Can someone help me find a thread? Its the one where someone wrote a really long list of programs that we could cut that are useless uses of money. I can't remember which thread it was though.

It was me.

<a href='http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/ncaa/invision/index.php?act=ST&f=31&t=12906&hl=pork' target='_blank'>Here's</a> the thread and I pasted the examples I used below.

Quote:YOu mean how many wreckless forms of spending should be cut in order for me to keep more of WHAT I EARN? Let's see, I'd probably start with these

$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

From there I'd go to
$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 Garden."
$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

And after that I'd lose
$6 million to upgrade the two-block long Senate subway.
$350,000 to renovate the House Beauty Salon.
$250,000 to study TV lighting in the Senate meeting rooms.
$130,000 for a Congressional video-conferencing project.
Total: $6,730,000

And after I had cut 162+ million dollars from the budget and get rid of any money appropriated for yet another building in West Virginia that would bare the name of Sheets Byrd.

Thanks

Ninerfan1 Wrote:$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.

this actually is an enviromental problem. Cow farts do more damage to the ozone layer than humans

Fanatical Wrote:

Ninerfan1 Wrote:$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.

this actually is an enviromental problem. Cow farts do more damage to the ozone layer than humans

What is 19 million dollars gonna do to fix it?

Cow don't poot, cow go boom. Then we'd have to spend 119 million dollars to find out why cow go boom. And we'd have to listen to PETA.

Lethemeul Wrote:

Fanatical Wrote:

Ninerfan1 Wrote:$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.

this actually is an enviromental problem. Cow farts do more damage to the ozone layer than humans

What is 19 million dollars gonna do to fix it?

Cow don't poot, cow go boom. Then we'd have to spend 119 million dollars to find out why cow go boom. And we'd have to listen to PETA.

its used to find out ways to lower the amount of methane being produced through research of using different plants or bacteria

Unfortunately its the groups like PETA which would call this cruel and try to stop or prolong any research

Lethemeul Wrote:

Fanatical Wrote:

Ninerfan1 Wrote:$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.

this actually is an enviromental problem. Cow farts do more damage to the ozone layer than humans

What is 19 million dollars gonna do to fix it?

Cow don't poot, cow go boom. Then we'd have to spend 119 million dollars to find out why cow go boom. And we'd have to listen to PETA.

:lolup: :lolup: :lolup:

Especially if they're in Southpark, Co.


BTW, if they DO cause more damage to the Ozone, why all the fuss about SUV's? Haven't cows been around a HELLUVA lot longer? K...what about Brontosaurus's???? I'm sure they could rip a good one. Again, the entire SUV deal was only an issue of jealousy. It's seen as a status symbol and the leftists hate success. Kinda why Jeep Wranglers, MUCH worse at EPA concerns, were never targeted by the ELF...the morons.

Fanatical Wrote:

Ninerfan1 Wrote:$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.

this actually is an enviromental problem. Cow farts do more damage to the ozone layer than humans

Anyone seen Ron White on Comedy Central?

"What are you doing to help the environment?"

"I'm eating the cows."