California Welfare Follow Up

From the American Thinker this week, we get a similar story of UK welfare waste.  Click through to the UK Daily Mail's story on how a women from England earns roughly $65,000 a year and has never worked a day in her life.

As opined above, these programs are the true costs of our economic undoings.

Tax Dollars for Mosques

Along with the slap in the face less than 5 blocks from ground zero.  Unbeknown to most, we have been funding the travels of the imam behind the NYC Mosque.  Oh, and if that's not bad enough, we are also paying to refurbish several high profile Mosques over seas! 

Excellent allocation of funds!  We're in a recession, headed towards a depression, and we can fund Mosque refurbishments in other countries!  Empire gone south we have become! 

QOTD: Irrational Exuberance

"Instead, what we'll get for our money out of this particular jobs spending is a few high monkeys, a covey of stoned quail, and a bit of temporary employment for a handful of grad students and a few crack professors."

Today's QOTD comes from Ralph R. Reiland at the American Spectator and references just how much waste and absurdity exists from the Fed Gov.  Often referred to as Irrational Exuberance, the disconnect from Pennsylvania Avenue to Main Street, USA is so redunkulious, it can do nothing be fester a totally disgusting taste in one's mouth.

Reiland was examining just what was in the so called "jobs" bill and how it could have been better spent, if it was meant to be spent in the first place. 

"As part of the recent non-stimulating stimulus bills, Wake Forest University received $71,623 to "study how monkeys react under cocaine." There's also a grant of $181,000 to see how cocaine enhances the sex drive of Japanese quail.

"That's $252,623, enough loan money in this down economy to pay for a year's rent at a dozen storefronts, a strong incentive for the launching of startup companies that could well have the potential of hiring hundreds of people off the unemployment rolls."

Seems to me, that it is just further evidence from Today's other post that Mr. Roberts has it backwards on where we need to cut budget spending.