What's the Stupidest Stimulus Project You've Heard of So Far?
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Oct 24, 2010 at 4:15am
The socially-conscious puppet-show is still to my mind the record holder, but maybe there's a dark-horse candidate I'm overlooking?
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Sep '10
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A friend told me this, so I have no idea where it came from or if its true but he said that he'd read that a township in So Africa got 800k in stimulus money for teaching people to wash their genitals after sex. Sounds believable to me only because its such a small sum inside the giant package.
Jul '10
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Ward, it is true and you are right, that UCLA study --to teach African men how to wash their genitals-wins. Hands down, if I may say.
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At least they didn't combine the socially-conscious puppet show with the African genital-washing education program.
May '10
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I personally can't think of anything worse than a socially-concious puppet show. Except maybe dental surgery.
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Those too could be combined, you know. Or at the very least, research into the possibility could be funded.
Sep '10
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Chances are it's already being funded. Certainly, if they took the money from one the other would gladly join forces to keep the pork rolling in. The thought of the puppets demonstrating it all is hilarious and frightening. Happy Halloween a few days early.
May '10
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The dumbest stimulus project is the one with the highest price tag.
Jul '10
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I would venture that if anybody takes a really deep look into the stimulus package -- hello, Darrell Issa! -- those listed so far will seem like boons to humanity. But for my money (I understand it is mine for only a short time, Lord Obama), the $1 million for the Chicago dinner cruise company to repel pirates or other forms of terrorism is a strong contender for number one. And the $6 million to build a snow-making facility in Duluth is certainly a strong contender. How would you have spent the money anyhow? Admit it -- you would have blown it in some fearful, unscientific way because that's how you are hardwired. Incidentally, how is practicing to snatch off your hat in the presence of your betters coming along? You should have progressed to forelock tugging by now.
Aug '10
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How about:
"$1 million was given to a Chicago dinner cruise company to 'combat terrorism'".
How does this work?
Terrorists itching to blow themselves up take a relaxing dinner cruise and decide that life is worth living after all?
Socially-conscious puppet shows are obnoxious, but nothing new. The role of dinner cruises in combating terrorism: that's new.
Edited on Oct 24, 2010 at 6:30amAug '10
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Gosh, Your Grace -- cross posting!
Great minds and all that.
Aug '10
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What about the John Murtha Memorial Performing Arts grants for Young Mimes ? This program trains mimes to create interactive plays that portray American atrocities such as Haditha and Abu Ghraib . Murtha had a big stake in this as a former Marine . His declaration of their guilt can be backed up by hard-hitting portrayals of the Ansar Islam fighters , the freedom fighters without voices . And the transgressions of Lynndie England who was portrayed as Cruella deVille in camo. Lesser known was the Puzzle Boy, a corporal from Bernslike Privee ,Okla who created horrid human pyramids of naked and frightened Al Qaeda prisoners , mocking their level of geometry instruction in the madrassa. Shocking and brutal. Point being of course, it was all a joke. Passing out deals to every democrat congressman for the pork barrels projects sitting on their desk. Shut them up prior the steamrollers that were coming. He bought obedience with your money . Can't you see Axelrod and Rahm smacking their lips at the prospect. And Obama smiling as he just landed the biggest grant ever for those poor folks he piled up to climb into office . How convenient !
And don't think Cloward Piven wasn't mentioned.
Edited on Oct 24, 2010 at 7:49amJul '10
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Michael Labeit: The dumbest stimulus project is the one with the highest price tag. ·
Some truth in that, though by that standard the 222K to the University of Indiana to study why young men don't like to wear condoms is small beer, yes?
May '10
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In North Carolina stimulus money bought cocaine for monkeys.
Aug '10
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I know this one sounds silly. And I also wonder how it "stimulates" anything -- except the monkeys, of course. And how they get the drugs -- from drug dealers?...
But from reading I've done recently, it seems there's a dearth of controlled studies on what recreational drugs do to the body and brain in the long run. If this is a long-term study rather than another short-term one, perhaps it isn't the worst thing being done with our money.
That science as a whole is so dependent on the federal government for funds -- that's another, bigger, issue.
Edited on Oct 24, 2010 at 7:38amRe: What's the Stupidest Stimulus Project You've Heard of So Far?
That was well-spent, Robert, I don't know what you're complaining about. Building the monkey-love-loft and the monkey bond-trading floor was probably a bit much, though.
Jul '10
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May be the cocaine addled monkeys can help with the 712K stimulus funded study at Northwestern to create "machine-generated humour."
Aug '10
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Bad news is that some of those monkeys have graduated to crack. These guys are malevolent and highly skittish. You can tell when they start talking "global economies" , "World Court" , and the ever reliable, ""UN Peacekeeping Forces".
Very delusional stuff, very scary. These monkeys will steal from their allies, and the "commercial sex workers" are usually working for them .
Redefining the street lingo: ;pimp = playa = czar. Proof ? No congress has ever authorized a pimp ! OR those fancy cars they drive. So no accountability = perfection in a pimp's eyes.
Ok, I apologize for the cynicism.
$275,000 for Blue Springs,Mo to "fight Goth culture ".
But I'm not telling what year. It could have been 250 AD.
(love lofts and bond traders- where do monkeys get Dom ?)
Edited on Oct 24, 2010 at 8:15amJun '10
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Clearly, the stimulas package has too many balls in the air.
Jul '10
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There's a significant part of the Democrat base that would have happily paid to teach African males....um....you know.
Jun '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
That was well-spent, Robert, I don't know what you're complaining about. Building the monkey-love-loft and the monkey bond-trading floor was probably a bit much, though. · Oct 24 at 7:04am
This was actually the cleverest bit of grant-writing I've ever seen. Like the monkeys got the cocaine...
Edited on Oct 24, 2010 at 12:11pm