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Stimulus road signs in Pennsylvania cost $60,000
Morning Call ^
| 7/17/2009
| Josh Drobnyk
Posted on 07/17/2009 11:05:10 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending $60,000 of its stimulus money on $2,000 road signs to highlight projects funded by the massive economic recovery package.
The large green signs mark about 30 of what PennDOT calls ''higher visibility projects'' statewide. Each denotes the project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and features the act's logo.
Nationwide, several million dollars are being spent producing the signs.
PennDOT spokesman Steve Chizmar said Pennsylvania elected to take a ''middle-of-the-road'' approach to the federal government's strong encouragement that the signs be put at every project site around the state, choosing only those that were most visible to the public. The stimulus package is pumping $1 billion into the state for hundreds of road and bridge repairs.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: baboonbuttrendell; corruption; fasteddie; fateddie; pa; sos; stimulus
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To: Red in Blue PA
$2000 per sign.
Reminiscent of the $500 toilet seat.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:05:47 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Red in Blue PA
Each denotes the project is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and features the act's logo. A dollar sign and a toilet?
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:06:43 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(As a child Obama was rejected from Little League because of lack of a birth certificate.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Effectively stealing our tax dollars to pay for campaigning. The beat goes on.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:06:59 AM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Red in Blue PA
This way to Murtha’s airport!
You’re getting closer.
Murtha airport just ahead.
Aw, you missed it.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:07:49 AM PDT
by
Califreak
(I can't answer that in the abstract)
To: Red in Blue PA
Are the signs being made in prison?
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:08:59 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
To: Red in Blue PA
Heck, for $2000, you could buy a TufShed, write a sign on the side, and let the homeless live in it, right next to the road, handy for hitchhiking to their next destination. Duh.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:09:18 AM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
To: Red in Blue PA
I seen one of these along 220 near Lock haven.. What a joke.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:10:32 AM PDT
by
Onerom99
(I)
To: Onerom99
They should print the names of the pols who voted for the stimulus on the sign so that everyone knows come election time.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:11:17 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:11:49 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
To: Red in Blue PA
Hell, I'd DONATE THIS sign and go to DC and erect it myself.
But I'd almost certainly get shot before I got the post holes dug.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:13:12 AM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(ELECTION 2010 IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF OUR LIFETIME! If you have to ask why, UR part of the problem!)
To: silverleaf
100K and he’s part time. Wow.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:13:35 AM PDT
by
4BoysMom
(Doing much better than I deserve, totally by the Grace of God)
To: silverleaf
Are the signs being made in prison?Probably. And if they are, they are by prisoners being paid to make them and guarded by unpaid guards (state workers are not being paid due to the budget not yet being passed)
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:14:26 AM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(Working hard so those on public assistance don't have to.)
To: silverleaf
Fast Eddie is one of the most corrupt politician in this entire land, bar none.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:14:57 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:15:03 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Red in Blue PA
To: Red in Blue PA
Must be Washington orders.
We have the same signs all over the Chicago area.
Mainly incredibly slow blacktop work - all Mexican crews.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:20:30 AM PDT
by
Hans
To: NMEwithin
That'll be $2000
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:20:58 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: EagleUSA
I’m kinda stunned the signs don’t have pictures of Obama on them, or his campaign symbols. Marxists usually operate like that.
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:23:14 AM PDT
by
mallardx
To: Red in Blue PA
I saw one of these in Robinson Twp near the Pits airport....huge waste of money
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posted on
07/17/2009 11:29:45 AM PDT
by
MadelineZapeezda
(Have you girded your loins today??????)
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