Posted on 10/22/2014 7:39:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
More than a dozen lucky rabbits were given Swedish massages four times a day, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, as part of a study to figure out whether massage can help recovery times after strenuous exercise — a practice Sen. Tom Coburn says makes a mockery of federal spending.
The rabbit massages are one of the hundred wasteful products Mr. Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, identified in his latest edition of the Wastebook, an annual compendium of the ridiculous and outrageous items in government spending, which he is releasing on Wednesday.
Other highlights included the National Science Foundation paying academics to teach monkeys to gamble, government sponsorship of a children’s play about brain-eating zombies and a first-person combat shooting video game the Army developed — but which intelligence officials fear terrorists could use to train their own recruits. Indeed, Hezbollah has adapted the game’s design to train suicide martyrs.
Mr. Coburn’s investigators also found scientists putting mountain lions, monkeys, rats and cows on treadmills. That’s reminiscent of a previous famous item Mr. Coburn spotted that involved sticking shrimp on a treadmill to try to see if tired shrimp were less healthy.
“Only someone with too much of someone else’s money and not enough accountability for how it was being spent could come up [with] some of the zany projects the government paid for this year,” Mr. Coburn said upon releasing the report.
In the case of the rabbits, they weren’t put on treadmills but were forced to exercise in order to create stress.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
All told, Tom Coburn’s Wastebook lists 100 separate items costing taxpayers $25 billion.It’s the tip of the iceberg, of course, and Coburn realizes that. But perhaps even more outrageously, government departments and agencies are refusing to cooperate with Coburn’s annual descent into the muck of government waste.
Not to mention my salary.
Don’t be anti-rabbit. Support massage therapy!
Bunny massage video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j97EJQ1z7nY
I’m not sure the term “bunny massage” is SFW.
“....Swedish massages four times a day, courtesy of U.S. taxpayers, as part of a study to figure out whether massage can help recovery times after strenuous exercise....”
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Whoever initiated that study and those that approved of it should all be fired.
The manager advised me that I should order something, whether we needed it or not, because our budget may be cut.
It seems our government operates in the same way.
Massaging my monkey....not so much, depending
curious to hear Laz's thoughts
Did the massage have a hoppy ending?
Spanking monkeys: Sinful.
Amazing how important the little things are when its OPM (other people’s money).
We should be able to elect all government grant givers. And fire them.
Those rabbits are now going to be voting Dem for the next three generations, at least til next year.
White-rabbit power!!!
It would have been better to use a HUMAN as they are the real target of a study.
What a total waste of tax $$.
Yep, since they were euthanized after the study, that’s the only way they will get to vote -— with the other dead Dems that vote every election day!!!
"Might as well set it (money) on fire. You'd get the same result only quicker."
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Rabbits have feelings too and anyone depriving them of massage therapy is just a hater - a rabbit-hater...
*snicker*
What is more odd....NO ONE EVER DOES ANYTHING ABOUT IT!
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