Sen.
Tom Coburn (R-OK) released his annual
“Wastebook” detailing $6.5 billion in ludicrous government spending
including $765,000 to subsidize “pancakes for yuppies” in the nation’s capital.
Would you like
a smoke and a pancake? You know, flapjack and a cigarette? No? All right. Cigar
and a waffle? No? Pipe and a crepe? No? Bong and a blintz? No? Oh, well, then
there is no pleasing you.
The items on
Coburn's list include $10 million for a remake of "Sesame Street" for
Pakistan and $764,825 to examine how college students use mobile devices for
social networking.
The
"Wastebook" also claims $550,000 was spent for a documentary about
how rock music contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as
$48,700 for a festival promoting Hawaii's chocolate industry.
Coburn
said, “This is not a Christmas wish list, these are just some of the ways the
federal government spent your tax dollars.”
"Instead
of cutting wasteful spending, nearly $2.5 billion was added each day in 2011 to
our national debt, which now exceeds $15 trillion," Coburn said adding, "perhaps
there was no bigger waste of the taxpayer's money in 2011 than Congress
itself."
Maybe those
subsidized yuppies in D.C. can invite the
shrimp on the treadmill over to IHOP for a bong and blintz. Just sayin’…
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