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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.
The Hudson River Tunnel (and renovation of the North Tunnel) received another $3.8 billion award, and it still won't be enough.
NYC must cut services to satisfy a $7 billion budget deficit – because it has a $11 billion bill to pay to care for 143,000 migrants.
In 1982 the Synthetic Fuels Corporation won the Golden Fleece Award for spending $>44K on a study to give its personnel raises.
