In our forty eighth episode of the Insanity Chronicles, we’ll have a look at the insanity of presidency spending. Bear in mind, insanity is a state of being mentally ailing, severely, extraordinarily silly habits, and a type of frenzied or chaotic exercise. Let’s check out among the most egregious spending in 2020.
Everyone knows getting previous, and rising gray hair is an issue. Fear not. Your extraordinary Congress spent $37 million on a examine to find out why hair turns gray. No phrase on what they discovered. They spent one other $32 million to see the results of e-cigarettes on coronary heart assaults. No outcomes as a result of the examine was, ultimately, discovered to be pretend.
Congress was proper there for the Native Individuals spending $58 million on city Indian healthcare. Are they like city cowboys? Actually, what number of may there be, and why distinctive healthcare for them? To not be outdone, the Veterans Administration spent $3.5 billion (with a B) for, get this, orders they’re ready on however by no means delivered. I do know it is overused, however you may’t make these things up.
We spent $3.5 million sending messages to Mother’s to get them to cease their daughters from indoor tanning. Wrap your head round that one. We spent one other $3 million interviewing San Franciscans about their edible hashish use. Add to that one other $2 million to see if hot-tubbing lowers stress-our tax {dollars} at work.
Attending to some essential stuff, we spent $1.5 million in a examine watching lizards stroll on treadmills. Presumably, there was a objective for this, however we won’t make certain?
We spent one other $2 million making an attempt to develop a headset that might monitor consuming habits and patterns. A fast name to Fitbit may have saved massive bucks.
In fact, all of that is chump change in comparison with navy spending. We spent $29 billion (with a B) growing a substitute for the Bradley combating car. And it could be helpful to say, after a long time we nonetheless do not have a substitute.
The Military Corps of Engineers constructed a state-of-the-art police advanced for $3.1 million. Good things. It was by no means used as a result of there was no option to get energy to it.
The Protection Division misplaced some gear destined for Syria to battle ISIS. That was a mere $715 million. The irony, after all, is that Obama created ISIS, so possibly they sure the gear. No piker themselves, FEMA spent $10 million on COVID check tubes. The issue was they obtained plastic soda bottles as an alternative. Shut solely in a recreation of hand grenades.
Skipping to overseas support, we spent $38 million to assist cope with truant Filipino youth. I ponder if the truants are behaving now? Transferring to Zimbabwe, we spent $10 million monitoring their elections for the previous 5 years. Possibly that is why we did not watch our personal elections? Then on to Tunisia, the place we spent a mere $48 million serving to disconnected youth not really feel like an issue to society.
We spent $3.5 million sending Russian youngsters to American universities for his or her ‘hole’ yr. I am certain we have been flat out of American youngsters needing assist. And that cash pit in Afghanistan got here calling. We spent $8.6 billion on anti-narcotics trafficking efforts. That’s most likely complicated to the American navy who served there. You see, they have been forbidden from bombing the drug vehicles working at night time. True story.
Our nation is hopelessly in debt, and Congress retains spending like drunken monkeys with an American Categorical card. We spent cash on coaching theatrical performers in Kenya and placing on performs in Mumbai. There isn’t a downside our Congressmen cannot resolve with our cash and cash from our great-grandkids down the road. It’s insanity.
Might we wake from this insanity earlier than it is too late. I want you good well being, and till subsequent time, have enjoyable, take pleasure in life, and be careful for the insanity amongst us. It is 2020; go searching; it is outrageous.
