How would you spend $787 billion in government money?
Probably not like this.
Unfortunately, the details of the stimulus package had many states' hands tied - their funds had to be allotted to certain types of projects, or they wouldn't get any of it.
On those terms, these states did what any of us would do: they took the money and ran with it.
Yes, any form of stimulus spending helps by creating jobs and injecting money into the economy... but some of these are pretty ridiculous.
Senator Tom Coburn outlined the worst offenders in his report, "100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion;" here are our favorites from his list.
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Goldman bankers are now buying pistols to protect themselves against enraged public.
Don't be fooled by the Black Friday jubilation. We may be looking at one of the worst years of all time.
It's the biggest email gaffe ever! Two cheating lovebirds at Cornell's Johnson School of Business CC'd the entire business school.
Uh oh: John Hussman puts the odds of a new market crash at 80%.
Get ready for a brutal 2010. Why? Because this is what happens when GDP perks up and money gets tight!
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