Sequester by Choice: Frogs, pine cones still getting fed dollars

April 1, 2013

Despite deficit woes, Obama pushes forward on bizarre projects

While the U.S. Senate, for the first time in years, has adopted a budget, it includes $1 trillion in new taxes, adding to the record deficit.

The budget also doesn’t align with a House plan that spends hundreds of billions of dollars less. Both, however, project spending more than the government receives far into the future.

But even so, frogs, Uganda and pine cone projects apparently are so important to the Obama administration that it’s worth borrowing money and paying interest to fund them.

Also, there’s high-priced construction of a new embassy in Mexico and the need to prevent crime – in El Salvador.

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