Hard earned tax dollars gurgle down the drain ... courtesy your elected officers

Happy ?

$5,000 from city taxes on a haiku poetry-writing contest about the joys of riding the bus;
Former head of the public transit commission blew $2,400 on taxi chits;
City council spent $1.3 million of tax dollars to try get a Michael Jackson tribute concert to come to their town;
Thousands of dollars spent building a “fake lake” ;
$85,000 spent on  glow sticks;
$300,000 for sunscreen and bug spray and;
$17,000 for golf shirts.

Sweet !!!     Everybody and his uncle are so generous when it comes to spending other people's money.