Ink Removal: In 2002, California congresswoman Lois Capps successfully petitioned the Department of Justice for a $50,000 subsidy to spend on a tattoo-removal program in her home district of San Luis Obispo.
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Feting farseeing groundhogs: The Wiarton Groundhog Day Festival was invented by some residents of the small town of Wiarton, Ontario, in 1956 to help out a journalist who had come to town, spent his money drinking with locals, and needed a story to justify his expenses. [...] In 2000, the Canadian government subsidized the town with a $50,000 federal grant to fund the yearly festival.
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Ragin’ 3-year-olds: In 2003, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin managed to get a $250,000 subsidy from the federal government to implement the National Preschool Anger Management Project. [...] The subsidized program is aimed at those children who are living in high-risk environments, wherever in Iowa that may be.
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Turning tricks to scrubs: The German government came up with a novel idea to solve the problem of mounting vacancies for nursing positions in the national health care system; fill the void by retraining longtime prostitutes and sex trade workers as nurses. German nursing and labor officials reasoned that those who had worked in the sex industry already possessed many of the skills necessary to excel in health care, including good people skills, strong stomachs for unpleasant sights and smells and little fear of contact. This retraining scheme is being financed with more than $1.3 million.
Hmmm…. Wonder if I could get a subsidy for bloggers who develop the newly discovered (by me) medical horrors Cramped Keyboard Finger Syndrome and Web Induced Squinty Eyes?
