Rand Paul’s 2022 Festivus report outlining governmental waste


Biden walks, talks, and spends your money like a drunken sailor.

Hardworking taxpayers are bearing the burden of his woke policies, including the cost of supporting millions of illegals he allowed into the country under the pretense of asylum. 

I am not opposed to orderly, sustainable immigration of genuinely persecuted and well-vetted individuals who can be assimilated and become productive citizens.  

However, I am convinced Biden’s immigration policies are meant to form an easily manipulated, dependent voting block loyal to the Democrat party, using social programs and race baiting to maintain allegiance.

Unfortunately, I don’t think Biden will allow many refugees from Marxist countries, because they recognize the dangers of our budding Neo-Marxism and are warning others about it.

Senator Rand Paul has prepared his annual Festivus report, outlining waste in the recent $1.9 trillion spending bill.

Here are some items from the 2022 report:

  • $475b annual interest payment on the federal debt
  • $4.5b giving ineligible individuals fraudulent COVID Economic Injury Disaster Grants 
  • $1.7b maintenance of 77,000 empty federal buildings that can’t be sold or transferred to others in a timely manner due to excessive, government-imposed restrictions
  • $210m basic education projects in Jordan
  • $175m expansion of a rarely used, unreliable Washington DC streetcar system
  • $168m helping illegal immigrants avoid deportation
  • $140m construction of an 800-room Broward County, FL luxury hotel using COVID relief funds
  • $50m boosting Tunisian travel sector during COVID
  • $31.5m purchases of luxury automobiles with defrauded COVID relief funds
  • $28m useless forest-patterned military uniforms purchased for Afghanistan military campaign
  • $17m unused hotel rooms for illegal immigrants
  • $9m yoga and concert park for woke Austin, Texas
  • $3m museum for Gandhi
  • $3m watching hamsters on steroids fight
  • $2.5m Super Bowl commercial reminders to fill out census forms
  • $2.3m injecting beagle puppies with cocaine
  • $2.1m encouraging Ethiopians to wear shoes
  • $1.1m training mice to binge drink
  • $1.6m upgrading turf on Whitewater Unified School District sports field in Wisconsin with COVID relief funds
  • $689k studying romantic parrot behavior
  • $675k studying social life and collective intelligence of ants
  • $520k studying racial aggression in mice (woke academia at their finest)
  • $200k radio campaign reminding drivers to stop at railroad crossings
  • $192k Starbuck espresso machines for Department of Defense
  • $187.5k verifying kids love their pets
  • $119k verifying whether imaginary character Thanos can snap his fingers while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet

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Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) and Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) of Indiana faithfully opposed this bill.  

Unfortunately, Senator Todd Young (R-IN) voted for it.  Why? 

Young also voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, without the Lee Amendment providing well-worded protection of the religious freedom of individuals and organizations like bible-believing churches that only acknowledge traditional monogamous marriages.

Young claims the amendment was unnecessary.  Apparently, he thinks he knows more than Senator Mike Lee (R–UT), former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, about safeguarding religious freedom from the woke.  I don’t think so.

The woke demand everyone affirm their “progressive” ideology.  It is “progressive” to deny the traditional, biblical definition of marriage. They are creating cunningly devised legal justification to enforce their ideology upon all. 

Fundamentals of biblical Christianity including the patriarchal nuclear family and gender roles are under attack.  God’s good design and instructions for human flourishing are despised by the woke.

Christians, don’t confuse the embrace of the woke for a cuddle.  Like a boa constrictor, they are slowly squeezing this nation into submission.  They view Christianity as a hindrance to their new world order.

See Rand Paul’s congressional speech on governmental waste in the related content section below.

Comments? Email me at [email protected] or leave a reply below. Respectful comments and questions without expletives will be posted and I will respond to them.

Robert Sparkman


This post is a more detailed version of a letter to the editor that I submitted to the local newspaper. The letter to the editor is referenced in the Related Content section.

Concerning the Related Content section, I encourage evaluating the content with discernment. Some sources of information may reflect a libertarian or non-Christian perspective and I would not agree with all of their values, but in general I think they offer some worthwhile comments and criticisms. I do not necessarily agree with every comment by every person, but in general, I find them to be valuable or I would not include them.


Unlike most mainstream media outlets, I am interested in truth rather than mere partisan propaganda. This blog post reflects my well-considered convictions on the related issues, and provides support for my assertions. I acknowledge the possibility that my understanding of events and information may need refinement and welcome legitimate criticism. Respectful comments and questions without expletives and personal attacks will be posted and I will respond to them.

Comments? Email me at [email protected] or leave a reply below.


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Note: This is a letter to the editor that I submitted to the local newspaper. Some or all of the content is applicable to a general audience. The article was written under the constraints of 600 words, which is generous for a letter to the editor, but insufficient to address every nuance or facet of complex topics.

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