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Congress Uses Our Money To Fund A Depraved "Hamster Fight Club"

Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago to Government
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And other stupid programs like it? This kind of $chiff Adds Up!
You'd think a "Hamster Fight Club" is something me dino would dig up out of The Babylon Bee. This cruel and unusual research raks along with Dr. "I Am Science" Fauci funding Chinese scientists to torture dogs with sand fleas. To prove what? That pain hurts? What's next? Cock fights?
No wonder there's at least decent caring people out there who formed a nonprofit organization called White Coat Waste. White Coat Waste says the National Institute Of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) spent over $1.5 million of our tax dollars to watch aggressive genetically altered hamsters rip into docile ones.
To follow the science? What science? This is taxpayer-funded animal abuse plain and simple.
Can't you hear some mealy-mouthed Congress person now? "Whut? Just a measly $1.5 million bucks, ya say? Shucks! That's just a drop in the bucket! How could that really impact inflation?"
Ever put a pot under a leaky faucet dripping a slow steady flow of drops? Fills up surprisingly fast to overflowing, doesn't it?
If you start counting every one of those isolated programs often stuffed hidden away in bills for all the gimme gimmes out there that become laws, the total price tag and its inflationary impact adds up very quickly.

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  • Posted by $ blarman 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Amen. We have that in my State Legislature (the budget bills are a little more nuanced) and it's fantastic. I'd love to see it implemented at the Federal Level. There is no reason for these massive 10,000-page bills except to overwhelm people.
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  • Posted by term2 2 years, 10 months ago
    This country is just beyond saving, unfortunately.
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What is this QUARTER nonsense? I remember the day at school when my coke from the machine went from .05 to .06, and we were all scandalized!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Houses and lawns have replaced the woods I used to play in when I was a kid in Dothan, Alabama.
    My now deceased well-to-do father had a lake house an hour's drive away in the Florida Panhandle. A way bigger woods there looked like a jungle in a Tarzan movie. It's still there.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds like we had similar experiences in our youth. Did you play in the woods, swamps, and streams to catch snakes, frogs, and turtles? I can remember earlier times when an empty bottle would only bring 2 cents. Good days. You're right about parents would have a hard time today letting kids do what we did!
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 2 years, 10 months ago
    Put in the amendment the Confederacy added to the constitution. All bills must be on one and only one issue.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino forgot about that! Back then bicycles had baskets for school books and I'd pedal to school where bike racks were provided.
    You can't see bike racks at elementary schools anymore. Today parents would be arrested for what they let kids do back then.
    That bike basket came in handy when it came to collecting Coke bottles to make money to buy back then cheap comic books, candy bars and stuff.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes! I remember getting a bottle of soda from a machine for a quarter, too, and then getting a nickel back for the bottle. We used to look for bottles along the road to get the quarter, LOL. I also remember getting a bottle of orange Crush and pouring it on vanilla ice cream! If I can get my weight under 200 maybe I'll do that again!
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 2 years, 10 months ago
    One of my dentists got behind in his payments to the IRS and ended up owing $1500. I went with him to the meeting with the IRS agent. She said, "I've never known an employer to come with an employee to one of these meetings.' I said 'if he had the $1500 to pay you, I wouldn't be here. I'm writing the check. I'll take it out of his pay. ' She looked absolutely stunned at such a novel idea.' Stupid, stupid, and stupid.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That jogged a memory. Me an old dino recalls putting a quarter in a machine to buy a can of soda during the early Sixties where I grew up in Dothan, Alabama.
    During that same period, I remember feeling shocked when I had to pay fifty cents for the same thing during a family visit to Atlanta.
    I became glad I didn't live where I had to pay what I considered to be "big city prices."
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  • Posted by mccannon01 2 years, 10 months ago
    The scary thing would be hamsters today, humans tomorrow.

    I recall a to-do back in the late '60s (or early '70s) a university in NY was given a $250k grant to discover how little kids get hurt on tricycles. The outcome: 1) They fall off; 2) They bump into things. Any mom at the time already knew that and could have given those answers for free.

    Edit add: I looked this up just for the hekuvit... Adjusted for inflation, $250,000 in 1970 is equal to $1,848,820 in 2022.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Humans with power DO have a very long history of abusing humans with less or no power.
    Communism is slavery~~even in this country.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 10 months ago
    While I may be concerned about animal abuse, it pales in comparison to the feds abuse of humans.
    NIFOITOWTBS
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  • Posted by mhubb 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    suffering caused to ANY living thing for needless reasons is simply evil

    be it a child ripped about in an abortion or a hamster
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 2 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino cares most about is such government waste in pet projects paid by money Congress ain't even got altogether adding to inflation.
    Last time me dino was at the pump I topped off half a tank for just over $30. I used to be able to fill the whole tank for just under $20. Now I'm down to half a tank once again.
    I'll be slapping on another of my bought from Amazon stickers of Biden pointing at the price and saying "That's all me. I did that."
    Actually, that's the Puppet-In-Chief and all his handlers. But there's no stickers for that.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 2 years, 10 months ago
    I don't give a damn about hamsters. My most recent gas fill up was $60 and the tank wasn't empty to begin with. This takes your breath away.I drive a 2014 Explorer and I am a low mileage driver only 48,000 miles in 8 years. But $60 to fill up the tank gets my attention.
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