{"id":390681,"date":"2018-12-27T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/summing-up-annual-shaming-report-on-egregious-us-govt-waste-video-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T09:55:38","slug":"summing-up-annual-shaming-report-on-egregious-us-govt-waste-video-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/summing-up-annual-shaming-report-on-egregious-us-govt-waste-video-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Summing up annual shaming report on egregious US govt waste (VIDEO) \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.12\/thumbnail\/5c248892fc7e93972c8b466c.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 27 Dec, 2018 08:17 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 27 Dec, 2018 09:38 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        A $2.4 million daydreaming study and a very scientific examination of the sex habits of coked-up quails topped Senator Rand Paul\u2019s annual list of maddening government waste, which this year clocked in at $114 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Last week, the Kentucky lawmaker issued his fourth installment of the annual \u2018Festivus Waste Report,\u2019 which names and shames some of the US government\u2019s most egregious spending choices.<\/p>\n<p>The waste is humorously documented in this year\u2019s report. Some of the examples include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spending $2.4 million to study daydreaming, and another NIH study, costing $874,000, which researched the sexual habits of quails that were high on cocaine.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/371554-rand-paul-festivus-twitter-rant\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">&#8216;I got a lot of problems with you&#8217;: Rand Paul flames Trump, media, waste in Festivus celebration<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__cover\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2016.12\/thumbnail\/585de808c46188874e8b4631.jpg')\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul.senate.gov\/news\/dr-rand-paul-releases-2018-%E2%80%98festivus%E2%80%99-edition-%E2%80%98-waste-report%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted<\/a>, these generously funded projects underline how wasteful spending and misplaced priorities have <em>\u201chelped the federal government place taxpayers on the hook for a debt that is rapidly closing in on $22 trillion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a closer look at some of the financial \u2018gifts\u2019 from Washington\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"media__youtube-frame\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WlILUmqiSeY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/447488-waste-report-rand-paul-festivus\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 27 Dec, 2018 08:17 Edited time: 27 Dec, 2018 09:38 A $2.4 million daydreaming study and a very scientific examination of the sex habits of coked-up quails topped Senator Rand Paul\u2019s annual list of maddening government waste, which this year clocked in at $114 million. Last week, the Kentucky lawmaker issued his fourth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}