- $200,000 for a deer avoidance system in Weedsport, N.Y.
- $330 million for a highway in Bakersfield, Calif.
- $480,000 to rehabilitate a historic warehouse on the Erie Canal.
- $3 million for dust control mitigation on Arkansas rural roads.
- $2.3 million for landscaping on the Ronald Reagan Freeway in California.
The worst perpetrator of all, as always, was Alaska, which means "the land of government waste" in the Inuit Language. The third-least populated state received $941 million - the fourth most in earmarks - courtesy of its lone representative, Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young. $231 million of it was for a bridge near Anchorage to be named "Don Young's Way."
Even worse, Congress is hiding how much it actually spent behind some accounting tricks that would make Enron proud. So much for fiscal conservatism.
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Historic preservation can be a good use of public funds. Our society is quick to tear-down historic buildings and communities to build McMansions, housing developments and office parks. I certainly hope, however, that an Erie Canal preservation organization is contributing indivual and private funds as well. $480,000 is really pennies! You can barely buy a single family house in DC for that amount.
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