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All hail the Festivus report. Billions and billions of our tax payments wasted.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 4:29 pm
Posted on 12/23/23 at 4:29 pm
And understand why you have no money left at the end of the year and how your tax dollars are wasted.
This marks Dr. Paul’s ninth edition of the Festivus Report as he continues working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.
Some of the highlights include the National Institutes of Health spending a portion of a $2.7 million grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill and Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Department of Defense ruined over $169 million worth of military equipment by leaving it outside, the United States Agency for International Development spent $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and the Small Business Administration gave ‘struggling’ music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne over $200 million.
This marks Dr. Paul’s ninth edition of the Festivus Report as he continues working to alert the American people to how their federal government uses their hard-earned money.
Some of the highlights include the National Institutes of Health spending a portion of a $2.7 million grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill and Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Department of Defense ruined over $169 million worth of military equipment by leaving it outside, the United States Agency for International Development spent $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and the Small Business Administration gave ‘struggling’ music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne over $200 million.
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Posted on 12/23/23 at 4:32 pm to Sixafan
Fox in the hen house is one thing.
The American taxpayer is a hen in the fox house.
The American taxpayer is a hen in the fox house.
This post was edited on 12/23/23 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 12/23/23 at 4:38 pm to Sixafan
Wasted?
No, it is being distributed accordingly.
None of it is "wasted". It is handed out per promises made. Laundered, embezzled
, etc. Through NGOSs, third world countries, you name it. Everyone playing the game gets their cut.
No, it is being distributed accordingly.
None of it is "wasted". It is handed out per promises made. Laundered, embezzled
, etc. Through NGOSs, third world countries, you name it. Everyone playing the game gets their cut.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 4:39 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
Boy no kidding. And yet I don’t sense the outrage that I’d expect. Is it apathy? Hopelessness or are Americans now like fans of the Hunger Games or zoo animals. Feed me and I’m content with not being free? A nation of rigged individualists turned into sheep in less than 250 years. Less than most of Europe. Less than Rome.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 5:15 pm to Sixafan
Are you telling me you don’t want to pay millions to fund grants for transgendered monkey studies at Cornell?
Racist.
Racist.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 6:00 pm to Sixafan
Is there a link to this, I’d enjoy passing this around to a few morons.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 6:52 pm to Sixafan
Nickelback got 2 million of American taxpayer dollars. When do the marches start?
Posted on 12/23/23 at 6:56 pm to Sixafan
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the National Institutes of Health spending a portion of a $2.7 million grant to study Russian cats walking on a treadmill and Barbies used as proof of ID for receiving COVID Paycheck Protection Program funds. The Department of Defense ruined over $169 million worth of military equipment by leaving it outside, the United States Agency for International Development spent $6 million to promote tourism in Egypt, and the Small Business Administration gave ‘struggling’ music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne over $200 million.
Some people should be put in handcuffs and perp-walked for this.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:11 pm to Riverside
Only 25 pages long, I highly encourage everyone to get the pdf and go through it pdf link. If the link doesn't work, make sure there are no spaces in there.
- Gov added $4T to our debt this year. That's 40,000 pallets of $100 bills.
- We borrow $60k per second.
- $659B in interest payments on our debt. In 2022 we paid $475B, so the growth in interest alone is massive. Think of what we can fund with just the differential in interest.
- $6M to help tourism in Egypt. $100M for this cause over the years.
- $50B in overpayments for Medicaid (or Medicare).
- $4M to study COVID misinformation in black and rural communities while it was the government, Big Pharma, and Big Tech doing all the misinforming.
- Fauci's institute at NIH doing transgender stuff to monkeys, which is not just a waste of money but flatly inhumane.
- Total of $236B in overpayments. Much of it related to covid.
None of this will change until voting habits change and we force new people into government and force out the corrupt idiots that create this mess every year.
- Gov added $4T to our debt this year. That's 40,000 pallets of $100 bills.
- We borrow $60k per second.
- $659B in interest payments on our debt. In 2022 we paid $475B, so the growth in interest alone is massive. Think of what we can fund with just the differential in interest.
- $6M to help tourism in Egypt. $100M for this cause over the years.
- $50B in overpayments for Medicaid (or Medicare).
- $4M to study COVID misinformation in black and rural communities while it was the government, Big Pharma, and Big Tech doing all the misinforming.
- Fauci's institute at NIH doing transgender stuff to monkeys, which is not just a waste of money but flatly inhumane.
- Total of $236B in overpayments. Much of it related to covid.
None of this will change until voting habits change and we force new people into government and force out the corrupt idiots that create this mess every year.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:23 pm to Sixafan
I saw a clip of Rand on OAN earlier showing that we spent something like $1.3M studying whether or not a certain species of bird was more sexually promiscuous while under the influence of cocaine.
I was like, goddamn, seriously? They only need to look at all the Hunter tapes they're hiding to know the answer to that question. The laptop videos are pretty conclusive and incontrovertible.
ETA:
Seriously though, that wasn't a joke. Hunter really is a perverse, promiscuous cocaine addict, and our government really did waste over a million dollars getting birds gettered out and watching them frick. I hate, truly hate, what this nation has become.
But thank GOD for our few patriots willing to expose it. Before Rand Paul took up the mantle and began his annual "festivus report", my fellow Okie Tom Coburn (GOD rest his soul) always revealed things just as ridiculously wasteful in his annual wasteful spending report, such as funding a $4M research project studying how pigeons in Central Park reacted to the presence of a robotic squirrel.
The fact that every Congress for the past 30 years hasn't been tarred and feathered, is proof that America has already fallen.
I was like, goddamn, seriously? They only need to look at all the Hunter tapes they're hiding to know the answer to that question. The laptop videos are pretty conclusive and incontrovertible.
ETA:
Seriously though, that wasn't a joke. Hunter really is a perverse, promiscuous cocaine addict, and our government really did waste over a million dollars getting birds gettered out and watching them frick. I hate, truly hate, what this nation has become.
But thank GOD for our few patriots willing to expose it. Before Rand Paul took up the mantle and began his annual "festivus report", my fellow Okie Tom Coburn (GOD rest his soul) always revealed things just as ridiculously wasteful in his annual wasteful spending report, such as funding a $4M research project studying how pigeons in Central Park reacted to the presence of a robotic squirrel.
The fact that every Congress for the past 30 years hasn't been tarred and feathered, is proof that America has already fallen.
This post was edited on 12/23/23 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:37 pm to POTUS2024
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until voting habits change
This will never happen unless you restrict voting. We have largely ignorant voters and it will only get worse moving forward. Makes me wish I never had kids, I fear for their future.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 7:50 pm to POTUS2024
Not disputing anything in your post. I would argue that the problems with how our elected officials behave are mostly due to systemic issues. Misaligned incentives deliver dysfunctional governance.
Hopefully whenever the current system is overhauled or replaced the next one will have even greater protections in place for the citizens keeping in mind all we the things have seen our “leaders” do since the 18th century, but I am not very optimistic.
Hopefully whenever the current system is overhauled or replaced the next one will have even greater protections in place for the citizens keeping in mind all we the things have seen our “leaders” do since the 18th century, but I am not very optimistic.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 8:34 pm to Sixafan
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the Small Business Administration gave ‘struggling’ music artists like Post Malone, Chris Brown, and Lil Wayne over $200 million.
Bastards gave me a loan which I am paying back.
Posted on 12/23/23 at 8:43 pm to Laugh More
Google festivus report 2023
Posted on 12/24/23 at 4:33 am to Sixafan
We 100% need a President willing to shut it down if he doesn't get a balanced budget.
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