We’re sitting on two trillion dollars?

It sounded like a great idea:

“Back in 2005, Congress earmarked tax dollars for a
futuristic magnetic levitation train across the Mojave
desert to Las Vegas,” says CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson.

A levitation train. Because you want to cross the
desert as fast as possible — especially when it stands
between you and the Liberace Museum.

“But a series of technical errors caused so many delays
supporters abandoned the project. The $45 billion could
sit around forever,” says Attkisson.

What? Yes. Because the law says this money can only be
spent on levitating trains, even if they never build them!
And how about this one:

“$2.7 million tax dollars left over from an earmark for
the 1996 Olympics,” says Attkisson.

And which by law can only be spent ONLY on the 1996
Olympics, which means they’ll being spending it, let’s
see…NEVER. Oh, correction, as soon as Doc Brown
finally fixes his Time Machine.

These are just two examples. And according to Senator
Tom Coburn, and he says these numbers are official,
all this stuff adds up to $2 trillion unspent dollars
being carried over to next year, a third of which isn’t
earmarked for anything.

So why doesn’t he write a bill to spend it on jobs, or
pay down the debt? Because he says such a bill would never
get to the floor.

“They don’t want to fight the political battle of
saying, well he gaveth and he taketh away. They don’t want
that negative press,” says Coburn.

What? Finding two trillion dollars would create
negative press? Come on, really, why can’t Congress get
together and fix this?

“The encounter could create a time paradox that would
unravel the very fabric of the space, time continuum and
destroy the entire universe,” warns Doc Brown.

Ok well, that’s a good reason.