A new 154-page report released by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) flags the “fumble,” calls out the “team,” and suggests a way to “recover” the ball — aka the $247 billion in “wasteful and inefficient federal spending and regulations.”
So, just where did all of our hard-earned tax dollars go this year?
Scroll through the gallery to check out a few of the most ridiculous expenses by the federal government — your head will spin.
1. But What If They Also Said, ‘Bless You’?
People don’t like food that has been sneezed on … but NIH has funded a $2 million multi-year study about how kids “don’t like to eat food that’s been sneezed on.” Revolutionary.
2. Medieval Smells.
You can thank the three federal agencies, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Institute of Museum and Library Services, for a combined $495,000 — so you can experience the 85-day exhibition of sights, touch, sounds, smells, and tastes of medieval times.
3. Gas Station Tofu.
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) made a proposition that would require gas stations and convenience stores to sell items like tofu, shrimp, and almond milk if they want to continue accepting food stamps.
nope going cold turkey on the click bait format.
Did farts really smell differently back then? And who wouldn’t enjoy that authentic medieval sound of ripping one in a suit of armor?
Medieval farts? Sounds like something Mark Twain wrote about in his short story 1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3190/3190-0.txt
mid-evil people did not bathe
except once a year in the spring.
Farm animals often slept in the house
when it was dangerously cold outside.
ALL womens smelled like Lena Dunham’s nether regions…
Yea I want my Govt. to blow millions so I can huff some of that ???
PSA= Never ever buy or eat
TOFU SHRIMP {of any kind!} or
ALMOND milk from a gas station.
aaaaahhhh baarrfff uuppp %*&%&^%&%(^
Time for this bullshit to stop. Tar and feather the congressional sponsors.
Lankford’s not doing it right.
The list of things that the govt spends money on UNwastefully is much much shorter.
“ALL womens smelled like Lena Dunham’s nether regions…
Yea I want my Govt. to blow millions so I can huff some of that ???”
This is a prime example of why commentators on this page should be the ones writing for SNL. 😂
Obama collected $3.2 million dollars the past 8 years, of which he paid the MINIMUM tax.
Only 15 ways?
How many millions were wasted dragging the Moose’s fat A$$ around the World for her vacations?