ARRA
Grants
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
$495,000
Green Job Political Ads on MSNBC
$24,000,000
Broadband Routers for Tiny Libraries and Schools in West Virginia
$35,000
Vending Machines for Books in California
$104,500,000
Harbor and Airport Construction for Town with no roads
Agriculture
Department Grants
$48,700
Hawaii Chocolate Festival
$100,000,000
Agency Charge Card Fraud
$2,000,000
Failed Intern Program
$49,900
Subsidy for Potato Chip Marketing
$10,000,000
Annual Cost Food Stamp ineligibility
$16,400,000
Annual Cost for Food Stamp Fraud
$99,000
Subsidy for Distillery Equipment in NY
$1,300,000
Subsidy to build PepsiCo Yogurt Factory in NY
$15,000
Subsidy for Arch in Oregon
$24,877
Idaho Gun Industry Promotion
$10,000,000,000
Food Stamps Not Used for Food
$100,000
Subsidy for Fruit Promotion in Indonesia
$6,900,000
Subsidy for Rubber Alternative Tire Company
$49,447
Subsidy for Smokey Bear Baloons
$75,000
Subsidy to promote Michigan Christmas Trees
$50,400
Subsidy to promote Oregon Cheese
$111,413
Subsidy for Beer Brewing Class in China
$9,490,000
Subsidy for Forest Management in Foreign countries
$62,000
Subsidy for Wine Conference in Colorado
$60,000
Survey of Tree Assets in Nevada
$181,966 Phone
App for Tennessee Produce
$93,000
Farmer’s Market Advertising in Oklahoma
$11,976,000
Duplicate Energy Subsidy
$55,000
Butter Packing Machine for Dairy
$14,970,000
Repair of Homes for Poor Families
$742,907
Unnecessary Research on Sheep Grazing for Weed Control
Commerce
Department Grants
$28,500,000
Rural Broadband Soap Opera Development
$1,000,000
Subsidies for Cell Phone App Creators
$2,000,000
Wine Exhibit in Washington State
$100,000
Video Game Subsidy in Massachusetts
Defense
Department Spending
$25,000,000
Duplicative Language and Culture Training
$5,000,000
Annual Cost of Veterans’ Affairs Conventions
$8,500,000
Algae Biofuel for $424 per gallon
$12,000,000
Green Fleet Biofuel at $27 per gallon
$700,000
Weapons Budget spent on developing Jerky
$24,450
Annual Coast Guard Marti Gras Floats
$551,474
Air Force Academy Stonehenge for Pagan Worship
Education
Department Grants
$1,000,000,000
Excess Bureaucracy in DOE
$3,100,000,000
Annual Cost for 209 Duplicative STEM Programs
Energy
Department Grants
$1,000,000,000
Energy Savings Tax Credit Fraud
$15,000,000
Annual Subsidy for Weapons Scientists in Russia
$100,000
Contest to Create a Phone App that already exists.
$500,000
Missing Green Manufacturing Equipment
$2,200,000
Occupancy Sensors for DOE Offices
$100,000,000
Duplication Cost for 14 Diesel Emissions Programs at Energy, EPA and DOT.
Health
& Human Services Grants
$6,600,000,000
Medicare Reimbursements to 7000 providers who owed $791,000,000 in unpaid
federal taxes $330,000,000 Annual Loss.
$106,000
Healthy Eating Video
$20,000,000,000
Medicaid Overpayments
$765,828
Subsidy to build IHOP in DC
Department
of Homeland Security Grants
$6,279
Snow Cone Machines for Emergencies in Michigan
$98,000
Unnecessary Underwater Rescue Robot for Columbus OH
$45,000,000
Failed Surveillance Camera System for Chicago wasn’t water tight
$285,993
Grant for Tank for NH Pumpkin Festival
Housing
& Urban Development Grants
$255,000
Grant for Cartoon School
$200,000,000
Total for $21,600,000 Annual Cost to Maintain Abandoned Katrina Damaged Homes
$484,000
Subsidy to build Pizza Restaurant
$206,426
Unneeded Grant Sold to another city in California
$3,400,000
Defaulted Loans made by City of Providence
$750,970
New Restaurant and Brewery in New Hampshire.
