God’s corrections are instructions, His lashes our lessons, His scourges our schoolmasters, His chastisements our admonitions! And to note this, the Hebrews and Greeks both do express chastening and teaching by one and the same word, because the latter is the true end of the former.
Thomas Brooks

Stop Thief

Stop Thief

STOP!! THIEF!!

It has been costing taxpayers $243,000 to water bureaucrats’ office plants.

The Department of Energy gave an inventive, forward-looking genius in Missouri $1,200 to design and build a solar heated outhouse.

The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration spent $27,000 to find out why inmates want to escape from prison.

The National Science Foundation spent $84,000 to study “why people fall in love.”

The Smithsonian Institute spent $89,000 to publish a dictionary in the Taotzil language, which is spoken by a small, obscure tribe in Mexico.

The Federal Highway Administration wasted $220,000 of the taxpayers’ money on an idiot’s questionnaire asking whether large trucks contribute to traffic congestion.

The Department of Labor spent $385,000 for a door-to-door census of every dog, cat, and horse in Ventura County, California.

The U .S. Navy paid $110 each for diodes. They normally cost four cents. Navy cargo ships are repaired at a cost reportedly fifty-eight times greater than similar commercial vehicles.

A $97,000 grant by the National Institute for Mental Health was spent in part on the study of a Peruvian brothel. The researchers vested “three weeks of evening work” in making about twenty visits to a “house of ill repute.” They found, through “formal” and “informal” interiews with prostitutes, that the brothel was a gathering place for men.

The Justice Department paid $734,371 to determine whether Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler magazines contribute to juvenile delinquency.

The National Endowment for the Humanities granted $2,500 to Arlington County, Virginia, to study why people are rude, cheat, and lie on local tennis courts.

Many people believe the only way to eliminate the deficit is by either making serious cuts in important social and defense programs or by enacting a massive income tax increase.

However, the Grace Commission has documented $24 billion waste over three years–enough to eliminate the deficit without tax increases or cuts in important domestic and defense spending.

But powerful special interest groups who live off of the government waste are fighting hard to block Grace Commission recommendations.

–American Way Features

–Straight Talk