The city of Lynn, Massachusetts cleverly used federal grants on various beautification projects, and no one counted the cost.
The city of Bell, California lost $5.5 million dollars to corruption in 2010 and for about three years thereafter.
Why did the Department of Housing and Urban Development pay $60,000 to build a rear-entrance garden for a pizza parlor?
In 2010, the U.S. Department of Transportation spent over half a billion dollars on highway beautification instead of repairs.
In a story that adds new meaning to the question, "What color is your parachute?" Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) earmarked $60,500 of taxpayers' money to fund...
The Department of Education had a reputation as a waste of money fifteen years ago, when Tom Coburn exposed two particularly bad programs.
In 2010, a Washington State town spent federal funds to build a walking bridge across a river that already had a crossing.
Many times, disaster funds have gone to one-shot parties for the victims, instead of rebuilding and repair help they could have used.
In 2010, the government paid a leftist professor 3/16 of a million dollars to create a video game in protest of capitalism.
Minnesota bought luxury Rocket Rider buses for a private bus shuttle company, using some of Obama’s stimulus money.