The Waste List > Total Value of Government Waste: $57,322,568,479
Bizarre and wasteful “academic” summer studies  - $498,000

The National Endowment for the Humanities is spending $500,000 on irrelevant and bizarre “academic studies,” such as studies on “Priests and Concubines” and the television show M*A*S*H.


Source: Wastebook 2012, Office of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)