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ANN KENEVAN on February 5, 2025

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WAS IT ALL KICK BACKS TO DEMOCRATS NOT RAILWAYS, BRIDGES, HIGHWAYS? OBAMA'S $863 BILLION DOLLARS of shovel ready jobs for democrats! ... View MoreWAS IT ALL KICK BACKS TO DEMOCRATS NOT RAILWAYS, BRIDGES, HIGHWAYS? OBAMA'S $863 BILLION DOLLARS of shovel ready jobs for democrats! Here's a list of 100 head scratchers ... 1.“Almost Empty” Mall Awarded Energy Grant ($5 million) Renovations for Federal Building as Expensive as New Building ($133 million) DTV Advertising Agency Generates Three Jobs ($5.9 million) Research to Develop Supersonic Corporate Jets ($4.7 Million) Water Pipeline to a Money-Losing Golf Course ($2.2 million) Police Boat Gets High-Tech Upgrade Even As Force May be Downsized ($190,000) Program to Control Home Appliances From a Remote Location ($787,250) 18-Mile Tourist Rail Extended ($2 million) Dinner Cruise Company Gets Terrorism Prevention Money ($943,190) Hanford Nuclear Site Gets Billions for Failed Cleanup Effort ($1.9 billion) All Aboard The Wine Train!($54 million) Broadband Map That May be Obsolete by the Time It’s Complete ($350 million) Grant to Fund Search for Fossils ... In Argentina ($1.57 million) Anti-Capitalist, Socially-Conscious Puppet Shows ($100,000) Trail to Minnesota Twins Baseball Stadium ($484,572) Inspector General Questions New Anti-Gunrunning Teams ($10 million) Buffalo Residents Paid to Keep Daily Journal of Malt Liquor and Marijuana Use ($389,357) Oklahoma River Cruise Boats Get Transportation Funding ($1.8 million) Government Spends Money on Salaries and Overhead ($186 million) Repaved Georgia Road ... Getting Repaved Again ($88,000) Little-Used Bridge for Beachgoers Gets a Paint Job ($3.1 million) Federal Building With Uncertain Future Gets Huge Makeover ($117 million) Studying the Icelandic Arctic Environment in the Viking Age ($94,902) Bobber the Water Safety Dog Costumes ($21,116) Shakespearean Festivals ($225,000) 26.“Clown” Theatrical Production ($25,000) County Agency Mismanages Millions, Gets Millions More ($11.9 million) Free Rides on a Water Taxi to Relieve Downtown Congestion ($1.6 million) Studying the Learning Patterns of Honeybees ($210,000) Money for Exit Polling……in Africa ($233,825) Contemporary Art Sculpture: A Series of Giant Tubes ($13,000) Surf and Squat Rest Stop in Texas ($13.8 million) Study on "Hookup" Behavior of Female College Coeds ($219,000) Developing the Next Generation of Football Gloves ($150,000) Study of Wildflowers in a Ghost Town ($448,995) Jazz Festivals ($400,000) Another Golf Course Gets Recycled Water ($831,700) Recovering Crab Pots Lost At Sea ($700,000) New Hampshire Buys Buses It Doesn’t Need ($2 million) Martini Bar and Brazilian Steak House Remodeling ($100,000) Stimulus-Funded Workers with No Work ($3.2 million) States Spend Big Bucks on Stimulus Highway Signs ($1.3 million) Highway “Beautified” by Fish Art Fish Food ($50 million) Museum Dedicated to “Man’s Relationship With the Horse”($1.2 million) Pennsylvania Police Department Purchases Two Horses ($40,000) College Students Visit Costa Rica for Summer Studies ($564,635) Pennsylvania Paves Bike Lane on Deteriorating Local Road ($2 million) California Gets Money to Upgrade Computer System ... Twice ($60 million) Arizona Ants Work While Some Arizonans Remain Unemployed ($950,000) Study On Why Young Men Do Not Like Condoms ($221,355) Firm with Tax Fraud, Pollution History Wins Road Contract ($21.8 million) Agency with Habit of Losing Pricey Equipment Gets Funds for Major IT Upgrade ($85 million) Arkansas Teachers to Attend Education Conference ($413,124) Firm under Criminal Investigation Awarded Construction Contract ($6.4 million) Homeland Security Funds Assist Boat Tours of Alcatraz ($50,783) Money for Companies with a History of Environmental or Workplace Safety Penalties ($54 million) 58.