Recession? NOT FOR GOVERNMENT PORK!
Senator Tom Coburn has just released his government pork report, here are some highlights…
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$188,000 for Lobster Institute in Maine, home of the “LobsterCam”
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$1 million for bike paths on Louisiana levees while levees await basic repairs
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$2.4 million for a retractable shade canopy at a park in West Virginia
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$24.6 million for the National Park Service’s 100th year birthday in 2016 – 8 years early
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$3.2 million on a blimp the Pentagon does not want
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$367,000 wasted by a Texas school board on items like an inflatable alligator and under-the-sea waterslide, among other things
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$5 million for a bridge to a zoo parking lot in St. Louis
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$9,000 for a non-functioning airplane-shaped gas station in Tennessee
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$300,000 for specialty potatoes for high-end restaurants
