15 Dumb Ventures The Government Wasted Your Money On

You don't shuffle over a trillion dollars around without flushing some of it away on absolute garbage.
15 Dumb Ventures The Government Wasted Your Money On

Does the government spend money on anything worthwhile? Maybe. Sometimes. Occasionally. But you don't shuffle over a trillion dollars around without flushing some of it away on absolute garbage. So here are a handful the dumb things our money goes to, in what could easily be the first installment of a daily feature. 

KB46 Ch Lonk sa FUNNY VIDEOS E CRAGKEDCOM In 2010, the IRS commissioned videos parodying Star Trek and Gilligan's Island to air at a training contest. The Trek one, at least, offered zero training information, So the IRS's initial defense of it failed, and they apologized.

Source: AP

A SUPER KB46^ BOWL AD KB46279860 I B2 The Census Bureau spent $2.5 million in 2010 on a Super Bowl ad with B-list celebs. The government kind of has better ways of reaching people. This ad, say experts, targeted those who'd likely have answered the census anyway.

Source: NPR

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