Stop "Helping"

If only we could get the government to stop "helping" us maybe we could eliminate deficit spending. According to Senator Tom Coburn's, (R-OK), latest report highlighting the worst waste of 2008. You can find his press release and a link to the full report here. If you get nauseous easily you probably don't won't to read the whole thing but here are a few gems;

Examples of waste in 2008 include:

• $188,000 for Lobster Institute in Maine, home of the “LobsterCam”
• $1 million for bike paths on Louisiana levees while levees await basic repairs
• $2.4 million for a retractable shade canopy at a park in West Virginia
• $24.6 million for the National Park Service’s 100th year birthday in 2016 - 8 years early
• $3.2 million on a blimp the Pentagon does not want
• $367,000 wasted by a Texas school board on items like an inflatable alligator and under-the-sea waterslide, among other things
• $5 million for a bridge to a zoo parking lot in St. Louis
• $9,000 for a non-functioning airplane-shaped gas station in Tennessee
• $300,000 for specialty potatoes for high-end restaurants

I'm Just Saying - how much more of this "help" do we have to pay for?