Here's some examples for you...
The Heritage Foundation published a good article on Government waste spending back in 2009. I think it's worth a read.
In it you can find out how the governement spent $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job.
You can also see about how the Federal Communications Commission spent $350,000 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.
How about Congress giving Alaska Airlines $500,000 to paint a Chinook salmon on a Boeing 737?
$1.8 million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia?
On and on and on and on....
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/10/50-examples-of-government-waste
please find a source that isn't a right-wing think tank TIA