Maybe just check where the money goes

From: CanterburyTales.org

From The Daily Caller:
Top Ten: Government Spending at its stupidest
Maybe if our government stopped spending money on these types of things it would be a million times easier to make a balanced budget.

• $764,825 for a study on how college students use cell phones and social media
• $136,555 for teachers to retrace Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in England
• $55,660 on butter packaging
• $606,000 for a study about online dating
• $484,000 for a pizza restaurant
• $48,700 towards the Second Annual Hawaii Chocolate Festival 
• $147,138 to build a magic museum 
• $96,000 on iPads for kindergarteners
• $175,587 for a study on the link between cocaine and the mating habits of quail
• $130,987 for dragon robots