Have you seen where your stimulus dollars are going?

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.



How's that 'hope %26amp; change" working out for you?Have you seen where your stimulus dollars are going?
Yes and it looks like most of it is being flushed down the 22 concrete toilets! What a scam, congress and 0bama have nothing but contempt for the taxpayer! Thank s for posting this!
It's a PORK-U-LUS bill. 0bama said he would keep PORK out of Congressional bills. And, TARDS believed him.Have you seen where your stimulus dollars are going?
Thank you for bringing to light the continued incompetence of this administration. What a bunch of morons we have in D.C.!
i like the radioactive rabbits the best..lol



what a waste of money.



I live in Australia, and we have have had a massive infrastructure stimulus package, over the last 6 months or whatever, 1 out of 10 rods have been relaid, all over my uni stuff is getting built, my old high school is getting upgraded. I think that makes more senceHave you seen where your stimulus dollars are going?
I volunteer to help Syracuse University in its study off the sex lives of freshmen women. And do it for free as my patriotic duty.........
Most of these projects provided jobs for people like the bike racks that was a lot of labor that was paid to families I could make a longer list of money wasted in Iraq were the American labor force got nothing. But I did see Interstate 81 and other interstate highways in Virginia get a big needed upgrade where all kinds of people and equiptment were used and money circulated and children got new shoes out of the deal because Obama gave these working Americans, White, Black Hispanics ect ect a job instead of spending trillions in Iraq.
That is pretty disturbing. A source where you got this info would be great. Not that I'm questioning it.
And we thought Am track and the USPS were money pits that keep increasing wasteful spending and now this is just vomitous blatant irrational spending. When inflation hits for this incomprehensible wasteful spending will anyone ever make the government responsible to pay for this idiocy? Obama is a liar!
That money that went to Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen coeds sounds kinda hot. How do I sign up to help conduct that study?



Also Joe Biden went to law school at Syracuse, is this a coincidence or not?