YouCut Launches First Citizen Review
I am fully in support of hunting down and stopping wasteful spending wherever we find it. Now the Republicans in Congress want citizens to join the hunt.
Today, as we face the challenge of ending the culture of reckless spending in Washington, we would do well to learn the lessons of the past. No one person can do this task alone, but if we each do our part, together we will succeed.
In that spirit, today we are launching an experiment - the first YouCut Citizen Review of a government agency. Together, we will identify wasteful spending that should be cut and begin to hold agencies accountable for how they are spending the people's money.
Click here to go to our website, take a few minutes and help us turn the spotlight on wasteful government spending.
Regards,
Eric Cantor
House Republican Whip
From the YouCut website:
We are launching an experiment - the first YouCut Citizen Review of a government agency. Together, we will identify wasteful spending that should be cut and begin to hold agencies accountable for how they are spending your money.
First, we will take a look at the National Science Foundation (NSF) - Congress created the NSF in 1950 to promote the progress of science. For this purpose, NSF makes more than 10,000 new grant awards annually, many of these grants fund worthy research in the hard sciences. Recently, however NSF has funded some more questionable projects - $750,000 to develop computer models to analyze the on-field contributions of soccer players and $1.2 million to model the sound of objects breaking for use by the video game industry. Help us identify grants that are wasteful or that you don't think are a good use of taxpayer dollars.
Step One: Look for Questionable Grants
Click here to open the National Science Foundation website. In the "Search Award For" field, try some keywords, such as: success, culture, media, games, social norm, lawyers, museum, leisure, stimulus, etc. to bring up grants. If you find a grant that you believe is a waste of your taxdollars, be sure to record the award number.
Use this form to submit the award numbers of grants that you believe are wasteful; we will publish a report outlining the grants identified by the YouCut community.
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