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Title: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: roo_ster on August 13, 2010, 11:57:03 AM: http://www.bankruptingamerica.org/2010/08/12/new-video-can-you-tell-which-of-these-government-spending-projects-are-real-or-fake/

Where does one start?

Well, an economics major interviews several folks and asks them if a particular stimulus project is real or fake.

As for my comment...drunk chinese turtles FTW!
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: Ryan in Maine on August 13, 2010, 04:35:29 PM: :facepalm: * Infinity
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: Monkeyleg on August 13, 2010, 05:35:33 PM: Quote
As for my comment...drunk chinese turtles FTW!

No, no, no. It's funny drunk Chinese turtles with loose morals.
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: PTK on August 13, 2010, 07:07:38 PM: WTH is the USA government doing giving money to folks to do a study about prostitutes in CHINA?!
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: taurusowner on August 13, 2010, 07:43:36 PM: Quote from: PTK on August 13, 2010, 07:07:38 PM
WTH is the USA government doing giving money to folks to do a study ~~about prostitutes in CHINA?!~~

FTFY. 100% of government grants in every field everywhere should be totally and permanently discontinued.
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: sanglant on August 13, 2010, 08:32:15 PM: Quote from: PTK on August 13, 2010, 07:07:38 PM
WTH is the USA government doing giving money to folks to do a study about prostitutes in CHINA?!
they heard one said, "me love you long time?" :angel:

or they just watched M*A*S*H. [popcorn]
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: Perd Hapley on August 14, 2010, 09:22:29 AM: Did anyone else notice that they actually found a joke-telling robot to interview?
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: Firethorn on August 14, 2010, 09:32:26 AM: Quote from: Ragnar Danneskjold on August 13, 2010, 07:43:36 PM
FTFY. 100% of government grants in every field everywhere should be totally and permanently discontinued.

Eh, I figure that stuff like finding the next gun for issue to our troops, or a new bomb system, etc... That's in the government's interest. I'll even say things for public safety - like a study determining just how much various amounts of intoxication affect driving ability, for example. That helps set a GOOD limit for DUI.

Beyond that? More questionable.
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: Ben on August 14, 2010, 07:21:17 PM: Who is the woman doing the interview? She looks really familiar in a "I saw her on TV or something" kind of way.
Title: Re: Can you tell which of these government spending projects are real or fake?
Post by: Nitrogen on August 14, 2010, 09:27:21 PM: The turtle tunnel sounds like waste but if you read about it, it makes a lot more sense. Turtles (and other animals) were getting creamed on a freeway. (Cars get damaged when creamed by larger animals) so this might make a bit of sense.

The joke telling robot and blackberries for smokers is pretty stupid, though. The blackberries for smokers is actually a good program, but I wouldn't want my tax dollars funding it.