Here are some things that your tax dollars have been paying for:
1. National Squirrel Census $2.3M
2. Federal Committee on Sandwich Standards $5M
3. Bureau of Uneven Sidewalk Awareness $1.8M
4. National Soap Carving Championship Grant $700K
5. Bureau of Left Handed Scissors $250K
6. National Moth Appreciation Day Initiative $250K
7. The Federal Cheese Wheel Roll Off $1.2M
8. The Office of Inflatable Pool Regulations $500K
9. Duck Quack Research Fund $4M
10. National Database of Presidential Hairstyles $800K
11. National Pillow Fluffing Initiative $1.5M
12. Bureau of Elevator Music Standards $2.1M
13. Federal Bureau of Traffic Cone Counting $1.3M
14. Office of Seasonal Pumpkin Oversight $800K
15. National Chair Spinning Safety Council $400K
16. Federal Kazoo Orchestra Grant $2M
17.American Cloud Watching Fund $1.1M
18. The Department of Leftover Labeling $600K
19. The Bureau of Ice Cube Uniformity $2.5M
20. The National Velcro Noise Study $1.7M
21. The National Bubble Wrap Stress Relief Study $1.4M
22. Bureau of Mailbox Feng Shui $900K
23. Federal Balloon Animal Training Academy $2.3M
24. National Pretzel Untwisting Initiative $600K
25. Department of Sock Pairing $1.8M
26. Federal High Five Coordination Bureau $1.2M
27. National Ice Cream Cone constructural  Integrity Lab $700K
28. Office of Puddle Depth Measurement $3M
29. Bureau of Alarm Clock Testing $1.5M
30. Federal Litter Clean Up Task Force $2M
Of course, this isn’t REALLY where the money goes. This is a grift, so that people can steal money from the treasury.
18 Comments
SoCoRuss · February 5, 2025 at 1:46 pm
DAM, so glad nobody has taken the name for my application for fed money yet.
Bureau for Stripper Inspections and Standards.
But what I never got if why we don’t get a culture day/week or month?
I think National Whitey Week would be great, its so uplifting.
ToolsforLiberty · February 5, 2025 at 6:18 pm
Your proposed Bureau for Stripper Inspection Standards is already in place under a different name. FBI – Female Body Inspector.
As for “National Whitey Week”. I’m not so sure about that idea. Where I grew up, my fellow Americans whom happen to be black did have a day for such reverence, but called it “Cracker Day”. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be…., just sayin’!
SoCoRuss · February 5, 2025 at 3:17 pm
You missed 2 recipients that say it all about our political system:
International Republican Institute: $92,070,021.00
National Democratic Institute:$98,080,460.00
Notice how they basically divide it up, but the masters get just a little more.
Its a BIG Club and we aint in it.
lynn · February 5, 2025 at 3:20 pm
Is this a true list or just a list of crazy items that somebody threw together ?
Divemedic · February 5, 2025 at 4:21 pm
I spot checked some of them. They checked out.
Phil B · February 5, 2025 at 5:25 pm
Yep – Poe’s Law is kicking in hard. That is, when something cannot be distinguished from satire.
wojtek · February 5, 2025 at 11:30 pm
I really was waiting for this type of post 🙂
lynn · February 5, 2025 at 3:36 pm
“Are Taxpayers Keeping POLITICO Afloat to the Tune of MILLIONS? Sure.”
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/02/05/politico-funded-by-usaid-n2407881
Bob · February 5, 2025 at 5:45 pm
I spot checked 3 or 4 and kept coming up with a facebook post which you copied directly. Which ones did you “spot check?”
Divemedic · February 5, 2025 at 6:11 pm
I originally saw a video of a guy talking about some of these. I then started googling them, and came upon a thread on X (twitter) about it that was actually started by Musk himself. One of the posts had that list. That was the one I copied and pasted. I spot checked several, and this is what I found:
– The one for soap carving led me to a page on the National Endowment for the Arts website. The page on that site where I found that grant is now nonexistent.
I searched for several others, but it now appears as though I was taken in by a satire skit that someone removed the satire label from. I guess that is the mark of good satire- it is indistinguishable from actual events. The video that spawned this post can be found here.
Bravo to the makers of the video.
Michael · February 5, 2025 at 8:36 pm
Respect for researching after posters questioned it.
MORE Respect that your honorable enough to actually say you were “taken by a satire skit”.
Some folks would defend or delete as not to admit they were “taken”.
Divemedic · February 5, 2025 at 10:00 pm
It is a mark of the times that no claim about our current state of affairs is too preposterous to be believed.
wojtek · February 5, 2025 at 11:40 pm
Just to give credit where it is really due, these items actually come from a different video that is a week older and is presented by a middle aged white guy, not a teenage Asian kid. I’m assuming the tiktoker decided to take advantage of someone else’s ingenuity without a proper acknowledgment.
TCK · February 5, 2025 at 6:23 pm
If we don’t already have a National Squirrel Census then someone needs to start one.
Squirrels are the most damaging domestic terrorists in America (that’s only partially a joke btw).
KurtP · February 5, 2025 at 8:58 pm
75% of those entries could have been a Monty Python skit.
wojtek · February 5, 2025 at 11:31 pm
You forgot to list the ministry of silly walks 🙂
SoCoRuss · February 6, 2025 at 12:14 pm
Don’t get drawn into the weeds. The main issue is USAID is ONE of a giant money laundering system for politicians and .gov agencies.
The NGOs managing the invasion are getting paid by us to destroy us, concentrate on that. It not a left or right thing.
When the financial markets collapse and they will, no one will know how it happened, shit like this this is part of how. Wait until they take your bank accts to reimburse the fuckers that did this and you never paid any attention that you became a investor in your bank after 2008 not a customer.
SoCoRuss · February 6, 2025 at 10:13 pm
Did anyone see the release from DOGE on USAID, it was on X, that showed Jeffery Epstein getting money in 2023? From the Kaiser Foundation as a director?
Think about that date VERY VERY Hard…………… He suicided in 2019.