Hey, American Taxpayers, did you see the Reader's Digest this month? Ooooh, have they got some goodie examples of Federal Spending Gone Crazy. And the wisdom of college debt? Read it here.
NUTSO FEDERAL SPENDING.
* Redundant engine program for the R-35 fighter jet, cost $207 million
* Benefit checks sent to dead government employees, cost $120 million
* International Center for the History of Electronic Games for video game preservation, cost $113,227
* Columbia University, to study online dating, cost $606,000
* To researchers at Wellesley College to answer the question, Do you trust your Twitter feed, cost
$492,005
* Virginia Commonwealth University researcher for a study on hookah smoking by Jordanian students,
cost $55,382
* University of California, Riverside, to study whether happy or unhappy people spend more time on
social media, cost $198,195
* Primate researchers to study what feces-throwing among chimps reveals about communication
skills, cost $592,527
* National Science Foundation to study Women, Weaving and Wool in Iceland between the years
AD 874-1800.
AND THE WISDOM OF RUNNING UP COLLEGE DEBT?
Colleges are asking students and parents to break the college piggy bank for these classes:
How To Watch Television (Montclair State)
Alien Sex (University of Rochester)
Harry Potter: Finding Your Patronus (Oregon State)
Arguing with Judge Judy (University of California, Berkeley)
Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame (University of S. Carolina)
Mail Order Brides: Understanding the Ph8illippines (Johns Hopkins)
Tightwaddeery, or the Good Life on a Dollar a Day (Alfred University)
Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse (Michigan State)
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