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The Federal Aviation Administration spent $5 million on a three-week-long Christmas party in 2009 and called it a conference.
The Orange County (California) supervisor used his job to get a sweetheart deal for a friend, worth $275,000.
The chief revenue raiser in the Mississippi House of Representatives takes pork barrel spending to an absurd and outrageous new level.
The federal government wrote $22 million in grants for universities that have radical professors on their faculties.
A Chicago nonprofit received $50 million while an abused foster-child center allowed sexual assault and even trafficking to go on.
The Sawyer Bridge in New Hampshire got hundreds of thousands in Obama stimulum money in 2009, yet no one can cross it.
The film Joker Folie a Deux cost California $20 million in uncollected taxes to get made, an example of bad film tax credit policy.
State governments across the USA have $811 billion in debt that exceeds their assets, mainly from unfunded pension liabilities.
New York State insists that small towns and some counties share government services, like courts - and everything ends up costing more.
The Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in Oklahoma for $50 million, only to have the upstream river dry out, so the lake never formed.
