We just keep spending money we don't have

Received this from my Congressional Rep.

As the national debt approaches $17 trillion, you would expect federal bureaucrats to think twice before wasting taxpayer dollars.

You would be wrong.

The latest example is a $1.5 million grant, paid by the American taxpayer, to study the smoking habits of women in the rural Brazilian state Parana.

This comes on the heels of a $140,000 study of pig manure in Thailand, a $400,000 expenditure to promote clean air in Indonesia and a $27 million grant to teach Moroccans how to make pottery – something Moroccans have been doing successfully since at least the 5th century B.C.

With 22 million Americans out of work or underemployed, Washington continues to spend money irresponsibly on projects of no value to the American people.

If our nation is ever to dig out from the debt hole it has created through fiscal mismanagement, Washington must end its addiction to reckless spending.