Top 15 Worst Stimulus Abuses

When President Obama signed the $831 billion stimulus in to law in 2009, he stated that “tough choices and smart investments” needed to be made. “The American people expect action,” he said, but all we’ve seen is continuously high unemployment rates and millions of dollars pumped into wasteful projects.

Four years later, do you think these are the types of actions that hard-working American families expected?

15. $250 sent to a woman in Maryland who died in 1967

(Geni Blog)

14. $840 spent to dissemble and assemble three desks

 (Stock photo) 

13. The Lincoln Center in New York City was paid to host a “tango salon”

(AFP/Juan Mabromata)

12. $10,000 spent replacing light fixtures at a fish hatchery

 (recovery.doi.gov) 

11. $425,000 spent in $250 increments to 1,700 prison inmates for social security checks

(Red Swimmer)

10. $426,000 to rebuild a bridge that is used by an average of ten cars a day

(Flickr) 

9. $500,000 spent in subsidies for rain barrel installation

(Green American)

8. $600,000 sent to a school district in Kansas…except the district no longer exists

(Alamy)

7. $1 million spent in New York on road signs advertising stimulus projects

(Frank Ordonez/The Post) 

6. $1 million used to build 250 bike lockers

(UTA Transport)

5. $1.25 million to use electric fish to study animal sensory information 

(Science News)

4. $1.75 million spent on energy-efficient garage doors

(Schalco Garage Doors) 

3. $2.2 million spent to install skylights for a liquor store in Montana

 (Glacier Distilling) 

2. $2.8 million spent installing toilets in New Mexico’s national forests

(Stock photo) 

1. $15 million spent to build an airport in Ouizinkie, Alaska…a town of 165 people

(Bradley Zint photography)