Summertime Blues for the Taxpayer

Brian Darling / August 06, 2010

Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) have put out an excellent report on the 100 most wasteful projects funded in President Obama’s $862 billion Stimulus plan.  The report, Summertime Blues, is important for conservatives to read from cover to cover.  This report contains some of the most egregious and wasteful programs ever recorded.

One project that has been the subject of much discussion is a Wake Forest University Study on how Monkeys react under the influence of cocaine.  This project received $144,541 in Stimulus funds and produced only a fraction on a job created (0.43 according to Recovery.gov).  The Coburn-McCain Report stated the following about this project (Coburn-McCain Report project 28): (more…)