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» posted on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 9:00 am by Warner Todd Huston

 

Obama Says Stimulus Worked, Created Jobs… Here’s a Reminder of the Waste

In his recent trip to Racine, Wisconsin, President Obama claimed that his stimulus policies worked and “saved jobs.” He also said that his policies staved off another Great Depression. But lets take a look at some of the graft, waste and pointless, useless, wild-eyed spending that was in his so-called stimulus.

  1. $5 million to create a geothermal energy system for a shopping mall in Tennessee. The mall is over half empty of tenants and has had falling shopper attendance for years
  2. $1.57 million to Penn State University study fossils in Argentina
  3. $100,000 to a puppet theater in Minnesota
  4. $2 million to build a replica railroad tourist trap in Carson City, Nev.
  5. A boat cruise company in Chicago got almost $1 million to “combat terrorism”
  6. $500,000 went to Ariz. State Univ. to study ant genetics
  7. Another $450,000 went to Uinv. of Arizona to study ants
  8. Almost $400,000 went to Univ. of New York to pay students to drink beer and smoke marijuana for a study there
  9. $219,000 to the Nat’l Institute of Health to study if young people “hook-up” after getting drunk
  10. $210,000 to the Univ. of Hawaii to study bees
  11. $700,000 to crab fishermen in Oregon to pay for lost crab pots
  12. $5,000 a person tax rebate if you buy a new electric golf cart (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Up to $1 million went to prisoners in $250 stimulus checks (FoxNews)
  14. $54 mil to a New York Indian tribe to run its casino (New York Post)
  15. $1 billion for a power plant in Mattoon, Illinois that is based on speculative science and may not even work
  16. $15 million to back-road bridges that get little traffic in Wisconsin
  17. $800,000 for a practically unused airport in Pennsylvania
  18. $3.4 million for an animal walk way under a road in Florida
  19. $1.15 million to install a guard rail for a lake that doesn’t even exist in Oklahoma
  20. $10 million to renovate a rail station that has stood unused for a decade
  21. $578,000 to battle homelessness in Union, New York even though the town says they have no homeless people there
  22. $233,000 to the Univ. of Calif. to study why Africans vote… in Africa
  23. $2 million to build a new fire house in a Nevada town that has no firemen
  24. North Carolina schools got $4.4 million for literacy and math coaches… to teach their teachers!
  25. $54 million for a railroad project in Napa Valley went to a minority-owned company that then hired a local construction company for half the price, pocketing the rest
  26. A California company was given $15 million in stimulus money to monitor water quality in a stream it was under indictment for polluting previously

Well, obviously this is just a tiny list of the graft, waste, and useless spending in Obama’s so-called stimulus bill but it serves to illustrate the fact that stimulating the economy was far from the minds of those congressmen that voted for the bill. It was more about paying off constituents than stimulating the economy.

 

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» posted on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 3:10 pm by Warner Todd Huston

 

Gov’t Waste: $250,000 For Green Roof For DuPage County Bldg

It’s stimulus, dontcha know? It’s gonna help us all, ya see? It’ll save the economy, of course. What is it? It’s $250,000 of wasted federal money going to plant some pretty foliage on top of the DuPage County, Illinois Administrative building to erect a “green roof” there.

That’s right, Illinois, your federal tax dollars are being wasted to plant some weeds on top of the DuPage County government building, plants that are supposed to save the county money in energy bills. Well, in about 20 or 30 years, that might actually be true when factoring in the $250,000 initial price tag.

Of course, one can easily assume that the DuPage County facility will have been torn down and a new boondoggle of a government building program will be stated to replace it long before that 30 years is up, right? In other words, the energy savings that might occur some 30 years from now will not likely be realized.

But, is it stimulus? Will it help anyone? Not really. This is money going to government from government. It is not money going to the private sector so that it can do something that will earn a return on investment. This helps no one but simply adds more tax money spent on more government.

And we all know that the most likely outcome of this whole “green roof” project will be a whole cadre off union louts hired to hold a rake or a watering hose for 7 hours a day, a cadre that will then retire at 50 with $50,000 a year pensions all paid courtesy of the Illinois tax payer.

Thank you Big Government Obama.

 

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