Michael Lissack • $150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud. • $6 million to repair tracks owned by the Soo Railroad Line. • $320,000 to purchase President McKinley's mother in-law's house. • $500,000 to rehabilitate the South Carolina mansion of Charles Pickney, a Framer of the Constitution. Unfortunately, the house was built after he died.
• $2.7 million for a catfish farm in Arkansas. • $84,000 to find out why people fall in love.
• $1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to work. • $19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence. • $3 million for private parking garages in Chicago. • $1.8 million for topographic maps of two parishes in Louisiana. • $144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws. • $250,000 to study the cause of rudeness on tennis courts. • $209,000 to examine smiling patterns in bowling alleys. • $219,000 to teach college students how to watch television. • $500,000 to build a replica of the Great Pyramid of Egypt in Indiana. • $850,000 for a bicycle path in Macomb County, Michigan. • $10 million for an access ramp in a privately owned stadium in Milwaukee. • $1.8 million for an engineering study to convert Biscayne Boulevard in Miami into an exotic garden. Of course while spending money on the above the government has neglected the vast investment necessary to build and maintain the nation's public works, the wastewater treatment plants, drinking water plants, solid waste facilities and transportation facilities that have allowed America to prosper. State and local governments have been forced to pick up ever big- ger portions of the bill. Not only has the federal government reduced its spending on the nation's deteriorating public works, but by diverting trust funds established to support infrastructure construction and maintenance, it also has broken a promise. Special trust funds paid for by taxes on gasoline
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