Money to spend on very strange things.
United States of America as a whole are the richest country in the world, and the rich, as you know, their quirks. To your attention the most stupid projects that Finance the U.S. government.
Viagra for employees of the Pentagon (505 thousand dollars)
Analysis of state contracts in the United States shows that in 2014 the Ministry of defence spent more than $ 0.5 million on purchases of tablets to increase potency Viagra.
In total the Pentagon has concluded 62 contracts worth 504 816 dollars for the supply of this drug. Supplier has performed pharmaceutical distribution company Cardinal Health Inc.”, based in Dublin, Ohio.
It is known that the Ministry of defence for the first time beginning to offer employees “Viagra” as a medical stimulator in 1998. Then cost of one pill of this medicine was $ 10. By 2015 the price of Viagra has risen by 2.5 times. In one month the employee of the Pentagon allocate 6 tablets. Moreover, based on statements by the military leadership of the United States, lost or stolen drugs do not kompensiruet.
The defense Ministry also ordered the pharmaceutical companies and some in other popular erectile dysfunction pills, for example, “Levitra” (only 3 $ 505) and “Cialis” (14 $ 540). Contracts for the supply of their designed Service of military support.
Cheat of likes in Facebook ($630 thousand)
In 2013, officials of the us state Department has spent 630 thousand dollars only to receive more “likes” on popular social network Facebook. In the end, on the English pages there were in total left 2 million likes (in 2012 there were only 100 thousand), and foreign language – 450 thousand.
Despite such a surge, the efforts of the leadership has not reached a target audience that is much older than people, puts the huskies, and is many times more influential. Moreover, social research shows that only 2% of users of social networks regularly like other people’s entries or leave comments.
It is worth noting that after 2012, Facebook changed the approach to news feeds of users, the value of “fans” have considerably decreased. Now everything is quite simple: if you want to increase the number of hits, and accordingly, the comments left on the official page, you will have to pay. Then she will be more likely to appear in the news feed. In this case the State Department in this respect is no different from the average user, host fan page. Officials have to constantly pay people, commenting on their records, to support his official page in a high position. The number of subscribers does not matter.
The inspector General of the Department of State stated that the employees of the organization have criticized the practice of “buying fans” – people who put the huskies to the records, but has no real interest in a particular topic.
First sexual experience young gays (410 thousand dollars)
Would tell you about your first sexual experience researchers? The United States government wants to know everything about it, especially if you are African-American young man with different sexual orientation.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent by the National institutes of Health to study the level of satisfaction of young gay his first sexual experience.
A study conducted by a renowned specialist with Johns Hopkins, studies the characteristics of thousands of the first “penetrative homosexual contacts”.
The goal of this unusual project is to identify the significance and psychological function of the first same-sex sexual experience. Scientists also tend to learn to reliably evaluate the possibility of its impact on subsequent contacts, intimate preferences and overall sexual health adult boys. The grant for the project, which started in 2012, allocated state.
Every year on the financing of the project was spent nearly 140 thousand dollars. How much money the government allocates to him in 2016 is still unknown. If a significant change will not happen by the end of the study it will spend about 680 thousand dollars. You know American taxpayers about which programs are funded at their expense?
A video game where the hero runs from the city of fat people (10 million dollars)
The leadership of the National institutes of Health has invested more than $ 10 million in the development and promotion of video games. Its main character is a teenager named DJ. He needs to escape from the city in which they live are very thick people. According to experts, this game is like a psychological method of dealing with obesity.
Playing “Escape from Diab” a man gets into a terrible fictional city where people are allowed to consume only junk food. “The story revolves around five children who need to earn enough HP in order to defeat the ferocious King of Etesa,” shares information “ArchiMage, Inc.”, the company that developed the computer game. Note that king Etes – very fat ruler, forcing his subjects to eat food from the machines.
The main character DJ need to teach their friends suffering from obesity, the rules of healthy eating and exercise. After that they can flee the city, full of tall towers, which are distributed for free products such as cakes, fat chips, burgers and bread with butter.
This is interesting: the Game was tested on hundreds of children, whose age ranged from 10 to 12 years. Experts have found that they have started to consume more fresh fruits and vegetables and absorb 30% less food at a time. While physical activity of children has decreased. Apparently, the researchers have simply forgotten that players spend hours every day sitting at a screen, and that all the benefits of a healthy diet leveled. Great job worth 10 million dollars, guys!
