Blog: Miccosukee Tribe used stimulus grant for 'gator wrestling

Friday, August 12, 2011  

"I realize that pointing out a ridiculous stimulus expenditure is so 2009. Still, I can’t help but mention one overlooked, but completely outrageous, stimulus scheme.

You, as an American taxpayer, paid for a teenage kid to wrestle alligators.

No kidding.

The Miccosukee Corporation, the business arm of the Miccosukee Indian Tribe, pocketed a $20,785 stimulus handout to subsidize a summer youth employment program. The program hired five kids to perform jobs including cashier, handyman and alligator wrestler at the Tribe’s Miccosukee Indian Village."

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Drew Johnson: Stimulus Dollars Snapped Up to Fund Teen Alligator Wrestlers ‎ (Big Government 8/11)