It seems like every day I read countless stories about government's inability to do anything with efficiency or common sense. And it is your tax dollars that pay the price. So now, for your enjoyment, I have a few examples that I have gathered just from the last day.

-A middle school in California spends $10,000 a year to teach advanced Spanish to students who are already fluent in Spanish.

-Newspapers in Minnesota are getting a $238,000 grant to retrain their staffs on how to use the Internet.

-The federal government is going to fund a $5 million national media campaign to promote the benefits of married life to young adults.

-It took five Nebraska state employees to assemble a Sony PlayStation (bought by your tax dollars), which they then proceeded to play on state time.

-Remember the story about Clayton County bus drivers who were told to wear uniforms in order to prevent terrorists from hijacking school buses?? Clayton County decided to buck up $18,000 for the uniform shirts, but now refuses to pay $75,000 for the pants.

-And how about this $410 billion omnibus bill filled with 9,000 earmarks .. Jamie Dupree has an extensive list of earmarks, which you can read on his blog. But just to get you started, here are some other earmarks highlighted on Michelle Malkin's blog:

• $200,000 for "Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program," pg. 283
• Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173
• $5.8 million earmark for the "Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate...for the planning and design of a building & an endowment," pg. 232
• and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.

Aren't you glad that you have government to spend your earned wealth so wisely?