12 Incredible Examples of Government Waste

12 Incredible Examples of Government Waste

October 15, 2012

Pet Shampoo: $505,000

Sergeant's Pet Care Products, a company with $140 million in revenue, received half a million dollars in Community Development Block Grants provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The money was for capital improvements, like buying machinery to make pet toothpaste and shampoo. Woof!

<p>Sergeant's Pet Care Products, a company with $140 million in revenue, received half a million dollars in Community Development Block Grants provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The money was for capital improvements, like buyiprevnext

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$638,910 on sending coal to military bases in Germany

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