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In 1982 the Synthetic Fuels Corporation won the Golden Fleece Award for spending $>44K on a study to give its personnel raises.
The Aldine Independent School District in Harris County, Texas tried to take a senior's home for a high-school stadium parking lot.
The State Department plans to spend $6 million U.S. taxpayer dollars to build a United States pavilion for the 2025 Osaka World Expo.
The food stamp program loses $1 billion a month to fraud and waste, with some benefits going even to lottery winners.
The federal government gave a Teamsters pension fund $127 million to cover 3500 people. The problem: those 3500 are all dead.
The Biden administration plans a $12 billion subsidy program to pay automakers to retool to make hybrid and battery powered EVs.
In 1982, the U.S. Department of Agriculture actually studied the link between food preferences and personality and social identity.
Edwin Denson, manager of the Wisconsin pension fund, draws an annual salary of $1.2 million - eight times what the governor makes.
The Washington, D.C. Metro will be short $750 million and will likely ask the city government, and Virginia and Maryland, for support.
A $42 billion program for broadband internet, ostensibly for underserved areas, is going instead to wealthy areas.
