An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded . . .

Dr. Lynn Fiellin, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine, $3.9 million over five years to develop a video game to teach “sex, drug and alcohol negotiation and refusal skills" to children 9-14 years of age.
The game will feature “virtual characters or avatars” that are guided by the children playing the game to make decisions about whether to engage in behaviors that put them at risk of being infected with HIV.   Read the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Ah, $3.9 million is just a drop in a bucket when it comes to our bureaucrats and politicians spending money.  Our money, our taxes, that’s all, and it must be redistributed from the people to those who work for the betterment of us all.  And who could dare be against a program that teaches children about safe sex skills?  

So what’s the big deal when a figure in the billions is most often used to describe government waste?  This is pocket change as it only amounts to a bit over a penny from each of us.

I’ve got a few of those canning glass jars I use to for my daily pocket change.  The last time I took the jars to the bank for counting and depositing I had enough for two exceptionally good steak dinners, plus pocket change left over.  Think of how much each federal agency could save by eliminating these million dollar fringe awards.  But our congress keeps increasing the budgets of agencies.

So, when the general election comes around this November, it’s time to replace those House and Senate incumbents with brand new fiscally conservative faces who will work to put binders on these federal agencies.

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