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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is obvious the poster was talking about electing politicians who will make smart decisions with federal tax dollars.  At no time did the poster make reference to individuals and their decisions with their finances.  This country is in a severe debt crisis and yet Washington spends indiscriminately.  Unless we are all vested in making sure our money (and yes our tax dollars are our money) is used wisely, it is only going to get worse.  In any event, that is my take on the post.[/quote]

I agree. I think the stimulus was needed, but too much of it went to absolutely unneeded (and unwanted) pork barrel projects.  I don't blame Obama - I blame the individual Senators and Congressmen who advocated for their friends and donors. I have no idea who works at the various departments that approves the most idiotic ideas.

The Interior Department gave Las Vegas $5.2 million to build the Neon Boneyard Park and Museum, which houses old neon signs casinos no longer use.

The Department of Agriculture gave the University of New Hampshire $700,000 to examine cow burps and flatulence.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services gave $615,000 to digitize Grateful Dead photographs, tickets, backstage passes, fliers, shirts, and other memorabilia because band members wanted that stuff to be free and public. By the way, the estate of band member Jerry Garcia is worth $40 million and Phil Lesh is worth $35 million.

More than $3 million in federal taxpayer money went to researchers at the University of California at Irvine so they can play video games such as World of Warcraft.

Nearly $1 million was spent on poetry in the Little Rock, Ark., New Orleans, Milwaukee and Chicago zoos to help raise awareness of environmental issues.

The California Academy of Sciences received $1.9 million in federal stimulus money to send researchers to Indian Ocean islands and east Africa, to capture, photograph, and analyze thousands of exotic ants for placement on the website AntWeb.org.

The Bureau of Land Management allocated $64 million for a huge, 2,900-acre firing range near Las Vegas. Last year, the park had $430,000 in revenues but cost $1.3 million to operate. The county, to make up the difference, spent $1 million from a fund to maintain swimming pools and, because of that, had to close at least one swimming pool during the summer.

The Government Printing Office spent $58,850 to publish a comic book of a space mouse to teach children the history of printing. Even if it sold all 5,500 copies, it stood to lose $31,350.

In July 2010, nearly half a million dollars in taxpayer money went to the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where wine tasting and castle tours were among the events planned for the conference participants.

The Department of Health and Human Services gave researchers at Wake Forest University $144,541 of stimulus money to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine. It’s not clear how that was supposed to stimulate the economy.

http://thinkfree.freedomblogging.com/2011/08/06/u-s-clearly-has-a-spending-problem-not-a-revenue-problem/4653/

Sometimes I wonder if I could get $1M to open up a museum of dirty diapers. It's important for future generations to understand the dilemna moms are going through today on whether to use cloth or disposable, and if disposable, do they use expensive but supposedly eart friendly one or cheap regular ones?
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To set the record straight, that is a list of spending projects but it's not a list of stimulus projects.[/quote]

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