Stopped reading at "Death Star". Kind of ashamed that I blew 20 seconds typing this. Also ashamed that probably 50K in tax dollars were blown in responding to it.
I am proud if $0.00043 of my taxpayer dollars went to this. It gave me more value than I get from the vast majority of $0.00043 increments of my taxes.
($50k/$2.9 trillion government taxation revenue * my approximate tax paid yearly = $0.00043)
Now I am as critical as anyone of frivolous public spending, but how in god's name did you get to $50,000 for this? At worst, this took one Friday afternoon of this government employee's time. Just how well do you think this guy is paid?
One afternoon of this guy's time at $50,000 would mean an annual salary of $26,100,000.
(261 workdays per year * 2 * $50,000)
In all likelihood, this was either done on this guy's own time or took like an hour....
($50k/$2.9 trillion government taxation revenue * my approximate tax paid yearly = $0.00043)