Rand Paul Gives Us Festivus!
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Oh, it’s that time of year again, folks. No, I’m not talking about returning Christmas presents you didn’t want. I’m talking about Rand Paul’s annual Festivus Report. Yes, all about government squander. Here we go. Ninth year in a row, it’s come out. $900 billion in government waste. Rand Paul happened to.
find in this report. This is your and I. This is our tax dollars. This is the people of Washington, D.C. This is how they spend our hard-earned money. So we got this. We spent money to study Russian cats on treadmills. Again, it sounds like something that would be on TikTok that some kid would do. Oh yeah, oh by the way, they found out that photos of Barbies
were used as identification to obtain COVID relief funds. That’s how pathetic these COVID relief programs were. People were using photos of Barbie to get themselves government cash. Department of Defense lost $169 million of equipment because they just left it outside. Yeah, I’m not making this up. Again, you’ve got kids.
Kids do dumb things. They can be irresponsible, leave stuff outside. But no, this is the United States military. Lost 169 million dollars worth of equipment because they left it outside and it got ruined. We spent six million dollars, went towards tourism in Egypt. Why are we giving them money to mark? I don’t know. I don’t know. The SBA provided over 200 million dollars to
struggling music artists, including Post Malone, Chris Brown and Little Wayne. Yep, world was to blame, ran asses were all to blame because of this. Both parties do this. We elect these same people again and again and again, and both the elephants and the donkeys team up to continue to stick it to we the taxpayers. Some other things in here.
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Yeah, over $30 million to study transgender monkey research. That’s right. They were, you know, in essence, basically, the lab work to make male lab monkeys transgender to address social injustices suffered by transgender persons, such as transgender women individuals who are assigned a male sex at birth, but express their gender.
along a female spectrum. Again, I don’t even understand what that means. I don’t get it at all, but yeah, you spent money force-feeding monkeys, hormones that they shouldn’t be taken. Oh yeah, they did another one here. This is a dog walking research that they did. Researchers found that the Labrador’s fur color did not affect their body temperatures after a hot summer’s walk.
Again, this is very, very useful information for all of us to have and well worth our tax dollars, especially when we’re $34 trillion in debt. I can go on and on, but again, it’s the stupidity of it all. And again, next time, next time you hear some politician, I don’t care if it’s a donkey or elephant telling you that they’re there to cut spending, laugh at them because they’re lying to you.
