Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) have put out Summertime Blues to show Americans how their tax dollars are being squandered by President Obama in the name of “Stimulus.”  Would you believe that they have found Stimulus money being used to study the effects of how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine?  No way.  How ’bout $1.9 million of your tax dollars to listen to foreign Ants?  Sound real?  What about $296,385 of your tax dollars being used to study dog domestication?  Too crazy to believe?  Right wing fear mongering?  Would you believe $141,002 to study “dinosaur eggs and other fossils” in China?

76. Field Trip to Study Dinosaur Eggs…in China (Bozeman, MT) – $141,002

This past spring, nine students from Montana State University (MSU) were given a six-week, all expense paid trip to China, funded by the National Science Foundation.  MSU received a grant to send students to work with researchers at the Natural History Museum in Hangzhou studying various dinosaur eggs and other fossils.  In a conversation with a local resident of Wuzhen, one of the students said “I told him that I was here to study dinosaur eggs. He replied with, ’Bloody hell! That’s the sort of Summertime Blues thing you just can’t make up!’”  While there, the students spent six weeks examining and cataloguing the eggs. As recorded on the group’s blog, however, they were still able to take plenty of time to let their hair down hiking on the Great Wall, spending a day at the Xixi National Wetland Park, exploring several small towns, visiting the opera, and touring the Tiatai temples.   Not to worry though, according to one student blogger, “Believe it or not from previous blog posts, we have been hard at work doing research.”

Guess how many jobs this one created according to the President’s own web site recovery.gov?  ZERO.