Pork/ the other waste meat? Are these projects really necessary or a classic case of government gone wild?

Question

$107,000 to study the sex life of the Japanese quail.
$1.2 million to study the breeding habits of the woodchuck.
$150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
$84,000 to find out why people fall in love.
$1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to work.
$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.
$144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws.
Funds to study the cause of rudeness on tennis courts and examine smiling patterns in bowling alleys.
$219,000 to teach college students how to watch television.
$2 million to construct an ancient Hawaiian canoe.
$20 million for a demonstration project to build wooden bridges.
$160,000 to study if you can hex an opponent by drawing an X on his chest.
$800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley.
$100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft.
$16,000 to study the operation of the komungo, a Korean stringed instrument.
$1 million to preserve a sewer in Trenton, NJ, as a historic monument.

$6,000 for a document on Worcestershire sauce.
$10,000 to study the effect of naval communications on a bull's potency.
$100,000 to research soybean-based ink.
$1 million for a Seafood Consumer Center.
$57,000 spent by the Executive Branch for gold-embossed playing cards on Air Force Two.
Total: $ 45,980,000

$3.1 million to convert a ferry boat into a crab restaurant in Baltimore.
$6.4 million for a Bavarian ski resort in Kellogg, Idaho.
$13 million to repair a privately owned dam in South Carolina.
$4.3 million for a privately owned museum in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
$11 million for a private pleasure boat harbor in Cleveland.
$6 million to repair tracks owned by the Soo Railroad Line.
$320,000 to purchase President McKinley's mother-in-law's house. Funds to rehabilitate the South Carolina mansion of Charles Pickney, a Framer of the Constitution, even though the house was built after he died.
$2.7 million for a catfish farm in Arkansas.
$3 million for private parking garages in Chicago.
$500,000 to build a replica of the Great Pyramid of Egypt in Indiana.
$850,000 for a bicycle path in Macomb County, Michigan.
$10 million for an access ramp in a privately owned stadium in Milwaukee.
$1.8 million for an engineering study to convert Biscayne Boulevard in Miami into an "Exotic Ga

$13 million for an industrial theme park in Pennsylvania.
$500,000 for a museum to honor former Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
$33 million to pump sand onto the private beaches of Miami hotels.
Total: $109,470,000

sources
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Answer 1

Well I think there were a couple on there that were worth while if IF they were for real and the findings were used to further fish farming and the soy based ink is what all news papers are printed from now and some food decorations also.
All in all I think each could be dumped.


P.S. UH... Where do I sign up?

Answer 2

No arguments here. Our government is and continues to grow further and further out of control. As long as congress can continue in this manner, they WILL. That's why I was and remain a strong proponent of the line item veto. At least that may cut down on some of the insanity. These pork riders on good bills are just insane.

Answer 3

The perils of a Plutocratic democracy.

Answer 4

Didn't the last Congress have somewhere around 6000 of these "entitlement's".


O wait, they were the conservative party, must have been someone else.

Love diotsreside, guess he thinks the democrates were in charge the last 6 years, ya think.

Answer 5

The "Bridge to Nowhere" costs more than all those combined!

Answer 6

"$219,000 to teach college students how to watch television."

Have we become so stupid that we now need to learn how to watch television?!?

Good post.

Answer 7

Obviously alot of time on your hands and worried about money.

Answer 8

Pork, the Democrats' favorite meal.