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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Taxpayers Subsidize Scotty Pippen, Sam Donaldson To Not Grow Crops

Just another waste of taxpayer dollars. And now Obama's Dept. of Agriculture is shutting down a database that shows us just how wasteful they are.

Remember Scotty Pippen, the former NBA star? He was also a farmer. That's right, a real hayseed, who was so good at it that the federal government paid him $130,000 over a five-year period not to grow crops.

The federal farm bureaucrats naturally opted out of disclosing how much they were paying people like former ABC News White House correspondent Sam Donaldson and multi-millionaire David Rockefeller not to grow crops. No doubt the decision was made to "save tax dollars."