Pork Report November 3rd: Merry-Go-Round Edition

Merry-Go-Round Museum receives federal funds

Federal funds pay to put on a ghostly journey to the most haunted places in Illinois

The shopping mall to nowhere; $5 million stimulus grant to heat an “almost-empty mall”

Stimulus grant pays to keep tabs on how often doctors and nurses wash their hands at hospitals in Maryland

Agency that misspent public funds on a casino junket and $700 worth of coffee and lost a child on a field trip slated to receive $159,000 in stimulus funds

Stimulus saves or creates jobs for illegal aliens; Company that the federal government knew was intentionally hiring hundreds of illegal immigrants awarded $6.7 million in federal contracts–including nearly $1million in stimulus money–during the past year

Many of the jobs counted as being “saved” by the federal stimulus program “definitely wouldn’t have been lost in the first place, and others might not have been lost at all”

Nearly 10,000 employees who received pay increases being counted as jobs “saved” by the stimulus; “If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” explains government spokesman

New federal web site designed to track stimulus payments to the states is “a mess,” says official

National debt to exceed $12 trillion within the next month

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