$505,000
Funds for Pet Shampoo Company in Nebraska
$1,000,000,000,
Annual Cost of Unused Office Space
$388,000
Bus Shelter with no Stop
$1,000,000
Design Costs for non-existent Homeless Shelter in Los Angeles
Interior
Department Grants
Unspecified
14 years of funding for a non-existent Fish Hatchery.
Department
of Justice Grants
$1,000,000,000
Courthouse in Los Angeles
$1,300,000
Unnecessary Copies of Prisoners’ X-rays
$500,000
Expensive Camera for Courtroom
Department
of Labor Grants
$20,000,000
Unemployment Paid to Millionaires
$4,600,000
Job Corp Contractor overpayment
$14,000,000,000
Unemployment Benefits Overpaid
State
Department Grants
Unspecified
7 programs in 3 agencies identify travel fraud
$100,000
Comedy Group sponsored to visit India
$770,000,000
To Repair Mosques overseas
$25,000
To Translate a Moldovan Love Ballad into English
$30,000
New York Dance Company sponsored to visit Indonesia
$306,000
To Train European Students to become political and environmental activists
Department
of Transportation Grants
$150,000
Annual Grant to abandoned Oklahoma air strip.
$142,419
Free Bus Rides for Super Bowl Attendees in Indianapolis
$529,689
Abandoned Historic House conversion to a Visitor’s Center.
$1,100,000
For 20 Block Sidewalk next to Highway too dangerous to use
$520,000
Ohio Bridge that is not connected to roads
$345,000
Iowa Bronze Statue of Mrs. Herbert Hoover
$3,700
West Virginia Lego Model of Historic Downtown
$800,000
Wisconsin Horse-Drawn Carriage Museum
$8,300,000
Annual Covered Bridge Restoration
$300,000
Missouri River, Railroad, Road Museum
$5,180,000
Louisiana Steamboat Museum
$221,540
Annual cost of Veteran’s Affairs Conference
$141,450
EPA Study of Pig Poop in China
$5,800
000 Projects on NY State owned Lake Champlain
$75,400,000
FEMA replacing buildings that only need repair
$4,800,000,000
Cost of Maintaining Duplicate Computer Systems
$2,000,000
Annual Cost of Maintaining inactive accounts.
$1,000,000,000
Annually for Lack of a Purchasing System
$12,500,000,000
Annual Cost to maintain vacant Federal Properties
$
Billions 94 Green Building Programs in 11 Agencies
$180 000
Annual Portrait Costs
Unspecified
180 Housing Assistance Programs are spread over 20 separate Agencies.
$10,000,000,000
Medicare overpayments
Unspecified
15 Duplicate Financial Literacy Programs
$1,900,000
DC City Worker overpayments
$8,000,000
Printing Excess Copies of the Congressional Record
$1,000,000
GSA Bonuses for Misconduct
$100,000
Annual GSA Palm Springs Conference
$823,000
Annual GSA Las Vegas Conference
$24,000,000 Annual Purchases of Obsolete Equipment
$1,500,000,000
Annual Cost of Cell Phone Fraud
JUSFC
$2,000,000
Annual Cost of maintaining the Japan-US Friendship Commission
Museums
$113,277
Video Game Museum
IRS
$1,000,000,000
Annual Bogus Tax Refund Payments
$4,200,000,000
Annual Child Care Tax Credit Fraud by Illegal Aliens.
