This is why people think government grants are wasted . . .

[as seen on tv]

http://qz.com/404056/a-team-of-scientists-have-engineered-a-chicken-with-a-dinosaurs-face-to-study-evolution/

“Scientists” at Harvard and Yale are putting our tax dollars to good use. They are trying to turn back the clock, and engineer a chicken that looks like Tyrannosaurus Rex. Really – this is actually true. Read the link above.

I’m sure this is fascinating to them, and will amuse the kids at the McDonalds’ drive through who want to order “Dino Nuggets”. But given the fact that every family in America (there are 100 million of us) already owes $180,000 as part of the $18 TRILLION national debt . . . are tyrannosaurus like rhode island reds a good use of our money? Maybe someone has a plan to earn it back, in cockfights?

I’m sure elsewhere in academia some Professor Frink is spell checking his federal grant application to train sea monkeys in synchronous swimming. What’s that you say? It’s already happening? Damn! http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/curtis-kalin/top-20-worst-ways-government-wasted-your-tax-dollars.

How do these things happen?

It’s not as if we don’t have enough REAL problems to work on. Getting all our kids to graduate from high school. Battery cars that don’t cost $100 grand. Building a loyal robot army to defend us from the rogue robots that will inevitabley rise up to try and conquer us.

Don’t get me wrong. I would DEFINITELY enjoy seeing a chicken/dinosaur hybrid take on Manny Pacquiao in cockfight. But shouldn’t cable tv pay per view fees support this sort of research?

This isn’t a partisan issue. Republicans are no better than Democrats when resisting the earmark blandishments of college professors, windmill moguls, and Esperanto scholars. In fact, a lot of these grants probably never even reach congress. Our vast federal bureaucracy green lights this from their own annual/unaudited department budgets.

What’s the solution to this? Simply voting against all incumbents won’t do the trick. We have a permanent class of administrative mandarins who are clearly immune to common sense, and no idea what’s worthwhile and what isn’t.

At some point this is all going to come crashing down. Our government will find it impossible to float new federal debt, or even “roll over” the existing debt. Treasury Bill buyers will be broke, or just say no. Hyper inflation will then occur, as government printing presses work overtime to spit out dollars to pay the nations bills. Then, when it reaches the stage where you rush to the grocery store at 7am because things will cost twice as much by 5pm, the entire system will collapse.

There will be no more synchronized swimming sea monkeys, all the dinosaur headed chickens will have gone home roost, subsidies to ethanol farmers will be over . . .

America will look like the 19th century again. Maybe that would be a good thing, though?

 

[Fast Eddy]

Changing government is so much more than changing elected officials. I had a friend who's some joined the state department as a life time position. I asked him once while visiting if it was hard dealing with changes when New Presidents came in, he just laughed and said we don't change, we have an agenda that we run, if a president changes what we are doing we just bury it in the bureaucracy and use it as an excuse for not getting things done and of coarse we drag our feet and lie. I felt like decking him!

 

[trapdoor]

It is this sort of backward-looking Luddite screed that gives real conservatives a bad name.