Today on the news, there was a story about NY's Gov. Paterson rescinding the cuts he said he was going to make on public school expenditures because of stimulus money NY was receiving. So no public employee school teacher in NY will lose his of her job after all. All those unemployed we are hearing about on the radio are apparently only people who weren't working for one government agency or another. When they figure this out, it might not be safe to be a government employee.
ML/NJ
going into full on spending-orgasm mode there too, eh?
Let’s call a spade a spade - all these towns and cities are Democrat strongholds, largely low income, and non-white.
This is racism pure and simple.
I live in NJ but in the Western suburbs. The only homeless we have are the people they put into COAH housing (affordable). They were most of the foreclosures too.
Now the towns and townships own the COAH houses because of unpaid taxes, and can’t sell them to anyone but qualified low income buyers who will be getting support now I suppose to move back in.
What a crazy deal. The Star Ledger is the leading liberal paper in NJ. The Courier News is worse, so I don’t read either.
And it’s all being done with borrowed money, or worse still money that will be printed just for the occasion.
And sadly, most of the projects will never accomplish what was intended. Government does not have the ability to do anything and do it both right and economically.
My favorite example is a couple of projects here in Tampa several years ago. They were building a multi-screen movie complex on corner of a busy street and a new fire station right across the street. People were eating popcorn and enjoying movies TWO YEARS before the first alarm was answered from the new station. And the two projects were worlds apart in size and complexity. Even so the profit-driven movie complex was finished two years before the fire station. Then someone realized there were plans on the board to widen the busy street and they had to tear down the fire station and build a new one!
All this stimulus pork will end up in the same place all pork does. In the pockets of those who slop at the public trough. A mere pittance will make it down to those who are the stated targets of the pork, maybe, but most of it will just line the pockets of those who make their living by helping the poor.
There - fixed it.
I read last week that Office Depot’s stock was dropping.
Might be a good time to buy in.
They’ll be one of the biggest suppliers for the recipients.
Gov. bureaucracy will need paper for reports, pens and pads and post-its for meetings, folders for files, paper clips, styrofoam coffee cups, filters, chairs.
We’re building the shining city on the hill, out of paper.
The old Soviet Russia had programs like these. They were ALL total failures. Especially the housing projects with community toilets, bare bulb light fixtures and peeling plaster walls. Ask anyone who lived there at the time...5 and 6 to a room. As for the roads..few had cars and you couldn’t leave town without a pass anyway.