Over at Reason’s Rough Cut group blog, there’s a posted video entitled, “Which Government Projects are Real and Which are Fake?”
“Joke-telling robots, expensive walking tunnels, BlackBerries for smokers, and training American prostitutes to drink responsibly. What do these things have in common? They’re all questionable government spending projects in a time when our economy is struggling and people can’t get jobs….or, maybe we just made them up.
Put yourself to the test. See if you can outwit the Rebel Economist before she stumps you. So what is it: REAL or FAKE?”
Here’s the video:
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gp0JuBp8xA.
The gentlemen who concocted these spending programs have lost all sense of what’s legitimate. Ideas like these would only make sense to someone without any sense of how ordinary people live.