Resolved Question: Is this the top 20 of the 100 wasteful spending in the stimulus the hope and change we asked for?

9 August 2010, 8:21 am

The construction of two Texas fire stations is delayed for more than a year, and it increases costs (San Antonio, TX) - $7.3 million A rail extension is to be built to get to professional sports stadiums and a casino (Pittsburgh, PA) for $62 million The University of North Carolina (Charlotte, NC) Developed An Interactive Dance Software for $762,372 The U.S. Forest Service Replaces The Windows in a Visitor Center That Was Closed in 2007 (Amboy, WA) for $554,763 An abandoned train station is to be converted into a Museum in Glassboro, NJ) for $1.2 million An analysis of exotic ants is to cost $1.9 million (San Francisco, CA) A $1.8 million road project threatens a pastor’s house (Newark, OH) An old abandoned iron furnace is to be renovated for $357,710 after money was squandered on same project years before (Fitchburg, KY) A power plant construction awarded $308 million won’t start for at least two years (Kern County, CA) A town replaces for $89,298 new sidewalks with newer sidewalks that lead to a ditch (Boynton, OK) Upgraded Office Space and Indoor Parking for Kansas Politicians (Topeka, Kansas) - $39.7 million plus: 12. Agency Under a Cloud Keeps Pool Open for the Summer at No Charge (Youngstown, OH) - $450,950 13. Project Costs Jobs, Drastically Reduces Shopping Center Business (Normandy Park, WA) - $3.8 million 14. Mohegan Sun Casino Owner Uses Funds for WNBA Practice Facility (Connecticut) - $54 million 15. Tree Planting and Urban Forest Creation (NV, SC, PA, GA) – $2.6 million 16. Restoration of One of Nation’s Least Visited Parks, Located on Remote Island (Key West, FL) - $13.3 million 17. Firm Gets No-Bid Environmental Cleanup Contract – for a Mess It Helped Make (Simi Valley, CA) - $15.8 million 18. Jamming for Dollars (Atlanta, GA) - $762,372 19. Nevada Prison’s Biomass Plant Too Expensive to Operate (Carson City, NV) - $620,000 20. Monkey and Chimpanzee Responses to Inequity (Atlanta, GA) - $677,462 http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=a7e82141-1a9e-4eec-b160-6a8e62427efb... Read More »

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