PROJECT PUNCHLINE -- "the truth is out there?"

Just what is the government doing with our tax dollars? You didn't buy that crock about it going to corporate welfare, political pork and the military did you?

The TRUE story behind where our money goes.

P.S. This is my entry in the writng exercise based on that stupid Geico ad tag line.

P.P.S. Sorry folks, I tried to resist but this idea got stuck in my head and it was real slow at work and ...

Project Punchline
by John in Wauwatosa

The project director reviewed the results of the latest tests. The government wanted a concise report summarizing the project’s current findings or funding would be canceled. Billions had been spent on the project, the energy bill for the core component, the time machine, could bankrupt most countries. The results so far were not encouraging.

Lab one was a sea of torn and trampled paper, broken pencils and several shattered calculators. I040 Easy was recognizable on one of the larger scraps of paper.

Lab two was a mine-field of broken and smoking electronics. Dark plastic ribbons crisscrossed the room like barbed wire on a WWI battlefield. Torn booklets littered the room like confetti. 12:00 flashed mindlessly from one of the savagely mangled machines.

Lab three was something out of a horror film with blood and gore covering everything. In the midst of it all stood a blood-encrusted hairy man with a pronounced brow-ridge over his eyes. He beat mindlessly on the ruins of a PC with what once had been a green reptile.

“So easy a caveman could do it, my a**!” the director wrote, concluding his report.