The wide, weird world of stimulus

Here's another cool place where stimulus money is going: The General Service Administration's Public Buildings Service bought a reach-in freezer for the cafeteria at the Robert J. Dole Courthouse in Kansas City, Kan., for $2,655.

Why do courthouse employees' frozen appetites need to be stimulated?

"We received Recovery Act funds to improve the whole building, and we planned to replace all of the building's equipment with Energy Star equipment," said Charlie Cook, spokesman for the GSA. "As we were repairing the building, the existing freezer stopped working."

"We were going to spend money on a new freezer eventually anyway, so we just bought it earlier than planned," Cook added.

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