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0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2001

Squandering a million on mood rings and incense Government continues to find ways to whack taxpayers with wildly wasteful expenditures of their dollars, and here is yet another example. It would be laughable it wasn't so ludicrous. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development spent $1.1 million to boost the self-esteem of public housing residents by counseling them on what kind of gemstones they should select to give themselves a spiritual lift.

Really. And that's not all. Residents also were told of certain incenses they should burn to ease stress. Trainers in the so-called Creative Wellness Program further recommended that certain clothing of a certain color should be worn. The overall aim of the program was to reduce violent crime and the...