Like talking to a railroad tie ain`t it 3020? 
When we say "do away with farm subsidies and gov crop insurance, then hobby says "You greedy farmers just don`t want the fringe areas planted so you`ll make more money!!!" then we say okay keep `em. Then hobby says "You greedy farmers want the taxpayers to protect your income!".
Last night I was chasing the little Chihuahua around the kitchen table and the Wife says how long would he keep that up, I said I think he`ll keep it up one lap longer than I can 🙂
@BA Deere wrote:
Like talking to a railroad tie ain`t it 3020?
Last night I was chasing the little Chihuahua around the kitchen table and the Wife says how long would he keep that up, I said I think he`ll keep it up one lap longer than I can 🙂
I could take hobbey a little more seriuosly if he would also complain about spending such as this. He doesn't seem as concerned with spending as he does about bashing conservatives.
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Right now the National Institutes of Health is spending $3.2 million to get monkeys to drink alcohol excessively to determine what effect it has long term on their body tissue.
NIH also has handed out $69,459 to the University of Missouri to study whether text messaging college students before they attend pre-football game tailgates will encourage them to drink less and “reduce harmful effects related to alcohol consumption.”
And the government’s premier research arm has doled out money in recent years for research on binge-drinking mice, inebriated gamblers and pilots seeking the sensation of flying drunk — on a simulator of course.
NIH defends such expenditures on the grounds that these research projects help those they fund improve their “potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist.”
In an email to The Washington Times, the NIH pointed out that the goal of the Missouri text message project wasn’t just to save the lives of coeds but also to empower “promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from outstanding faculty sponsors while conducting dissertation research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.”
In other words, it’s the sort of stuff that gets scientists excited.
But with 50,000 grants totaling $24 billion each year at taxpayer expense, NIH has some spending watchdogs and lawmakers in Congress wondering whether it has become a drunken spender that has wandered too far astray from its core mission.
