Top 10 Porkiest Projects in the Stimulus Bill

[Timothy W.]

Yes....these are completely real and were in the stimulus bill. I am not kidding. Here's the "Change" that was voted into office.


10. $1.7 million "for a honey bee factory" in Weslaco, TX

9. $475,000 to build a parking garage in Provo City, Utah

8. $200,000 for a tattoo removal violence outreach program that could help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past

7. $300,000 for the Montana World Trade Center

6. $1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah

5. $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi

4. $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York

3. $332,000 for the design and construction of a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas

2. $2 million “for the promotion of astronomy†in Hawaii

1. $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa


The irony of #1 cannot be faked......