Where Could We Possibly Cut Spending?

$100,000 in prizes offered by the Department of Energy to develop an energy app that would help users track their energy usage in their home.
Pepsi accepted slightly more than $1.3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce to build a new aquifer-direct water supply system, a new road leading to the plant, and to improve the parks’ wastewater capacity.

Researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California Davis spent a portion of a $325,000 National Science Foundation grant to construct a robot squirrel to answer the question of why rattlesnakes rarely attack squirrels that wag their tails.
A research team in North Carolina used $1.2 million from a National Science Foundation grant to study 39 individuals, aged 60 to 77, to see how their cognitive function responded after playing Activision Blizzard’s (Nasdaq: ATVI ) World of Warcraft for two hours every day for two straight weeks.
Nearly $1 million spent annually on developing a so-called “Mars menu.

Michigan State Police, in an effort to deter drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel of a car, apportioned $10,000 in federal funds to purchase 400 talking urinal cakes from a Maryland-based company called Wizmark. The urinal cakes, when activated by a motion sensor, would encourage users at local bars to consider getting a cab if intoxicated and, of course, remind them to wash their hands!

The MDA has not once, but twice, begun the build-out of interceptor missiles without first finishing the research and testing that should have been completed prior to their construction.

Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana used part of a $350,000 National Science Foundation grant to examine the benefit golfers might gain if they used their imagination better.

In late 2010, the U.S. Navy split what could amount to $37 billion in contracts to build 55 new littoral (near-shore) combat ships between two companies, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) and Austal USA. While the thinking here is that two companies could build these ships twice as fast, they somehow failed to grasp that the defense systems, design, and software used on each ship would be different; meaning that crewmembers can’t simply be transferred from one ship to another without being retrained. This “boo-boo” is slated to cost taxpayers a minimum of $148 million.
A $939,771 experiment funded by the National Institutes of Health in Michigan and Texas that tested fruit flies to discover that male fruit flies are more attracted to younger female fruit flies than older ones.
(courtesy of dailycaller.com)

Government Logic on Spending Cuts

This month I have cut my spending to only $500 more than I spent last month.

A Marine's Letter to Senator "Franken"Feinstein

Senator Dianne Feinstein,

I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.

I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America.

I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.

I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.

We, the people, deserve better than you.

Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston

Cpl, United States Marine Corps
2004-2012

Amen Brother!!

Oh Thou Hypocrite

Merry Christmas

Another Failed Gun Control Law

Just another example of how gun control laws only affect the law-abiding.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/15/CT-Waiting-Period-Prevent-Gunman-From-Purchasing-Rifle-Two-Days-Before-Massacre

When will the left ever learn that laws will never stop those intent on violating them?

Another Restriction Costas Would Agree With!

Bob Costas believes that domestic disputes are more likely to end in shootings if the government does not limit people’s access to firearms. Since Costas is okay with denying Americans their Constitutional rights, I propose another restriction on one of our sacred rights.
Some sports programs are more likely to end with commentators saying completely asinine statements if the government does not limit people's free speech.  Therefore, I propose strict speech control to help commentators avoid revealing their ignorance.

Attention Liberals