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The Waste List: 66 Crazy Ways That The U.S. Government Is Wasting Your Money
- bediger4000 13y agoThese lists, which are by nature based on open data, and things like Sen William Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" awards, just seem stupid. We're supposed to feel outrage about things like item #34: "The National Science Foundation recently spent $30,000 on a study to determine if “gaydar” actually exists.' $30K?!? Big deal - I've paid off more credit card debt than that. The real fat, the Billion dollar fat, is going to be in things that are classified. No oversight, or at best, compartmentalized oversight, is going to lead to stupid, stupid, stupid things that don't work.