“It [The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ] includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a “magnetic levitation” line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called “volcano monitoring.” Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.”

– Bobby Jindal in the Republican response to President Obama’s Address to Congress, February 24, 2009 (5:07 into video)