, The American Thinker<\/a> posted an article about the 2021 list.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

For instance, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $11.3 million, in part, in an effort aimed at getting Vietnamese citizens to stop burning their trash.\u00a0\u00a0(It might just as well have\u00a0burned the $11.3 million<\/em>.)\u00a0\u00a0The federal government spent\u00a0$25 million\u00a0<\/em>to help New York City display art projects around its boroughs.\u00a0\u00a0(Yes, defund the police, but make sure criminals are inspired by art.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The federal government also reportedly donated $14 million to the Wilson Center, a Washington think-tank known for putting on parties for members of Congress.\u00a0\u00a0Well, Congress controls the purse strings, and what better way to use taxpayers’ money than to throw\u00a0itself\u00a0<\/em>lavish soir\u00e9es?<\/strong><\/p>\n

One point three million dollars went to a study, funded in part by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), to determine how hearing good or bad news affects peoples’ happiness.\u00a0\u00a0(Guess what!\u00a0\u00a0People are happier upon hearing good news than upon receiving bad news!\u00a0\u00a0I would have told them that for 1.3 million\u00a0pennies<\/em>.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article also mentions spending for border walls (only not in America):<\/p>\n

Incredibly, though the Biden administration halted construction of the wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, Paul said the federal government saw fit to give the Department of Defense $250 million to build border walls in the Middle East and North Africa. And why do walls work in places like Hungary, China, Israel, and North Africa…but not here in the States? Why do they work when surrounding the homes of progressive politicians like Barack Obama, but not when utilized to protect their own country’s borders? And why is the Department of Defense helping to defend foreign nations but not its own?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The U.S. federal government, via its National Institute of Health (NIH), also gave more than $465,000 to Portland, Oregon’s Reed College to fund a study on gambling that\u00a0taught pigeons to play slot machines<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sen. Paul released a statement to the Daily Wire in which he noted, “It seems like just yesterday the national debt was $20 trillion, but now the U.S. has managed to breeze past $28 trillion, spending and wasting more than we ever have.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

But remember, Sen. Paul, that people are happier after hearing good news.\u00a0\u00a0So let’s focus on the fact that we now have pigeons capable of playing slot machines.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s time to take away the government’s checkbook until they can learn to use it responsibly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year Senator Rand Paul releases his\u00a0annual\u00a0“Festivus Report” detailing waste in government spending. On Monday, The American Thinker posted an article about the 2021 list. The article reports: For instance, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $11.3 million, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13276,1918,13277,11239],"class_list":["post-44104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-festivus-report","tag-government-waste","tag-senator-rand-paul","tag-the-american-thinker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44105,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44104\/revisions\/44105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}