WOW! What a huge waste of money. Guard rails for an empty lake? over $400k for a scarcely used bridge? $2.2million for skylights? $150k for road signs? Who elects these morons? THIS is what is wrong with America today. Idiots like these are put into office.

Next you're going to tell me that welfare is given to people that don't deserve it...oh wait...it already is.

American politics=FAIL!

The river is deep and the river is wide, hallelujah
Milk and honey on the other side, hallelujah
Obama row the boat ashore, hallelujah
Obama row the boat ashore, hallelujah

Wait, how far did he say that shore was? Anyone know!

There is always some projects that make you wonder if the Congress left their brains home the day they approved the inclusion of them in the bill. Of the ones you listed I think the most ironic one (the one that makes you go HUH?) is the one where they are using 150K to post signs at construction sites to let people know that the construction is not financed by the stimulus bill.

In looking at the bigger document I didn't find any for my state (Alabama) but I did look at the rest of the ones for TN and there is one I think that should NOT be included – the one where the SC Department of Natural Resources will use 1.7 million to grow oysters. To do this they have to restore the reefs which are getting decimated by climate change, overfishing, and development. Reefs provide a habitat for many sea creatures that are in our direct food chain; also reefs help slow down and lessen the impact of storm surge from a bad storm. The project that will use 2.5 million to study beach restoration may in the end lead to better ways to conserve our beaches so that they are not lost through beach erosion. The rest of the allocations for the South seem dubious at best.

I don't think its stimulus money but this 4th of july fireworks show in mason, ohio is spending a little under $350,000. I feel they should use that money for roads or getting solar panels for the state of the art waste of a high school that never should have been built. You have to see it to believe it.

So much for Obama getting rid of all the PORK-PROJECTS,once he was in office. Another campaign promise broken.

It is so ironic that stimulus money is being spent on signs that are advertising projects that are being funded by stimulus money just so people can know what the stimulus money is being spent on when people do not need signs to know what the stimulus money is being spent on. (Gotta love English)

In response to the news article on the turtle crossing in Florida, what happened to "Planet in Peril"? While it may not seem important to an out of work auto worker in Detroit, this is the same attitude that builds a highway across a turtle migration route, hunts wales for "scientific research" and burns the rain forest. I am by no means a Sierra Club member and differ from them on many issues but a few million dollars to protect species as benign as turtles seems a pittance compared to the amounts our government wastes by the minute. Bread and circuses have been updated by big screen TVs and SUVs. Would you prefer the stimulus package just stick to direct payments to the American public?