#8) How much USDA is spending to tell Americans to eat caviar.
Junk food, luxury drinks, soap operas, and billions of dollars in improper food stamp payments.
#2: Professional sports loophole. Taxpayers subsidized NFL, PGA and other professional sports organizations receiving special tax breaks.
#4: Scarcely used Oklahoma airport averaging one landing per month receives federal funds but the state keeps it open to transfer funds elsewhere.
#12) Taxpayer-funded cell phones.
Moroccan pottery classes to improve "economic competitiveness of Morocco."
#6) NASA funds research studying the best food for astronauts to eat should they travel to Mars.
#7: National Science Foundation grant to construct a robotic squirrel.
#24: Government-funded study on how golfers can improve their game by using their imagination.
#9: for failing tourist boat sinking private business in Alaska.
#1: Taxpayers spent in 2012 to fund the most unproductive and unpopular Congress in modern history.
#26: Another bridge to nowhere in Dayton, Ohio.
#17: Cold War-era Russian weapons institutes program recruiting new scientists with U.S. funds.
#28: 'Free' bus rides for Super Bowl attendees subsidized by taxpayers.
#19: Smokey Bear balloons.
#22: Pet shampoo company fetches more than half-a-million taxpayer dollars.
#31: In an effort to prevent drunk driving, the Michigan State Police used a $10,000 in federal funds to purchase talking urinal cakes.
#32: Cartoon school in Vermont receives real taxpayer money.
#45: Vineyards and wineries received taxpayer funds to assist with their grape-growing endeavors.
#46: Medicaid provides billions of dollars in payments to tax cheats who owe million in unpaid taxes.
#51: Return of the Jedi - taxpayers fund Star Wars Day event in Massachusetts public library. 
#53: National Endowment for the Arts funds circus classes.
#66: No joke: the State Department paid $100,000 to send an American comedy group on a seven-city tour of India.
#1: The most unproductive and unpopular Congress in modern history does nothing while America struggles.
Senator Coburn's plan to reduce our long-term deficit over ten years. "Back in Black" saves roughly $3 trillion from entitlements, $3 trillion from discretionary and other accounts, $1 trillion in defense, $1 trillion from ending some spending in the tax code, and about $1 trillion in interest costs.
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