Guess Where Your Tax $$s are Going!!!!!

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I think some of this stuff will upset you too.

 

The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:-

$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.-
$30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.-
$11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.-
$430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.-
$800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.-
$219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.-
$2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.-
$3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.-
$1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.-
$2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.-
$6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.-
$173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.-
$20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.-
$380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.-
$300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.-
$1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.-
$1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.-
$356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.-
$983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.-
$148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.-
$462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri-
$3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.-
$1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including
$30,000 for basket makers,
$20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.-
$71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle's energy efficiency.-
 $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.
Sources: News reports, Office of the Senate Minority Leader, Office of Sen. Tom Coburn Read more at the Washington Examiner: