Senator Rand Paul reveals how $482 billion of your money was wasted in 2022

[mystery-ak]

December 27, 2022
Senator Rand Paul reveals how $482 billion of your money was wasted in 2022
By Rajan Laad

Recently, Sen. Rand Paul released his “Festivus” report that detailed wasteful government spending.

This is an annual tradition meant to be an eye-opener to citizens. This is Paul’s 8th report.

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Back to Senator Rand Paul’s report which highlights the wastage of $482,276,543,907 of your money by your government.

These are key items of expenditure, or wastage to be more precise.

We begin a reminder of how deep a ditch D.C. is digging for the nation:

    $475,000,000,000 was spent on interest payments on the national debt which is roughly $31.5 trillion.

The government spent money to assist individuals to commit crimes:

    $168,000,000 was dedicated to assisting illegal immigrants to avoid deportation. This involves free legal assistance and general advice on how to skirt or break U.S. law.

The following was spent on rodents, puppies, parrots, and ants:

    $2.3 million for studying beagle puppies when injected with cocaine.

    $689,000 for studying romancing parrots.

    $3 million for watching hamsters fight on steroids.

    $519,000 used mice to study racial aggression.

    $675,000 for studying the social life and collective intelligence of ants.

The following was spent on foreign nations:

    $66 billion was for defending and supporting Ukraine while $45 billion more is on the way.

    $2.1 million was dedicated to encourage Ethiopians to wear shoes.

    $50,000,000 was dedicated to boosting the travel sector in Tunisia.

    $210,069,000 was dedicated to “basic education” projects in Jordan.

The following was how COVID-19 relief money was misused:

    $1.6 of COVID relief funds was used to upgrade turf fields.

    $13.5 of COVID relief funds was used to purchase luxury cars.

    $140,000,000 of COVID relief funds was used to construct an 11,000-square-foot spa in Florida.

    $4,500,000,000 of COVID relief funds was wasted on ineligible citizens and fraudsters.

The following was merely wasted:

    $77 million was wasted on un-tracked fuel purchases.

    $69,000,000  was wasted in overpaying government contractors for a terminated contract.

    $17 million was wasted on unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants.

    $1,700,000,000 was wasted on the maintenance of 77,000 empty federal buildings

    $175,000,000 was dedicated to expanding the seldom-used Washington, D.C. Streetcar.

    $187,000 to verify that the loving relationship between kids and their pets is beneficial.

The following was also wasted, although the goals may have been relatively meaningful:

    $28 million on “camouflage” uniforms that did not work.

    $491,794 was dedicated to the redevelopment of the United States hard cider market.

    $192,592 for Starbucks espresso machines at the Pentagon.

The following was dedicated to scandalously trivial pursuits:

    $118,000 to study whether the Marvel comic villain Thanos really could snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Glove and make half of all life in the universe disappear.

    $2.5 million for Super Bowl commercials “telling you to fill out the Census.”

    $200,000 was dedicated to a radio campaign to inform drivers to stop at railroad crossings. 

    $70,000,000 was dedicated to subsidizing the “free” New York Staten Island Ferry.

The following aren’t entirely wasteful but considering the faltering economy, the items could have been postponed:

    $9 million to construct a park in Austin, Texas, that is “used for yoga and concerts.”

    $3 million for a Mahatma Gandhi museum in Houston.

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[catfish1957]

Years worth of Babylon Bee Fodder here, if they wanted.

Too sad to be funny though.

[Fishrrman]

"$519,000 used mice to study racial aggression"

Mice have "races" ??

Color me... confused.