Coburn Report On The Not So Waste-Free "Stimulus"

Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:53 AM

Sen. Tom Coburn's report detailing 100 "stimulus" projects, programs and missteps that are costing taxpayers has been released this morning. Here's the top ten list of wasteful programs according to Coburn's office:

$1.5 million in “free” stimulus money for a new wastewater treatment plant results in higher utility costs for residents of Perkins, Oklahoma.
$1 billion for FutureGen in Mattoon, Illinois is the “biggest earmark of all time” for a power plant that may never work.
$15 million for “shovel-ready” repairs to little-used bridges in rural Wisconsin are given priority over widely used bridges that are structurally deficient.
$800,000 for little-used John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the ‘Airport for Nobody’ Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer dollars.
$3.4 million for a wildlife “eco-passage” in Florida to take animals safely under a busy roadway.
Nevada non-profit gets $2 million weatherization contract after recently being fired for same type of work.
$1.15 million for installation of a new guard rail for the non-existent Optima Lake in Oklahoma.
Nearly $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn’t been used in 30 years.
10,000 dead people get stimulus checks, but the Social Security Administration blames a tough deadline.
Town of Union, New York, encouraged to spend a $578,000 grant it did not request for a homelessness problem it claims it does not have.

Click here for the full report.

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