Tuesday, Oklahoma GOP Senator Tom Coburn released his “Wastebook 2011”, an annual round-up of the years’s most egregious wastes of taxpayers money. This year’s “pork” totalled $6.5 Billion. Some of the “lowlights” include: $550,000 for a documentary on how rock music helped collapse the Soviet Union and $113,227 for a center to preserve old video games.
- The video game center got two big “thumbs up” from Congressional gamers.
- The idea for the video game center was actually suggested by two brothers from Italy: Mario and Luigi.
But there were some even bigger chunks of pork, including $15.3 million for the infamous “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska that was never actually built, including over a million dollars for staffers to promote it, and $10 million to remake “Sesame Street” for Pakistan.
- The first episode was brought to you by the letters “T…N…T”!
- You haven’t lived ‘til you’ve seen Miss Piggy in a Burka.
- Bert & Ernie aren’t on the Pakistani edition. They were killed under suspicion of being gay.