Sunday, August 21, 2011

WASTE UPON WASTE UPON WASTE


Worst of the Waste: The 100 Outrageous Government Spending Projects of 2010
By Tina Korbe
The Foundry/Heritage.org
The Grateful Dead have been named among the top "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" by Rolling Stone magazine. Now, they rank among the 100 worst examples of wasteful government spending in 2010.

A report prepared by Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-OK) office reveals taxpayers shelled out $615,000 so the University of California at Santa Cruz could digitize Grateful Dead photographs, tickets, backstage passes, fliers, shirts and other memorabilia.

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