Ted Poe: “We keep hearing about how great the trillion-dollar stimulus bill was and how well it has worked. It has been 1 year or…”

“We keep hearing about how great the trillion-dollar stimulus bill was and how well it has worked. It has been 1 year or so, so lest we forget, let's see where some of that stimulus money got spent. In Buffalo, New York, the State university got about $400,000 to study the effects of drinking malt liquor while smoking pot. For 3 weeks, 100 people are paid $45 a day of taxpayer money to drink malt liquor and smoke a little marijuana--this party stupor paid for by Americans throughout the country. Taxpayers are footing the bill for other parties, like the one in Boca Raton, Florida. But this one is not for people, this one is for lab mice. That is right, Atlantic University is getting about $15,000 for two summer researchers to measure how alcohol affects a mouse's motor functions. I wonder where the PETA people are on this one. Now, do these drunk lab mice count as jobs saved or jobs created? We don't know. We are not through. In Nebraska, we are funding another wasteful bridge project. First we had the Cornhusker Kickback, and now Americans are sending $7 million to Thelford, Nebraska, to build a bridge. That doesn't sound so bad, but this $7 million bridge is so 168 people don't have to wait so long to cross a railroad track. Sounds like we are wasting money. By the way, that is $43,000 per person waiting for that train. And the U.S. Forest Service is getting $2.8 million in stimulus money to spend on wildfire management in Washington, D.C.…”