Government Grants

Despite a nearly $17 trillion federal deficit, our government continues to spend taxpayer dollars in ways that defy common sense. Consider the following grants that were recently posted on the government website www.grants.gov:

• Project to Ensure Formal Workers Benefits in El Salvador ($300,000)
• Programs Benefiting Tibetan Refugees in South Asia ($2,500,000)  
• Cooperative Agreement with the Egypt Ministry of Health and Population for Global Disease Detection Activities ($4,000,000)

I would like to think that at some point our elected officials and bureaucrats will come to their senses and stop this madness but more and more I am coming to the conclusion that is best expressed by the comedian Ron White when he said: "You can't fix stupid".