[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.

[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.

[Nachum]

The list, ping