$1,030,000,000
Unpaid Taxes Owed by Federal Employee
$3,900,000,000
Annual Cost of Identity Theft
$862,000
annual warehouse rental for excess office furniture
Election
Costs
$35,380,000
for Presidential Election party food, drink and decorations
Government
Loan Defaults
$150,000,000
Compact Power Battery bankruptcy
$70,000,000
Abound Solar bankruptcy
$41,000,000
Beacon Power Energy Storage bankruptcy
$118,000,000
Ener1 Electric Battery bankruptcy
$724,000
Mountain Plaza Truck Charger bankruptcy
$10,000,000
Olsen’s Mills failure
$156,000,000
Range Fuels bankruptcy
$535,000,000
Solyndra bankruptcy
$500,000
Spectrawatt bankruptcy
$6,500,000
Thompson River Power bankruptcy
$249,100,000,
A123 Systems bankruptcy
$5,300,000
Evergreen Solar bankruptcy
$98,500,000
Nevada Geothermal bankruptcy
$1,200,000,000
Sunpower Solar bankruptcy
$1,460,000,000
First Solar bankruptcy
$5,900,000
Amonix Solar bankruptcy
$126,200,000
Ecotality Electric Car Charger bankruptcy
$33,00,000
Raser Technologies
$13,300,000
Energy Conversion Devices Solar bankruptcy
$5,400,0000
Azure Electric Car converters bankruptcy
$500,000
GreenVolts Solar bankruptcy
$16,000,000
Nordic Windpower bankruptcy
$3,000,000
Satcon Solar Panel bankruptcy
$20,000,000 Konarka Solar Panel bankruptcy
$100,000,000 Mascoma to create 70 jobs that only created 3
jobs.
Law
Enforcement
$10,000
Recordings in Bathrooms in Bars warning about drunk driving.
National
Endowment for the Arts
$40,000
Develop Video Game based on Thoreau’s writings
$1,000,000
Annual Book Club Costs
National
Endowment for the Humanities
$498,000
Fund a Variety of Irrelevant Studies
$270,000
Digitize Periodicals already digitized
$24,995
Fund Course on what makes us Happy
$550,000
Fund Film showing how Rock Music ended the Cold War
NIH
Grants
$548,731
Do Heavy Drinking 30 year olds feel Immature
$666,905
Does Watching TV Reruns make people happy
$170,000
Hookah Smoking Habits of Jordanian College Students.
$356,913
How Cocaine enhances the Sex Drive of Japanese Quail.
$206,214
Develop “Organic Gardening” Video Game
$610,908
Fund Survey to Poll “Well-Being” in 120 countries.
NSF
Grants
$25,000
Can Twitter predict the Stock Market
$516,000
Funds Video Game “Prom Week” that simulates social reactions
$315,000
Does Playing “Farmville” on Facebook help people make friends.
$1,000,000
How Quickly do US Parents respond to trendy Baby Names
$2,000,000
Are Internet Picture Posters actually Friends
$604,755
Group Dynamics on EverQuest 2 Video Game
$755,546 How do Rumors get Started
$199,088
Do Turkish Women Wear Veils because they are Fashionable
$559,681
How Long Can Shrimp Run on a Treadmill
$476,000
Do People Lie in Text Messages
$150,000
Developing Trust in Avatars
$322,313
Antarctic Cultural Art Promotion
$325,000
How Rattlesnakes react to Robot Squirrel
$261,281
Social Impacts of Tourism in Norway
$500,000
Do Twitter Users use Regional Slang
$259,216
Best Time to Buy Sport Event Tickets
$78,998 Why
do Same Teams Dominate March Madness
$1,200,000
Should Grandparents Play World of Warcraft Video Game
$1,700,000,000
Unreturned Grant Funds
$144,152
NSA Employee Travel Fraud
$450,000
Contract Kickback Fraud
$14,200,000
Colorado Contractor Fraud
$547,430
Create Dancing Robot for Cellphones
$697,777
Fund Musical About Climate Change
$1.300,000 Study Cell-Phone User Experience
$350,000
Golfers Envisioning Bigger Holes
$500,000
Create On-Line Lawyer Training Course
$149,990
Create “RapidGuppy” Game for Cellphones
$764,825
How College Students use Social Networking
$300,000
Find Origins of Matter through Dance
$500,000
Analyzing Your Public Image
$425,642
Improving Local Government in India
$198,195
Does Social Media produce Happiness
$338,998
Weaving Study in Iceland
NOAA
$300,787
Party Yacht
SBA
$2,000,000
Loans for Failed Cupcake Shops
Social
Security
$120,000,000
Payments to Dead People
Transportation
$600,000,000
Federal Fleet Excess
US Postal
Service
$349,317
Government Travel Card Fraud
USAID
$27,000,000
Moroccan Pottery Classes
$20,000,000
Remake Sesame Street for Pakistan
$12,000,000
Failed Irrigation Pumps in Pakistan
$1,350,000
Entrepreneurship Training in Barbados
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