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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul took to the floor of the Senate Friday morning to rail against irresponsible government spending, using a series of posters during a 32-minute presentation highlighting waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer money.
The Kentucky Republican’s speech was aimed at pushing back against a bipartisan bill, the Endless Frontier Act, which supposedly expands research into science and emerging technologies in order for the United States to stay ahead of a rising China. A fiscal conservative, Paul noted that with more than $28 trillion in debt, Congress and the administration ought to be concerned about curbing excessive spending rather than borrowing more money — from Beijing — in order to fund new legislation.
“I don’t think this bill makes us stronger. In fact, I think the Chinese sit back … and laugh at America thinking we’re going to be stronger by borrowing more money from China,” Paul told the chamber. “So I just don’t think it makes us any stronger at all. I think it makes us weaker. It would be one thing if it weren’t being so horribly wasted.” At that, Paul launched into his poster board presentation, focusing on several research initiatives he said many taxpayers would be shocked and angry about if they knew they were being funded. Among them, he said, is a $357,000 study involving “Cocaine and Risky Sex Habits of Quail,” as well as $1.6 million to study “Lizards on a Treadmill.”
Another poster showed award-winning singer and actress Dolly Parton to showcase a $250,000 program that sends “kids in Pakistan to Space Camp and Dollywood,” the latter a Tennessee-based amusement park Parton co-owns with Herschend Family Entertainment which is the most popular tourist attraction in the state.
In addition, Paul highlighted a project involving $700,000 taken by National Science Foundation from an autism research grant to find out whether famed astronaut Neil Armstrong used “a” during his famous declaration during his 1969 moon landing, “one giant leap for mankind.” He noted on Twitter that despite the expenditure and study, “we just don’t know.”
He also drew attention to a $450,000 program to create a “climate […]
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