To study the effect of diet and exercise on obesity

To construct a new guardrail around a totally dry lake

To re-hire a contractor that was already fired for shoddy work on the exact same job

To address homelessness in a small Pennsylvania town that has no homeless problem

To continue building a low emission coal plant that the Department of Energy scrapped last year due due to inefficiency

To create a "train-horn-free" zone in a small Oregon town

To repave a back-up runway at an airport that has fewer than 10,000 passengers a year

To pay ineligible prison inmates who can't even use the money to stimulate the economy

To buy more cars for an Iowa bureaucracy when 4 dozen already sit unused in a parking lot

To buy road signs that have no purpose other than to tell you that the Government is spending your money