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red states rule
12-02-2014, 03:37 AM
As the price of oil sinks, the price at the pump is falling and giving some relief to working folks. Well now some on the left want to jack that price up by increasing the Federal gas tax

Why? To fix our "crumbling"m roads and bridges. Now wait - I thought we already spent over $800 BILLION on the Obama "stimulus" to fix that problem. Remember how Obama promised all those shovel ready jobs?

Where the hell did that money go? I do not know about you but I do not like to pay for the same thing twice

Well here are 10 examples on how your hard earned tax money was spent




Five years and at least $816.3 billion (http://www.recovery.gov/arra/Pages/default.aspx) later, here are 10 ways the government wasted taxpayer money.


10) $1.3 Million for Stimulus Highway Signs

9) $152K to Get Lesbians Ready for ‘Adoptive Parenthood’

8) $600,000 to Plant Trees in Wealthy Neighborhoods

7) $384,949 Study of Duck Penises

6) $1.2 Million Study of Erectile Dysfunction in Overweight Men

5) $100,000 Anti-Capitalist Puppet Shows

4) $389,357 for College Students to Keep a Diary of Their Marijuana and Malt Liquor Use

3) $3.4 Million Turtle Tunnel

2) $8,408 Study to See if Mice Get Drunk

1) $535 Million on Solyndra


http://freebeacon.com/issues/the-10-most-outrageous-stimulus-projects/