this is still from william proxmire. millions of dollars were spent to find out if drunk fish were more aggressive than sober fish. i will let you ponder that one. this is your government. this surmoney. is this the debt you're handing on to your kids and grandkids. this is 50 years ago. we'll get to some of the things we've been doing more recently. we do a waste report where we point some of these things out and every week we have a new one. if you want to look at our waste report, we have it on facebook and the website. you remember when neil armstrong landed on the moon? he said one small step for man -- some said one small step for a man. there has been heated discussion. was it one step for man or a man. the prep sition a, did he or did he not use the prep sition a? so their government took $700,000 which was supposed to go to autism research, and they decided to study neil armstrong's statement. somebody at some university decided to play the tape over and over. $700,000 later, they couldn't decide. we still don't

so this is the same kind of stuff you were seeing with william proxmire 50 years ago but this is last year. i think it's the same group, national science foundation. i think i'm probably going to get some hate mail from them. so this is $850,000. and we call this one the game of waste. this was spent -- you think when we're spending money in afghanistan well, surely it's to kill the enemy. sometimes it's building bridges, sometimes it's building roads. stuff we don't do in our country anymore. but this one was $850,000 for the development of a televised cricket league. you see, self-esteem is important and we want the afghanis to feel good about themselves. we want them to be able to watch the national sport on tv. so we spent $850,000 to get it televised. the only thing we didn't reckon was it was kind of like the natural gas cars, they didn't have tvs. so i don't know if we're in the process now of buying them tvs, but we did spend $850,000 of your money to get 'televised cricket league for those people in afghanistan. want to do the next one? this is a good one. everybody likes to

i showed you some of the william proxmire golden fleece awards from 1968. the same agency that went through that money is still here. their budget is probably tenfold bigger than it was in 1968 and we're still doing the c.i.a. -- still doing the crazy stuff. here's a good one from the same group of people that brought you neil armstrong and $#00,000 -- $700,000 to study what did he say, one small step for man, one large step for mankind. these people wanted to know are japanese quail more promiscuous than cocaine. i wish there was a button and we could ask people to dial in and push a button, do you think japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine. we spent $350,000 it studying this. why do we do this every year? why doesn't it get any better? we don't look at it. if you have a 700-page bill and nobody looks at it, how are you ever going to find this? even in an appropriations bill, if we did an appropriations bill that included this it would still be 500 pages long and you'd have to hunt long and hard to find this. why do we have conditions on

william prostate proxmire was ft pointing out this waste in 1968. one of the examples he pointed to was that money was being spent studying why men fall in love with women. you may be curious as to that, and if you are, ask your friends to get a crowdsourcing, and you can go study why men fall in love with women, but that's not a function of government. but that waste goes on decade after decade after decade, and nothing is ever fixed. so what we have is a 700-page bill that will not have been read by anything. i was just reading some of the things that are stuck in there that nobody has any idea how they got in there. 700 pages. all of the spending glommed together in one bill with no oversight. this is a terrible, rotten, no-good way to run your government, and it's been going on decade after decade, and everyone admits it's a terrible, rotten, no-good way to run your government, yet nobody stands up and says enough's enough. they say it's a binary choice, young man, take it or leave it. well, i'll leave it. i don't want to shut down government, b

william prostate proxmire was ft pointing out this waste in 1968. one of the examples he pointed to was that money was being spent studying why men fall in love with women. you may be curious as to that, and if you are, ask your friends to get a crowdsourcing, and you can go study why men fall in love with women, but that's not a function of government. but that waste goes on decade after decade after decade, and nothing is ever fixed. so what we have is a 700-page bill that will not have been read by anything. i was just reading some of the things that are stuck in there that nobody has any idea how they got in there. 700 pages. all of the spending glommed together in one bill with no oversight. this is a terrible, rotten, no-good way to run your government, and it's been going on decade after decade, and everyone admits it's a terrible, rotten, no-good way to run your government, yet nobody stands up and says enough's enough. they say it's a binary choice, young man, take it or leave it. well, i'll leave it. i don't want to shut down government, b

i showed you some of the william proxmire golden fleece awards from 1968. the same agency that went through that money is still here. their budget is probably tenfold bigger than it was in 1968 and we're still doing the c.i.a. -- still doing the crazy stuff. here's a good one from the same group of people that brought you neil armstrong and $#00,000 -- $700,000 to study what did he say, one small step for man, one large step for mankind. these people wanted to know are japanese quail more promiscuous than cocaine. i wish there was a button and we could ask people to dial in and push a button, do you think japanese quail are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine. we spent $350,000 it studying this. why do we do this every year? why doesn't it get any better? we don't look at it. if you have a 700-page bill and nobody looks at it, how are you ever going to find this? even in an appropriations bill, if we did an appropriations bill that included this it would still be 500 pages long and you'd have to hunt long and hard to find this. why do we have conditions on

this is still from william proxmire. millions of dollars were spent to find out if drunk fish were more aggressive than sober fish. i will let you ponder that one. this is your government. this surmoney. is this the debt you're handing on to your kids and grandkids. this is 50 years ago. we'll get to some of the things we've been doing more recently. we do a waste report where we point some of these things out and every week we have a new one. if you want to look at our waste report, we have it on facebook and the website. you remember when neil armstrong landed on the moon? he said one small step for man -- some said one small step for a man. there has been heated discussion. was it one step for man or a man. the prep sition a, did he or did he not use the prep sition a? so their government took $700,000 which was supposed to go to autism research, and they decided to study neil armstrong's statement. somebody at some university decided to play the tape over and over. $700,000 later, they couldn't decide. we still don't

many of them are very similar to wasteful projects that william proxmire had started noticing in the late 1960's and early 1970's, and yet we still have many of that same waste goes on and on and on. only four times in the last 42 years has congress actually passed all the appropriations bills. but it's not impossible, even in our modern era. the house this year actually passed all 12 appropriations bill. and yet, we didn't have time somehow to take up any of that or do any of our work on our side. but there is real consequences to what happens. and one of the consequences here is that we are accumulating new debt at about $1 million a minute. we have for some time. the new estimates actually are closer to $2 million a minute. it's going to be about $1 trillion a year. when you look at the debt that was accumulated for the last 17 years or so, george w. bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. president obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. and now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so. so there really are signs that t