Grants Pass, Oregon, in 2012, insisted on artistic bus stops, and applied for a federal grant - and the grant process made them cost more.
Starbucks is getting a massive corporate welfare deal from Tennessee, where the government wants them to relocate their headquarters.
Lifeguards in Los Angeles County make a staggering three hundred thousand dollars or more in pay and benefits.
The War (Defense) Department is actually required by law to submit wish lists to Congress, rather than submit a realistic budget.
In 2012 the National Science Foundation actually produced a musical to sell the climate change narrative, and spent $697,000 on it.
The San Francisco Zoo suffers chronic mismanagement with employees hiring their own relatives as contractors.
The New York City Public School system is literally renting some of its schools - and some of those remain vacant.
Franklin County in Maine agreeed to finance the building of a dam and reservoir to serve a ski resort. The dam never went up.
The War Department has spent $7 million on drugs for treating erectile dysfunction, including Viagra (sildenafil/Pfizer), since 2021.
A multimillion-dollar program to provide training for new police officers in Iraq squandred 88 percent of the funds.