Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics

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[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Obama fails to win Nobel prize in economics Commentary: Michael Moore, Timothy Geithner also passed over

While few observers think Obama has done anything for world peace in the nearly nine months he's been in office, the same clearly can't be said for economics.

The president has worked tirelessly since even before his inauguration to wrest control of the U.S. economy from failed free markets, and the evil CEOs who profit from them, and to turn it over to wise, fair and benevolent bureaucrats.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

The comments at this article are funny too. They must be freepers

[Ancient Drive]

ah.. no wonder the flag is flying at half mast at the WH.

[Pessimist]

But the Heisman is still up for grabs. Right?

[mbynack]

Thank goodness the President is saving us from the free market. Can you imagine what this country would be like if everyone was free to spend the money they earn on whatever they wanted? It would be chaos. There would be no funding for Hippy Museums and Peanut Museums. There would be no farm subsidies to pay farmers not to grow crops. Congress wouldn't have spent $350,000 to renovate their private beauty solon. (Can you honestly look at Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank and deny that this was done in the national interest?).

Here's a list of some other things that congress spent our money on that might not have been funded if they hadn't taxed the s%$t out of us.

$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.

[stentorian conservative]

Is that list real?

No way I can believe it.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“$160,000 to study if you can hex an opponent by drawing an X on his chest.”

Where is my marking pen-Pelosi is gone.

[The Great RJ]

Barry could still get the Nobel Prize for Medicine for passing Obamacare.

[The Louiswu]

My understanding was he gave two million to a group claiming you could get a shave and a haircut for 2 bits.

[mbynack]

Yes. It is real. That’s only a small part of it.

[mbynack]

Here are some more examples of government spending. These involve the Lawmakers giving money to private concerns:

$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.

[stentorian conservative]

Where did yo get this list?

[mbynack]

http://www.areddy.net/mscott/pork.html

[mbynack]

Here's the latest "Pig Book" for this year.

http://www.cagw.org/site/DocServer/Pig_Book_full__April_13_2009_.pdf?docID=3561

[stentorian conservative]

Thanks.

I have never read any of the books. I think I might be afraid to. I guess I need to hit the books, so to speak, since I have absolutely no idea how these private endeavors have any claim to tax money legally. I’m talking about things like private docks, restaurants, homes, etc. I could see it if they paid it back. . . maybe.

It simply doesn’t compute.

[dcar99]

His biggest accomplishment to date is winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Barack Obama: The Paris Hilton of politics.

[Nachum]

The list, ping