Posted on 12/27/2024 1:28:32 PM PST by george76
$10K was spent on a 'bearded lady' ice skating show, just one of numerous examples of frivolous federal spending highlighted by the Sen. Rand Paul
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The 2024 Festivus Waste Report found that the Biden-Harris administration spent over $1 trillion this year, including giving a $10,000 grant to "Beards on Ice" — an ice skating drag show on climate change put on by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, a self-described "queer cabaret arts organization."..
Agency for International Development (USAID) spent $20 million on a Sesame Street spin-off show in Iraq, titled "Ahlan Simsim," in an effort to promote "inclusion" and "mutual respect."
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About $1.5 million was spent experimenting how different species, such as young female kittens, respond to motion sickness...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly gave New York University (NYU) over $400,000 to study whether lonely rats seek cocaine more than rats who are in positive environments, while the Department of the Interior (DOI) allocated $12 million to fund a pickleball complex in Las Vegas
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The State Department spent $3 million on "Girl-Centered Climate Action" in Brazil, a program reportedly designed to "empower young women to become climate leaders by integrating equity and inclusivity into environmental activism
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As the average American taxpayers struggle to pay rent, their hard-earned dollars are ironically funneled into more real estate," the report read, referring to the Biden struggles spending $10 billion on maintaining and furnishing buildings that were almost entirely empty.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) gave automakers $15.5 billion to push the industry into the electric vehicle (EV) sector
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Biden administration giving $2.1 million to fund Paraguay's border: "Nothing says 'America First' like securing someone else’s border,
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I would never have let my kid watch Sesame Street, or any of those PBS shows, frankly, I didn’t allow television.


My favorite living Republican.
RE: never watch Sesame Street....
2014
CBS News
Actor Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo on “Sesame Street” for 28 years, has been cleared of sex abuse charges, according to The Hollywood Reporter (THR) .
An appeals court threw out the three charges against Clash, 53, saying the claims were made outside New York’s statute of limitations.
Clash was charged with sexual abuse by three men who said he molested them when they were minors, more than 10 years ago. But New York law states that a lawsuit must be filed within six years of the alleged event, or three years after a plaintiff turns 21, THR reports.
At the time of his resignation from the show he stated:
“Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work ‘Sesame Street’ is doing and I cannot allow it to go on any longer.”
Bkmk
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