Federal Funded Programs

      So I googled, federal funded programs and foudn a huge list of them. I kind of skimmed the list to see if anything really caught my eye. There are two programs that are pretty much the same exact thing. They are called the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Chesapeake Bay Studies. Then I looked to see how much money each program recieves and found out that all together $22,000,000 is spent on these two programs. The Chesapeake Bay Program recieves $15,000,000 of that money whereas the Chesapeake Bay Studies recieves $7,000,000 of that total. Then I clicked on each and read the descriptions of both. They are pretty much exactly the same except one of them is shorter because it was already described in the previous description. So that got me thinking why do we need to spend and extra 7 million dollars on a program that does not benift a mass majority of people when there are other programs that need that money.
     Not only was I surprised that the government had that many programs and some of them were doubled. Also scrolling down the page I honestly dropped my jaw a little bit at the amount of money some organizations and people are getting. The U.S. is in such debt and yet most of the programs the government funds costs more than $50,000. On the website I looked at there were 1607 programs that the government funds. The webiste also says that they spend about $1,974,042,215,000 on these programs. That amount of money just blew my mind. They should get rid of a few federal funded programs like the Cheaseapke Bay Studies and maybe our debt crisis could be lessend.