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Stimulus money down a rat hole

hypocritexposer

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List Compiled By Warner Todd Huston:



•$5 million to create a geothermal energy system for a shopping mall in Tennessee. The mall is over half empty of tenants and has had falling shopper attendance for years *

•$1.57 million to Penn State University study fossils in Argentina *

•$100,000 to a puppet theater in Minnesota *

•$2 million to build a replica railroad tourist trap in Carson City, Nev. *

•A boat cruise company in Chicago got almost $1 million to “combat terrorism” *

•$500,000 went to Ariz. State Univ. to study ant genetics *

•Another $450,000 went to Uinv. of Arizona to study ants *

•Almost $400,000 went to Univ. of New York to pay students to drink beer and smoke marijuana for a study there *

•$219,000 to the Nat’l Institute of Health to study if young people “hook-up” after getting drunk *

•$210,000 to the Univ. of Hawaii to study bees *

•$700,000 to crab fishermen in Oregon to pay for lost crab pots *

•$5,000 a person tax rebate if you buy a new electric golf cart *

•Up to $1 million went to prisoners in $250 stimulus checks *

•$54 mil to a New York Indian tribe to run its casino *

•$1 billion for a power plant in Mattoon, Illinois that is based on speculative science and may not even work **

•$15 million to back-road bridges that get little traffic in Wisconsin **

•$800,000 for a practically unused airport in Pennsylvania **

•$3.4 million for an animal walk way under a road in Florida **

•$1.15 million to install a guard rail for a lake that doesn’t even exist in Oklahoma **

•$10 million to renovate a rail station that has stood unused for a decade **

•$578,000 to battle homelessness in Union, New York even though the town says they have no homeless people there **

•$233,000 to the Univ. of Calif. to study why Africans vote… in Africa ***

•$2 million to build a new fire house in a Nevada town that has no firemen ***

•North Carolina schools got $4.4 million for literacy and math coaches… to teach their teachers! ***

•$54 million for a railroad project in Napa Valley went to a minority-owned company that then hired a local construction company for half the price, pocketing the rest ***

•A California company was given $15 million in stimulus money to monitor water quality in a stream it was under indictment for polluting previously**
 
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