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The North Amityville Fire Department spent nearly seven thousand dollars on a hotel stay 11 miles away from its firehouse.
The federal government developed a cost-cutting system that costs big bucks and almost no one wants to use it.
In 2011 the United States government spent over twenty million dollars subsidizing cotton and its marketing abroad.
IRS computers became “inoperable,” and remain so, after a contractor did some computer maintenance for a whopping $1.5 million fee.
An attorney in Syracuse, New York actually billed her county for 33 hours worked in one day for a public-defender program.
The State of Illinois subsidized its State Fair to the tune of $140 million or more, by robbing other funds and agencies.
In 2011 the Commerce Department dropped two million dollars on a federal grant for a wine education center in Washington State.
Two hospital CEOs each made a bad real-estate sale-leaseback deal and stuck taxpayers with the expense of bailouts.
The State Department spent over a million dollars on 14 swimming pools at American embassies and mission residences.
Earmarks, even after Congress removed them from last year's appropriations bills, are back, from Republicans and Democrats alike.
