* The city of Las Vegas has received a $5.2 million federal grant to build the Neon Boneyard Park and Museum, including $1.8 million in 2010. For over the last decade, Museum supporters have gathered and displayed over 150 old Las Vegas neon signs, such as the Golden Nugget and Silver Slipper casinos.
* The National Science Foundation provided more than to $200,000 to study of why political candidates make vague statements.
* The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to maintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal monkey house in Dayton, Ohio.
* Medicare paid out over $35 million to a vast network of 118 phantom medical clinics, allegedly established by members of a criminal gang to submit phony reimbursement claims.
* The Government Printing Office (GPO) is using a video game space mouse (and nearly $60,000 in taxpayer funds) to teach children the history of printing.
* In July, nearly half a million taxpayer dollars 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 Internal Revenue Service paid out $112 million in undeserved tax refunds to prisoners who filed fraudulent returns, according to the Treasury Departments Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
* The National Science Foundation directed nearly a quarter million dollars to a Stanford University professors study of how Americans use the Internet to find love.
* The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) took the term cold case to a new level in 2010. The agency spent over $20,000 in taxpayer money to unravel the anonymity of a 2,500-year-old mummy.
* The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent nearly $442,340 million to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social setting.
* This year, taxpayers forked over $60,000 for the first-of-its kind promotion of the Vidalia onion in conjunction with the movie, Shrek Forever After.
* The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded over $600,000 to the Minnesota Zoo to create a wolf avatar video game called WolfQuest.
* A $700,000 federal grant paid for researchers to examine greenhouse gas emission from organic dairies, which are cause by cow burps, among other things.
You can read Wastebook 2010 in its entirety here.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: Coburn report details most outrageous ways government wasted tax dollars in 2010 | Washington Examiner
* The National Science Foundation provided more than to $200,000 to study of why political candidates make vague statements.
* The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to maintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal monkey house in Dayton, Ohio.
* Medicare paid out over $35 million to a vast network of 118 phantom medical clinics, allegedly established by members of a criminal gang to submit phony reimbursement claims.
* The Government Printing Office (GPO) is using a video game space mouse (and nearly $60,000 in taxpayer funds) to teach children the history of printing.
* In July, nearly half a million taxpayer dollars 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 Internal Revenue Service paid out $112 million in undeserved tax refunds to prisoners who filed fraudulent returns, according to the Treasury Departments Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
* The National Science Foundation directed nearly a quarter million dollars to a Stanford University professors study of how Americans use the Internet to find love.
* The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) took the term cold case to a new level in 2010. The agency spent over $20,000 in taxpayer money to unravel the anonymity of a 2,500-year-old mummy.
* The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent nearly $442,340 million to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social setting.
* This year, taxpayers forked over $60,000 for the first-of-its kind promotion of the Vidalia onion in conjunction with the movie, Shrek Forever After.
* The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded over $600,000 to the Minnesota Zoo to create a wolf avatar video game called WolfQuest.
* A $700,000 federal grant paid for researchers to examine greenhouse gas emission from organic dairies, which are cause by cow burps, among other things.
You can read Wastebook 2010 in its entirety here.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: Coburn report details most outrageous ways government wasted tax dollars in 2010 | Washington Examiner