The website “Popular romance project” (914 thousands of dollars)
In the message, published in a 2013 edition of the “Wastebook” is an annual collection of silly and ridiculous Federal government projects in the United States, contained information that the National humanitarian Fund for the last 3 years was financed by the “Popular romance project”. The total value of the investment exceeded 900 thousand dollars. “Popular romance project” – a web site whose purpose is to educate Americans in the romantic sphere.
Study of the sexual life full of girls (467 thousand dollars)
In 2014, the Federal government, States were allocated hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on researching the sex lives of girls who are overweight.
Then the researchers compared the intimate life of women with normal and overweight. Finally, they figured out the peculiarities of the sexual life of women of different races and nationalities.
In a similar study in 2013 spent more than 170 thousand dollars. Then the scientists studied the effect of sexual orientation of people on their health and weight.
Pumpkin donuts (45 thousand dollars)
Americans just love donuts! So the American government in 2014 spent 45 thousand dollars to the study of market prospects for “healthy” donuts from the pumpkin.
In March 2015, Senator Dan Coates to a meeting with voters said that the government over the past 10 years has spent nearly 300 million of taxpayer dollars on creating business plans for growing and marketing agricultural products. According to Coates, one of the most egregious cases was the allocation of funds to conduct comprehensive studies of pumpkin donuts – healthy local product.
Other grants are allocated to not less quaint of study – for example, a study of methods of processing olives, the characteristics of the marketing of alcoholic drinks, chicken wings and cheese.
Piercing couples voodoo dolls (331 thousand dollars)
In 2014, Senator of Oklahoma Tom Coburn announced that the government funded pointless research by the National science Foundation, among which was the study of the family life of the spouses, piercing needles voodoo dolls.
Small puppets of the scientists called “Hangry” — a combination of the words “hungry” (hungry) and “angry” (angry). Why is it so? It is no secret that when we are hungry, we have increased irritable, we get angry or nasty. This observation and tried to prove by scientific researchers.
Twenty-one nights in a row of 107 married couples were supposed to stick from 1 to 51 needles in a voodoo doll, symbolizing their partner. And the husband and wife pierced dolls separately, not seeing each other. Scientists have estimated and recorded the amount of damage to the mannequins injections and compared them with other data. In the end, the researchers concluded, which is obvious to most couples: people with a low concentration of sugar in blood were more evil and stuck in the doll “Hangry” more needles.
Monkey-alcoholics (3.2 million dollars)
In 2014 the us government has allocated $ 3.2 million from the budget for the study of monkeys, large quantities of consuming alcohol.The researchers sought to find out how this habit affects the body’s tissues in the long term.
The study was conducted by University of Science and Health of the state of Oregon. Experts say that it should fill the “gap” between the laboratory observations, the object of which were rodents and humans. They also believe that this work will help to “explore the community of drinkers and to better understand the peculiarities of the diseases caused by alcoholism.”
This is interesting: conservationists were shocked to learn that in the ongoing study, the researchers had forced the monkeys every day to drink a lot of alcohol and then examined their tissues for the presence of damage.
Shrimp on a treadmill (from 500 thousand to 3 million dollars)
According to various sources, the financing of national scientific research experiments with shrimp was isolated from 500 thousand to 3 million dollars. Conducting such experiments scientists still can not clearly explain what they mean.
David Solnick, holding the position of Professor of marine biology and Pacific University of Oregon is one of the most ardent defenders of this study. He scolds all the critics and argues that the assembled treadmill for shrimp on their money from spare parts. It allegedly cost him just $ 47. According to another expert, money, Federal research center were spent on dozens of different experiments, and a treadmill for shrimp was just one of them.
The scientist said that the unusual experiment was carried out in order to see how well the shrimp body to tolerate stressful condition of the body and how water quality affects their health. According to him, every teaspoon of seawater can contain millions of bacteria. And health of marine life, as it is known, directly affects the safety of human consumption of seafood.
Solnik categorically denies the statements of his opponents, claiming that the creation of the treadmill was spent one-third of the funds allocated by the state 3 million. We do not know, how all was actually, but would be an unfortunate omission not to mention that video with a running shrimp, posted on Youtube, thousands of views and hundreds of likes.
