Taxpayers Pay $3.2 Million for Monkeys to Binge Drink in Missouri

By Elizabeth Nelson

We just can't make this stuff up.  Have you heard about this, our Democrat-controlled government wasting multi-millions of our taxpayer dollars on a pernicious study letting Missouri monkeys getting mindfully wasted binge drink, at will, in order to see what the long-term effects on their bodies. 

Oh, and we can't forget the government's drunken mice study in the past. I want to know, where is PETA on this study and the drunk mice study before it? We can't even make a movie that looks like an animal gets hurt, let alone a pernicious study to get monkeys binge drinking.

There’s a whole lot of drinking going on in the name of government science, and some watchdogs think it’s the American taxpayer who is getting hammered. Right now the National Institutes of Health is spending $3.2 million to get monkeys to drink alcohol excessively to determine what effect it has long term on their body tissue.

NIH also has handed out $69,459 to the University of Missouri to study whether text messaging college students before they attend pre-football game tailgates will encourage them to drink less and “reduce harmful effects related to alcohol consumption.” And the government’s premier research arm has doled out money in recent years for research on binge-drinking mice, inebriated gamblers and pilots seeking the sensation of flying drunk — on a simulator of course. Read more foxnews

This is just further proof of our Democrat-controlled wasteful spending and their not thinking outside of the little box they sit inside. Seriously now, if they really wanted to see lab specimens, all they had to do was go into any DC bar and they could see any number of drunken monkeys and binge rats of all ages, races and sexes, from every political background. 

Ask them at what age they started drinking and they can figure out if they fit their criteria for their "what effect it has, long term, on their body tissue."  Bingo-Bango, the specimen in question has paid for the study, not us, and the Government has the information they wanted.