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The Department of Energy, responsible for the energy habits of other federal agencies, wasted electricity in its offices.
The Grateful Dead took a $615,000 federal grant to establish a "free" museum at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Shreveport, Louisiana cleaned mold and mildew from a building - an abandoned housing project - then demolished it anyway.
The Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) squandered money on a deserted monkey house and over 300 vacant buildings.
Cities shamelessly misused federal Weed and Seed funds to pay for such frivolous pursuits as soccer games and corrugated cardboard shredding.
The federal government spent money on a bike center, within walking distance of a bridge that had recently collapsed.
Topline: Maine lobsters are known for their sharp claws, and in 2008 they could have taught the federal government a thing or two about penny pinching.
Topline: In 2008, Congress went against the Pentagon’s wishes and forced it to buy a surveillance blimp the military didn’t even want.
Lobbying to retain a contract for anti-chemical powder for our troops could have cost lives in combat, all to please the Clintons.
In 2008 the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation tried to do a barn census, spent $150,000 on the project, then abandoned it.
