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In 1982, the U.S. Commerce Department spent $440,000 holding training sessions in three-star hotels. Another Golden Fleece.
The Saucon Valley school district paid $200,000 to settle a lawsuit by the Satanic Temple and allow a club that doesn't yet exist.
The Maryland Healthe Department lost track of $1.4 billion in federal funds related to the COVID-19 epidemic.
The federal government gives property away when it could sell it instead and receive $3 billion per year from willing buyers.
Michigan is getting $1.5 billion from the federal treasury for high-speed Internet, but has been sharing it with private entertainment venues.
In 1982, a $23,000 light show malfunctioned and created a confusing experience for the small crowd of attendees.
The Environmental Protection Agency spent $11 million on a key database that lacks proper security, allowing former staff to access it.
The site USASpending.gov is supposed to be the official monitor of federal spending - but 49 agencies won't report to it.
New York State trial judges will be paid $232,000 in four years, more than 47 State governors receive in salary.
In 1982, Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) highlighted a federal program to teach teens to make shirts - that made not one shirt.
