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Old 07-29-2007, 10:56 AM   #1
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5 of the largest, oddest and most useless state projects

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayof...cts/index.html

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Millions of dollars spent on useless, failed or cancelled projects

Building Teton dam took four years; collapse took one afternoon

$12 billion superconductor in Texas was never finished
These are something.
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Old 07-30-2007, 06:52 AM   #2
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The idea with cutting Florida in half is ridicules. Don't Florida have enough problems.
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Why isn't Head Start on the list? How many billions have we wasted on that?
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How about the billions spend on levees in New Orleans pre-Katrina that lasted hours?
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