Republican Fiscal Responsibility At Work
April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Congress is spending a record $29 billion this year on thousands of lawmakers’ special projects, including a teapot museum in North Carolina and a boxing club in Nevada, according to a report on wasteful government spending.
Lawmakers increased spending by more than 6 percent from last year to pay for almost 10,000 special projects for their home districts, according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington-based group that seeks to eliminate inefficiency in government.
The group cited $500,000 being spent on the teapot museum and $100,000 on the boxing club as being particularly egregious wastes of public money and deserving of derisive “oinker” awards. (source)
Damn. Teapots are expensive.
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But they're so cute and interesting. Of course, I'm not sure why they're putting a museum in NC. The prettiest come from England and Holland and those are the ones that were found most often in the US (or colonies). But that pricetag seems a bit much! Wow!