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- STOP!! THIEF!!
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- It has been costing taxpayers $243,000 to water bureaucrats' office
- plants.
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- The Department of Energy gave an inventive, forward-looking genius in
- Missouri $1,200 to design and build a solar heated outhouse.
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- The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration spent $27,000 to find
- out why inmates want to escape from prison.
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- The National Science Foundation spent $84,000 to study "why people
- fall in love."
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- The Smithsonian Institute spent $89,000 to publish a dictionary in the
- Taotzil language, which is spoken by a small, obscure tribe in Mexico.
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- The Federal Highway Administration wasted $220,000 of the taxpayers'
- money on an idiot's questionnaire asking whether large trucks
- contribute to traffic congestion.
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- The Department of Labor spent $385,000 for a door-to-door census of
- every dog, cat, and horse in Ventura County, California.
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- The U .S. Navy paid $110 each for diodes. They normally cost four
- cents. Navy cargo ships are repaired at a cost reportedly fifty-eight
- times greater than similar commercial vehicles.
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- A $97,000 grant by the National Institute for Mental Health was spent
- in part on the study of a Peruvian brothel. The researchers vested
- "three weeks of evening work" in making about twenty visits to a
- "house of ill repute." They found, through "formal" and "informal"
- interiews with prostitutes, that the brothel was a gathering place for
- men.
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- The Justice Department paid $734,371 to determine whether Playboy,
- Penthouse, and Hustler magazines contribute to juvenile delinquency.
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- The National Endowment for the Humanities granted $2,500 to Arlington
- County, Virginia, to study why people are rude, cheat, and lie on
- local tennis courts.
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- Many people believe the only way to eliminate the deficit is by either
- making serious cuts in important social and defense programs or by
- enacting a massive income tax increase.
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- However, the Grace Commission has documented $24 billion waste over
- three years--enough to eliminate the deficit without tax increases or
- cuts in important domestic and defense spending.
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- But powerful special interest groups who live off of the government
- waste are fighting hard to block Grace Commission recommendations.
-
- --American Way Features
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- --Straight Talk
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