How Congress Spends Taxes

The following are just a few of the government’s operations that have squandered your hard-earned money. Ask yourself if you think these funds could have been better used to benefit the American people or not collected in the first place.

The National Science Foundation approved a $100,000 grant to a New York college professor to spend two years in Puerto Rico studying frogs.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has authorized $90,058 for two Makah Indians to preserve a language spoken by only TWENTY-FOUR of their tribesmen.

Over a 25-year period, the U.S. spent over 250 BILLION DOLLARS to finance BOTH side of FOURTEEN WARS!

$27,000 in Foreign Aid was spent to send a potato chip machine to Morocco, which doesn’t even grow potatoes!

THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION granted Harvard University $750,000 to study how water puts out fire. Another $203,800 to aid migrant farm workers who become lost on the freeways of the city of Los Angeles. Still another $120,000 to study why people say "ain’t." Another $160,000 to teach mothers how to play with their babies. Another $19,300 to find out why children fall off tricycles.

The National Institute of Mental Health spent $97,000 to study "Behavior and Social Relationships" in a BROTHEL in Peru, Grant #M 1119712.

The Federal Aviation Administration spent $420,000 for new meteorological instruments so they can be read from the inside; the existing instruments do the same thing, but they had to be read outside.

The National Institute of Mental Health spent $500,000 to study homosexuals. Over 7,000 paid for one sex change operation.

The National Science Foundation spent $84,000 to study why people fall in love. Another $11,000 to study the African climate.

The FAA spent $57,800 for a study of body measurements of airline stewardesses.

The Federal Government spent $200,000 to subsidize Broadway plays that would have folded. They spent $375,000 for the Navy to study the Frisbee. $95,000 to study breading habits of the cockroach.