My 2 Cents: Lankford Exposes Wasteful Spending

U.S. Sen. James Lankford has picked up where his predecessor Tom Coburn left off, exposing wasteful spending by the federal government.

Today, he released his second annual "Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the Federal Government dropped the Ball."

Some of the low lights, and remember all of this spending comes with our country in debt $19 trillion:

The State Department gave Hollywood $1 million to bring in a dozen filmmakers from other countries to educate them on how to make movies.

Hollywood can't afford to do that themselves?

Our embassy in London likes to throw around your money; $90,000 to pay for a British journalist to come here and cover our election, another $77,000 offered to the person who came up with the best program to educate UK students about our election process.  

And the embassy spent $75,000 flying Brits here for a 10 day junket to see how Americans do volunteer work.

And my favorite, the National Institutes of Health has spent $2 million, so far, studying what influences a child's view of food. One of the 7 reports they've issued so far proclaims children prefer clean food to food that has been sneezed on.

Mystery solved ... wonder no more.

I'm Kelly Ogle and that's My 2 Cents.