by This is from Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator, and you won’t believe it. This is not about Kentucky, it’s about spending in the US.
Every Wednesday, I highlight an area of government waste uncovered by my team and me. This past week, I shined a light on the Department of Defense (DOD) which spent $8,395 to acquire a lobster tank from a restaurant equipment company in Springfield, Virginia.
You can read more about the DOD’s lobster tank and other waste that your government spent your hard earned tax dollars on HERE. (you can hit here for yourself but to fill out the page I’ll add some of his findings)
The Waste of 2023
Barbie Doll Photo Used to Get COVID PPP Funds…………………….portion of $800,000,000,000
In the RED: Interest on Our National Debt is Expensive ……………..…………….$659,000,000,000
Dr. Fauci’s Monkey Business on NIH’s “Monkey Island”……………………..………..….$33,200,000
USAID Fund to Boost Egyptian Tourism…………………………………………………………………$6,000,000
USDA’s Cutting-Edge Research: Walking Dogs in the Summer……………………………..Unknown
DHS Training Employees to Be Their “Authentic & Best Selves”……………..……………..Unknown
Russian Cats-On-A-Treadmill Studies Funded by NIH……………………..…..portion of $2,700,000
The Government Pays Dead People … Again!…..…………………………………………$38,000,000
DOD’s Lobster Tank………………………………………………………………………………….$8,395
How to Ruin Expensive Military Equipment Part 1: Engines………………………………$89,000,000
How to Ruin Expensive Military Equipment Part 2: Transmissions……………………….$12,600,000
How to Ruin Expensive Military Equipment Part 3: Tank Treads………………………….$68,000,000
“Real Fake”: DHS’s 1st Graphic Novel About Disinformation…………………………………Unknown
DHS’s 2
nd Graphic Novel: COVID Disinformation…………..…………………………………Unknown
NIH’s Meth-Head Monkeys………………………………………………………portion of $12,000,000
Treasury’s Pot of Cash for Political Campaigns……………………………….……….…$400,000,000
NIH’s Monkey Casino: Gambling for Drinking Water………………….………..portion of $3,700,000
SBA’s Ticket to Backstage………………………………………………….……………….$200,000,000
Studying COVID-19 “Misinformation” On Social Media In Black & Rural Communities…$3,800,000
Dr. Fauci’s Transgender Monkey Study…………………………………………………………$477,121
Whoopsie: Improper Federal Payments………………………………………………$236,000,000,000
FLASHBACK: The Government Likes Its Gambling Monkeys…………………………….…$171,000
Dr. Fauci’s Monkey Business:
$33.2 Million to Run NIH’s “Monkey Island”
What’s known to South Carolina locals as “Monkey Island” is Dr. Fauci’s
~3,000-monkey colony, raised on a state-owned island. The National
Institutes of Health (NIH) signed a $33.2 million contract with a local
business to house, feed, and care for these monkeys before they’re shipped
to research labs around the country.
The federal government established the colony in the late 1970s, though the
multi-million dollar contract to care for the monkeys changed hands a few
times. NIH also paid millions to a large pharmaceutical company to maintain
Dr. Fauci’s Monkey Island.
Monkey business is a big business.
The Government Paid $38 Million to Dead People!
U.S. officials testified that another $38 million in COVID
payments — an average of $83,000 each — went to people
Uncle Sam knew were dead. The figures came from the special
task force Congress authorized to track COVID payments from
the federal government. Specifically, $10 million was paid to
individuals who were already dead on the date someone
applied for funding. The government doled out $1.3 million of
your money to 30 individuals who were dead for at least a year,
in what fraud inspectors deemed one of the “particularly
egregious examples.”
This was not the first time Uncle
Sam tracked taxpayer funds to the
mailboxes of the dead. By April 30,
2020, the U.S. Treasury’s Inspector
General knew $1.4 billion (of $269
billion total) was sent out to more
than one million Americans who filed
taxes in previous years, and then
died, yet still received checks
intended as COVID stimulus
payments.
Not all the funds were recovered, as dead people are notoriously bad about
paying up.
USDA’s Cutting-Edge Research: Walking Hot Dogs
When you walk outside in the summer, you get hot. When Labrador
retrievers are walked outside in the summer, they also get hot.
Getting hot while walking outside in the heat might be obvious to you, but
the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) allocated “cuttingedge” research funding to support a summer study that walked 16 dogs—of
two different colors — and measured their rectal temperatures.
Researchers found the Labradors’ fur color did not affect their body
temperatures after a hot summer’s walk. That’s it. That’s the taxpayerfunded, cutting-edge study.
The Agricultural Research Service at the USDA, which funded the study at
Southern Illinois University, gets $1.7 billion a year from Congress, but it’s
unknown how much the hot dog study cost the taxpayer.
Perhaps taxpayers should have Congress put USDA on a tighter fiscal
leash.
Barbie Doll Photo Used to Get COVID PPP Funds
The faces of Barbie’s Dream World played a role in the fiscal nightmare that
was COVID-19 spending. Government spending was already out of control
when Congress approved $800 billion in COVID Paycheck Protection
Program (PPP) funds. As federal agencies hustled to get the funds out
quickly, it came as no surprise when swindlers rushed to line up for their cut
of the COVID cash.
Some of us saw the writing on the wall and predicted that shutting down our
economy and printing more money to pay the nation to stay home from work
would be a fiscal disaster. But using Barbie’s face as proof of identity to
steal taxpayer dollars was not on my COVID waste bingo card.
What was supposed to be an AI system to verify proof of identity, quickly
exposed the stupidity of the program. The verification system did not catch
the images of dolls uploaded by fraudsters. Somehow the Small Business
Administration carelessly approved the applicants from Toyland and sent
out improper COVID-19 PPP payments
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I couldn’t copy the actual pictures in the pdf so I had to go to images and I did the best I could. Please go to the “Here” above which should be highlighted and hit that to see the full report. It’s absolutely the most ridiculous waste of money I’ve seen on our backs as taxpayers.