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Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program
CSN News ^ | 9/13/10 | Matt Cover

Posted on 09/14/2010 4:37:24 PM PDT by November 2010

(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.

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I'm all for washing genitals. But spending my total taxes for I don't know how many years of my life on Africans learning to wash their groin? See . . . laugh, cry, revolt? Vomit?
1 posted on 09/14/2010 4:37:26 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: November 2010

Funny thread on this story here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2588215/posts


2 posted on 09/14/2010 4:39:33 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia; moder_ator

Hi moderator. Looks like I posted a dupe. Please end thread. I searched “genital” and “african.”


3 posted on 09/14/2010 4:41:54 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: November 2010

Well Obama did promise change.


4 posted on 09/14/2010 4:44:07 PM PDT by True Grit
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To: November 2010

Large Meatballs ping.


5 posted on 09/14/2010 4:44:26 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: November 2010

Obama and the democrats sharing their expertise - after all, they’re an enormous bunch of dirty pr*cks...


6 posted on 09/14/2010 4:44:30 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: November 2010

I don’t think I would admit that in public!


7 posted on 09/14/2010 4:46:23 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: November 2010

It has always bugged me when reporting idiocies like this that a money amount is used, which is brushed off by the public as “someone else’s money”, i.e. generic taxpayer funds. I wish some prescient politician (any left?) would instead say, “The taxes of the residents of (any city in any state) were spent for . . .”. When you start personalizing the waste, people will, instead of shrugging, say, “HEY, wait a minute!” and start holding the spenders’ feet to the fire.


8 posted on 09/14/2010 4:46:42 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: November 2010

I hereby volunteer to go to Africa to teach female Africans how to wash their genitals.


9 posted on 09/14/2010 4:48:09 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: November 2010

We should be questioning why government stimulated itself instead of us.


10 posted on 09/14/2010 4:50:39 PM PDT by omega4179
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To: November 2010

Another stimulus package or is that package stimulus.


11 posted on 09/14/2010 4:52:18 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw them all out in 2010... Forward with Confidence! Forward!)
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To: La Lydia

I don’t think I would admit that in public!
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LOL.


12 posted on 09/14/2010 4:54:18 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: November 2010

Obama blaming it on Mr. Boner.


13 posted on 09/14/2010 4:58:38 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: November 2010

This should make it very clear it is past time for a counter revolution. What more has to be said.


14 posted on 09/14/2010 5:00:03 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: screaminsunshine

Obama blaming it on Mr. Boner.
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Think this program qualifies as nepotism on the part of Obama?


15 posted on 09/14/2010 5:03:07 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: November 2010

Send them cases of Axe to wash their balls.


16 posted on 09/14/2010 5:05:05 PM PDT by boomop1
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To: November 2010

This would be a great subject for Campaign ad about government waste. I want all my taxes I ever paid refunded if they can waste it like this.


17 posted on 09/14/2010 5:07:51 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (counter revolutionary)
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To: screaminsunshine

http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/2010/08/12/new-video-can-you-tell-which-of-these-government-spending-projects-are-real-or-fake/


18 posted on 09/14/2010 5:10:29 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: screaminsunshine

This should make it very clear it is past time for a counter revolution. What more has to be said.
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Yes. This ultimately makes me angry. I work so hard and they take over 10% of my income just for 2 taxes, SS and Medical (don’t forget that employers double what we spend on Social Security, Medicaire and Medicaid). Then they do this.


19 posted on 09/14/2010 5:12:55 PM PDT by November 2010
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To: True Grit

Well Obama did promise change.

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Is this a clean start? I thought they were teaching them to wash AFTER they finished . . .


20 posted on 09/14/2010 5:14:24 PM PDT by November 2010
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