Posted on 07/10/2015 5:44:59 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
(Washington Times) – Since 2012 the government has spent nearly $2 million on a campaign to get women to nag the men in their lives to quit using smokeless tobacco.
The National Institutes of Health has sponsored a continuing grant for the Oregon Research Institute to “evaluate an innovative approach that encourages male smokeless tobacco users to quit by enlisting the support of their wives/partners, both to lead smokeless tobacco users to engage in treatment and to help them sustain abstinence.”
Researchers had already “established that women can be readily recruited” to get their husbands to quit chewing tobacco, but now the project is going a step further with a multimedia push that includes a website with an interactive and tailored support plan.
Researchers will conduct a randomized clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of the cessation program.
(Excerpt) Read more at teaparty.org ...
You don’t need $2 million for that! Just document the lives of Michelle or Hillary.
It sounds like the idiot “researchers” are wasting taxpayer funds on promoting wifes to nag their husbands. How sick. How inappropriate.
OUT!
No room for that crap in this house.
/johnny
And yet, they still nag...
Did Michelle Obama nag someone into spending the money in the first place?
This is right up there with
Government Spends $15 Million To Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
http://mrconservative.com/2013/06/19582-government-spends-15-million-to-study-why-lesbians-are-fat/
Link provided for reference only. Do not click!
In an unintended consequence noted by the study, the rate of divorce among those studied soared 75% over others in the same demographic. /s
Someone help me here... which line item does this fall under, I’m not sure:
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That is all well and good but I would think common sense would tell our lawmakers that this is not an appropriate use of taxpayer money.
Common sense in Washington - how silly of me to suggest such a thing.
Mine says anything she says that I don’t like, I claim is nagging.
I remember back when I was married, when my wife would try to kiss me, I told her no way was I kissing the lips that chewed my ass all day.
The terms “Common Sense” and “lawmakers” should never be used in the same sentence, as they are like oil and water.
Being incompatible, the only way to have things work properly is to have them spend money on items from a list of acceptable areas, as provided in the previous post.
On the other hand, the terms “spending on things from a list” and “lawmakers” are like oil and water...
That South Park “Wheel of Fortune” episode said it all: Naggers are people who annoy us!
Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.
How much is the study on ball-busting wives gonna cost?
Actually if they can find a cure, I believe this is money very well spent.
I think the federal authority for encouraging wives to nag comes under “raising armies.”
Look, when a man says he’ll do something, he’ll do it.
You don’t have to remind him every six months.
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