I don’t want what I am paying for

Via Ann Althouse, I learned that the government is paying people to go door to door and pay people $90 to answer questions about  “drinking, medicine and drug use, mood, anxiety, behavior and medical conditions and personality.” Like any sensible person, she wouldn’t do it. But others have:

Yet over 100,000 people have participated. $90 is an impressive amount of money, perhaps especially to people with alcohol problems. As Meade said later, you could buy a lot of gin for $90. I’m irked as a taxpayer. Is this a federal jobs program to tide over erstwhile census workers?

I don’t know what kind of program this is. But they are taking saliva samples from the fools who consent to the survey, and you can be sure that the results will be grist for the mill run by the public policy people who consider it their sacrosanct duty to build a better world by subtracting as much freedom as possible.

I realize that the people behind these “studies” went to nice Ivy League schools where they met and married other people who went to nice Ivy League schools, but I just wish they would leave the rest of us alone. Unfortunately, leaving people alone is not in their nature. Their twisted version of noblesse oblige means butting in and intervening in people’s lives to the maximum extent possible, and making the rest of us pay them big salaries to do it.

Which means that they are using our tax dollars to pay despicable fools to knock on doors and offer $90 to all desperate takers, after which they will use the junk data so gleaned to issue “scientific” pronouncements.

I don’t want them to have my money for their junk science, OK?

It especially hurts with April 15 looming.