Our tax dollars at work.

In case anyone thinks that misuse of public funds taxpayers' money is unique to the UK, which I doubt, you might have a chuckle at this.

There are limits to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's quest for lean government. He seemed shocked yesterday to learn public servants were being sent to Weight Watchers at taxpayers' expense.

$30,000 well spent, because clearly fat bastards in safe public sector jobs can't possibly be expected to use their salaries to fight their flab. But I'll give Kevin Rudd credit in that he seems keen on scrapping it. Shame it's taken half his first term to find out about it in the first place.

UPDATE: Wonder if we also paid for this research into the possible extinction of men... I mean fuck, Mrs Angry will no doubt cope but that's scary. Or it would be except we're talking about possible extinction in five million years time. Meh.