Pork Report October 28, 2009: Taxpayer Subsidies All Around Edition
by The Pork ReportThere are millions of tweets every day, and the government is paying scientists $678,000 to read them and measure the happiness of the written expressions
National Science Foundation discovers the cure for politicians’ dismal approval ratings; Taxpayer funded researchers to brief Congress on how to increase constituent trust and approval ratings this Friday
The right to free speech now includes government subsidized cell phones; Phone companies receive up to $10 a month in government subsidies to cover what amounts to about $3 in service per beneficiary
“Cell phone ownership is a right,” says company that provides taxpayer subsidized phones
Taxpayers subsidize about $32 of the cost of a train ticket for every Amtrak passenger
Despites the massive $787 billion in federal stimulus spending, the national unemployment rate rises to nearly 9.8 percent and the nation marks the 21st month of net job losses, longer than at any time since the Great Depression…
The White House says stimulus spending has already had its biggest impact and probably won’t contribute to significant growth next year
Lives lost and millions of dollars of property destroyed because American Samoa diverted millions of dollars of federal Department of Homeland Security funds intended for disaster preparedness; DHS funds paid for flat-screen televisions, executive leather chairs, and extensive travel and entertainment charges including a Las Vegas junket
Junket watch: Speaking at a beachfront spa and resort, Federal Reserve Chairman says Americans need to save more and the country must “substantially reduce federal deficits”
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Where do WE sign up for our free Obama Phone? Is this only available to democrats?
I just love when government officials go on expensive junkets to exotic places and then say the rest of us Americans have to cut back. I guess I should be happy that this junket was actually in the United States instead of Tahiti or the Bahamas.
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Hey COngress, you wanna perk up those ratings a little? Stop spending all of our G–D— money and start listening to us for a change. Now where is my gov't grant for all of that exhaustive research?
Here- I can save us the entire $678,000. Scientists- we're pissed-off! There. There's your study. Now, get a real job.
All this hope & change is making me sick. Let's see….is there a way I can slip an amendment to the health care bill to pay for how sick this Congress is making me? Hey – ELECTED OFFICIALS – ARE YOU LISTENING TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS YET???
Nice post. I’ve subscribed. Grants are still not easy to find, right?