In 2011 the government spend more than eight hundred thousand dollars tracking college students who volunteered for this Orwellian project.
Las Vegas got a $697,000 federal grant (worth nearly a million today) to place decorative rocks along one of its highways in 2011.
The VA (Department of Veterans Affairs) wasted millions on costly conferences with outlandish perquisites for attendees.
In 2011 the Commerce Department dropped two million dollars on a federal grant for a wine education center in Washington State.
The Internal Revenue Service, in 2011, awarded tax credits, intended for homeowners, to non-homeowners, including a child of three.
In 2011, the federal child health and development agency spent millions on television and electricity for seven remote villages in Vietnam.
Chicago tried to build a superstation to connect its two airports to its railway nexus. After millions of dollars, the station never opened.
The United States, as far back as FY 2010, spent millions in foreign aid to America's creditors, without negotiation of debt relief.
In 2011 the government granted over a hundred thousand dollars to a video games museum to study these games for conservation themes.
Oklahoma got a new visitor’s center, courtesy of the federal government, while other Oklahoma infrastructure went begging.