[snakeoil]

More than $3.5 million in taxpayer money has been spent this year subsidizing little-used, sometimes empty commercial flights out of two local airports, according to a review by the News4 I-Team.

Those flights, from Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Maryland and Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport in Weyers Cave, Virginia are part of a controversial federal program called Essential Air Service.

The program, which costs $246 million nationwide each year and supports several dozen airports in small cities, is under increasing scrutiny amid tight federal budgets. The I-Team’s review found some of the local flights depart without passengers or nearly empty loads.

It's not our money, it's taxpayer money. :lol:

[snakeoil]

Sorry, forgot to post the link.

http://www.taxpayer.net/media-center/ar ... d-virginia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[snakeoil]

More.

The National Institutes of Health is spending nearly a half a million dollars for researchers to observe how much time preschoolers in daycare spend outdoors.

The project will also use GPS and light sensors to track kids’ physical activity levels in a “robust” effort to fight childhood obesity.

“Physical activity lowers the risk of obesity in children, is independently associated with numerous benefits related to health and well-being, and tracks from preschool-age to adolescence,” according to a grant awarded to Seattle Children’s Hospital. “The amount of time preschoolers spend outdoors is thought to correlate with their physical activity levels.”http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend ... s-outdoors

http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spend ... -outdoors/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[johnforbes]

As a frugal person and a taxpayer, I would like to reveal my findings:

Fat kids are everywhere because they eat too much, don't grow up doing farm/ranch work, and don't exercise.

[RealJustme]

“The amount of time preschoolers spend outdoors is thought to correlate with their physical activity levels.”

Our tax dollars at work :roll:

[Clownkicker]

Yes, outrageous!

Why do the Republicans in Congress continue to let this sort of thing go on?

[Intrepid]

Excessive, long term drug abuse results in a loss of cognitive skills. A normal person is able to follow the discussion but a junkie pothead stoner is easily confused, as our resident Marxist, homo junkie pothead stoner demonstrates.
Or he is just playing his silly ass word games again.

[Clownkicker]

Pinky Boy Crank Skank Loser Insipid still doesn't understand that money for wasteful government programs is provided by Congress. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Intrepid]

I Crack the whip, and the trained chimp stands ready to immediately jump. Just as he has been trained. Complete with a meaningless array of his impotent emoticons.

Now dance some more, chimp.

[johnforbes]

Given his intellectual depth (i.e., less than the typical mud puddle), and his years in Frisco, Clownswisher has been whipped figuratively and literally.

[snakeoil]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... t-expenses" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Ten Most Ridiculous Ways the Government Wastes Your Money

[sillydaddy]

Let us "hope" our dear President makes a "change" on all this......who once said he could go at it alone....

[snakeoil]

Ah, Washington. The never ending ways they think of to spend tax dollars. Like, teaching wine making to minors ($853,000,) studying monkeys placed in hamster exercise balls ($1 million,) how koozies keep your beer cool ($1.3 million,) a party bus ($ a steal at only $3 million,) political parties in Pakistan ($21.3 million,) the world's most expensive gas station ($43 million,) a fat suit ($17,500,) dating secrets of the unattractive ($276,000,) cartooning in India ($35,000,) Russian maker faire festivals ($50,000,) a life sized Pac-Man (1.2 million.)

The full report (286 pages)

http://www.flake.senate.gov/public/_cac ... wakens.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Article

http://cagw.org/media/press-releases/ca ... k%E2%80%9D" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Dogzilla]

Don't forget that SOMEbody has to pay for the mental facility that houses Painful Toothache. That place must spend a forture in sewage disposal alone.