{"id":23604,"date":"2011-05-26T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23604"},"modified":"2011-05-26T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T22:37:48","slug":"as-useless-as-a-shrimp-on-a-treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23604","title":{"rendered":"As useless as a shrimp on a treadmill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator Tommy Colburn, the guy who brought to light the baby-man on Social Security<\/a>, sets his sights on the National Science Foundation, who is involved in such important research as jello-wrestling at the South Pole, checking the recovery rates of sick shrimp when they work out on a treadmill (how does that even work?). From The Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

At a time when the federal government is struggling with record deficits and bumping up against its borrowing limit, Mr. Coburn said the agency is a prime example of the kinds of spending taxpayers should no longer tolerate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is little, if any, obvious scientific benefit to some NSF projects, such as a YouTube rap video, a review of event ticket prices on stubhub.com, a \u2018robot hoedown and rodeo,\u2019 or a virtual recreation of the 1964\/65 New York World\u2019s Fair,\u201d Mr. Coburn said in a letter to taxpayers he wrote introducing the 73-page report, documented by more than 350 footnotes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s worse is that NSF isn’t even apologetic about the abuse of their funding;<\/p>\n

said Dana Topousis, the spokeswoman. \u201cWe believe that no other funding agency in the world comes close to NSF for giving taxpayers the best return on their investment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, shrimp on a treadmill are absolutely essential to the rest of my life – and it creates jobs and lowers the cost of gasoline to consumers.<\/p>\n

So this is to all of you who keep telling me that veterans have to sacrifice along with everyone else and take our loss of COLA increases and hikes in health care costs for the good of the economy. While this shit is going on? Is “baby man” going to get his SSI payments cut? Is NSF going to take a cut in their ridiculous “studies” of shit that doesn’t matter?<\/p>\n

Bite me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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