You're in the sand business. You probably didn't know that. Out of the goodness of your heart and the useless battle against the tide, you are spending $2.3 million on replenishing beaches in Delaware.
Not that that is anything new. Heck, you spent $24.7 million on one single beach in Cape May, New Jersey, to replenish it ten times. You're quite tenacious about battling nature, aren't you?
One Delaware resident sums it up.
"In my opinion, beach replenishment is a tragic waste of tax money," said Lewes resident Rich Anthony. "You're trying to overcome God. You can't do it. And you have taxpayers in Utah who will never see the ocean in their lives paying for some ... businessman who wants to risk his fortune or business and home to have an ocean view."You may not have ocean front property, but you're paying for it.
And in other porky news:
-$300 million stimulus program to promote energy efficiency may not be energy efficient after all, audit finds
-Quid Pro Pork: Department of Justice investigates link between the exchange of congressional earmarks and campaign donations
-Washington, DC, city government steered $4.5 million in federal funds to an AIDS housing group that never filed federal tax returns and has been plagued with service and cost complaints
-DC mayor launches investigation of groups that misspent more than $25 million of public AIDS assistance
-Political scientists debate the relevancy of the research they conduct with federal funds; “We’re kidding ourselves if we think this research typically has the obvious public benefit we claim for it.”
-National Science Foundation funds political science study of online town hall meetings held by Members of Congress
-UC Davis grossly inflated the number of campus-related sexual assaults to reap more than $1 million in grants for violence prevention
-Feds investigating the possible misuse of crime prevention funds by Oklahoma City
(Oklahoma. I'm so disappointed.)
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