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ANN KENEVAN on November 16, 2024

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Remember those shovel ready jobs? $ 831 BILLION DOLLARS Here's a list of 100 head scratchers .. $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.... View MoreRemember those shovel ready jobs? $ 831 BILLION DOLLARS Here's a list of 100 head scratchers .. $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film. 71. Beautification of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip ($1.1 million) 73. Hollywood Entertainment Museum ($20,000) 74. Controversial Helicopter Program Gets Stimulus Boost ($20,000) 75. Contracts Awarded to Firms Suspended for Suspected Fraud ($30 million) 76. Amtrak Loses $32 Per Passenger, Rewarded with Windfall ($1.3 billion) 77. Fire Station without Firefighters ($2 million) 78. Low Priority Waste Water Projects Getting Stimulus Funds ($47.8 million) 79. Money for Lighthouse Repairs on Uninhabited Island (Nearly $1.5 million) 80. College with Teachers “Unqualified to Teach in Their Fields” Receive Millions ($31.3 million) 81. Brooklyn Slumlord Gets Share of Stimulus Funds ($270,000) 82. Protecting against Carpet Beetles ($187,632) 83. Indiana Sending Half of Weatherization Funds to Politically Active Builders Group ($66 million) 84. Pedestrian Bridge Few Will Use ($80,000) 85. Town Doesn’t Know What to Do With Money ($25,000) 86. Dance Troupe to Weatherize Homes in Washington, D.C.($935,000) 87. SBA Loan Program Expects 60 Percent Default Rate ($255 million) 88. Removing Lead Paint from a Pedestrian Bridge ($3.5 million) 89. School District Splurges on iPod Touches ($75,129) 90. Global Warming Field Trip to Copenhagen for 11 Students ($49,818) 91. Audit Finds Abuse of Tax Credit Program ($504 million) 92. Ohio Town to Turn Railroad Crossings into “Quiet Zone”($800,000) 93. Pennsylvania Winery Uses Stimulus Funds to Help Pay for Building Already under Construction ($25,000) 94. Abandoned “Eyesore” Train Station to Get Green Renovation ($1.8 million) 95. Despite Delays and Overruns, Space Telescope Gets Boost ($65 million) 96. Museum Receives Geothermal Grant after Hosting Stimulus Signing Ceremony ($2.6 million) 97. Money to Airport Authority Cited for Having Problems Managing Federal Money ($9.6 million) 98. Bureaucratic Bungling Slows Homeless Prevention Grants in Nevada ($4.1 million) 99. Learning to Cooperate by Observing Birds ($90,000) 100. Climate-Controlled Water Taxis Get New Home ($750,000) *Ch ttps://posey.house.gov/uploadedfiles/coburnmccainstimulusspendingreport.pdfheck out the Report:

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