An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
$1,655,000
Do you ever feel like your employees are giving you the shaft? That’s probably because….they are!
Government watchdogs say those trips are a waste of taxpayer money, and they’re not alone on an eye-popping list of NEH funding for projects, including:
* $400,000 for an exhibition “exploring the importance of plants as a source of inspiration for noted American poet Emily Dickinson”
* $350,000 to explore the “cultural significance of the circus poster”
* $725,000 to produce a two-hour documentary on the history of American whaling.
* $130,000 for 16 professors to study the “truth and meaning” of life according to Aristotle
* $50,000 to build a computer model of an ancient city in Pakistan complete with “animated and interactive ‘inhabitants’”
This is NOT why we pay taxes! And they wonder why we are so pissed off??
Wow…I just saw one of the scariest, and most disturbing movies I have ever seen, and it was made for $11,000. Yet it costs 725 grand to make a documentary on the whaling industry? Seeing stuff like that really makes me wonder if the stuff this money is being spent on, is really the stuff that money is being spent on. Truth really is stranger than fiction
And it’s getting stranger and stranger by the day!