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The National Science Foundation once spent $440,000 on research into online dating and how that affects its practitioners.
Conferences on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) offered luxuries to their conferees that contributed nothing to a solution.
The federal government’s airport subsidies pay for commercial flight routes that carry few passengers because people drive the distance.
In 2010 the federal government spent a million dollars putting poems up for zoo visitors to read in five big-city zoos.
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.
