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In 2012 the federal government gave the City of Indianapolis a six-figure grant to fund free bus fare for residents attending the Super Bowl.
In 2012 Perdue University took a six-figure federal grant to produce a study on how to make the game of golf easier to learn.
U.S. Investigations Services, tasked with investigating backgrounds of new federal hires, dumped several cases without proper vetting.
In 2011 an upstate New York dairy farmer received a grant for a new butter packing machine. Cost: $66,000 in 2011 dollars.
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.