“Math and Literacy Coaches” for North Carolina Teachers ($4.4 million) OSU Professor to Study Alaska Native Grandparents ($1.1 million) Town of 838 to Renovate Old Hotel into a Welcome Center ($300,000) Methamphetamines and the Female Rat Sex Drive ...($30,000) 62.... Study on Mice and Alcohol ($8,408) Locals Plan Bridge Funding, Feds Insist on Paying ($5 million) Wastewater Treatment Center with “Talking Water Gardens”($8 million) Obsolete Bridge Converted to Bike Path ($5.6 million) Youth Summer Jobs Program Fails to Put Kids to Work ($1.2 billion) Colorado Climbing Gym Gets Renewable Energy Grant for Solar Panels ($157,800) Colorado Dragon Boat Festival ($10,000) Low-Priority Airports Get Money from FAA ($272 million) Storytelling Festival in Utah ($15,000) Beautification of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip ($1.1 million) Half of Stimulus Contracts Not Competitively Bid Hollywood Entertainment Museum ($20,000) Controversial Helicopter Program Gets Stimulus Boost ($20,000) Contracts Awarded to Firms Suspended for Suspected Fraud ($30 million) Amtrak Loses $32 Per Passenger, Rewarded with Windfall ($1.3 billion) Fire Station without Firefighters ($2 million) Low Priority Waste Water Projects Getting Stimulus Funds ($47.8 million) Money for Lighthouse Repairs on Uninhabited Island (Nearly $1.5 million) College with Teachers “Unqualified to Teach in Their Fields” Receive Millions ($31.3 million) Brooklyn Slumlord Gets Share of Stimulus Funds ($270,000) Protecting against Carpet Beetles ($187,632) Indiana Sending Half of Weatherization Funds to Politically Active Builders Group ($66 million) Pedestrian Bridge Few Will Use ($80,000) Town Doesn’t Know What to Do With Money ($25,000) Dance Troupe to Weatherize Homes in Washington, D.C.($935,000) SBA Loan Program Expects 60 Percent Default Rate ($255 million) Removing Lead Paint from a Pedestrian Bridge ($3.5 million) School District Splurges on iPod Touches ($75,129) Global Warming Field Trip to Copenhagen for 11 Students ($49,818) Audit Finds Abuse of Tax Credit Program ($504 million) Ohio Town to Turn Railroad Crossings into “Quiet Zone”($800,000) Pennsylvania Winery Uses Stimulus Funds to Help Pay for Building Already under Construction ($25,000) Abandoned “Eyesore” Train Station to Get Green Renovation ($1.8 million) Despite Delays and Overruns, Space Telescope Gets Boost ($65 million) Museum Receives Geothermal Grant after Hosting Stimulus Signing Ceremony ($2.6 million) Money to Airport Authority Cited for Having Problems Managing Federal Money ($9.6 million) Bureaucratic Bungling Slows Homeless Prevention Grants in Nevada ($4.1 million) Learning to Cooperate by Observing Birds ($90,000) Climate-Controlled Water Taxis Get New Home ($750,000) Check out the Report: Summertime Blues 100 Stimulus Projects That Give Taxpayers the Blues https://www.scribd.com/document/35327297/Summertime-Blues-100-Stimulus-Projec

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Summertime Blues 100 Stimulus Projects That Give Taxpayers the Blues www.scribd.com

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