Pork Report, December 8, 2009: Downhill Edition

Alaska’s $680 million bridge to nowhere still a state priority

17,000 Medicaid patients put on waiting lists for medical services in Maryland as the state misspends $98 million including paying for services for dead people

Medicare loses $60 billion to fraud every year

Democrat political consultants receive millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds; Millions more spent to heat a near-empty shopping mall, to search for fossils in Argentina, for socially conscious puppet shows, and to study the genetic makeup of ants

Restaurant with a long record of not paying its taxes receives $143,988 in federal and state funds for renovations, including a “spiffed up” facade and a “striking awning”

Federal dollars hit the slopes: National Science Foundation funds research on how to design skis

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