Surely you have heard about some of the big efforts by President Barack Obama and liberal Democrats in Congress to "stimulate" our lagging economy by means of big spending to the tune of $787 billion.

The "stimulus" bill promoters boast that lots of jobs have been or will be created. Perhaps you have also heard the news that many thousands of the so-called "stimulus-spending jobs" just can't be "found."

Surely, some jobs will result from Washington's pouring out billion of dollars. But there are legitimate questions about whether that is U.S. Constitution-approved government business. And is it good economics to spend billions of dollars that have to be borrowed, since the federal government already has a debt of about $11.9 trillion, on which taxpayers must pay interest?

Much that the federal government does is simply not constitutional, wise, proper, sound nor even reasonable government business. But it is interesting that some Republicans in Congress have recently listed some humorous and serious bad examples:

* $300,000 for "A week mapping radioactive rabbit feces with detectors mounted in a helicopter flying 50 feet over the desert scrub."

* A $4,200 to $5,000 tax credit "payingAmericans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart."

* $219,000 in spending for a study in which "5,000 Syracuse University freshmen will divulge the details of their sex lives."

* $1 million to renovate Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, which is getting a $7 million facelift.

* $2.3 million of federal economic "stimulus" money for research in Connecticut involving "large numbers of anthropods" such as "nasty invasive insects like the longhorned beetle, the nun moth, and the infamous 'predator of the hemlock,' the woolly adelgid."

* $5 million for a snow-making facility "in the 15th snowiest city in the country," Duluth, Minn.

* $500,000 to study "Social networks like Facebook."

* $380,000 to "spay and neuter pets owned by low-income residents" of Wichita, Kan.

* $3.4 million for a turtle tunnel to help turtles cross under -- so as not to get smushed -- a busy highway in Tallahassee, Fla.

* $30 million toward a $100 million spring training complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies baseball teams in the Salt River-Pima-Maricopa Indian Community out west.

In a $787 billion "stimulus" bill, who knows what other "worthy" projects will be financed by "government money," borrowed against the future of all Americans?