And You Thought You Government Was Wasting Money

The items below are real projects paid for by the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.(Stimulus Bill)

$6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.
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$30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.
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$219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.
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$173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.
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$1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.
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$1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.
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$20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.
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$1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.
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$9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.
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$800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstow, Pa.,serving about 20 passengers per day.
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$11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.
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$3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.
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$1.3M on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.

I'm just glad the money didn't go to waste like helping the unemployed or homeless.