Posted on 08/08/2009 11:41:34 PM PDT by Ron C.
Edited on 08/08/2009 11:51:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Where’s all that ‘Stimulus’ money going? We were told it was to create jobs, but we know with certainty that few to no permanent jobs were created. We also know that ‘Stimulus’ did nothing for ‘the economy’ – but did much to repress it.
The worst part of the ‘Stimulus’ handout is the huge amount that went to Pell Grants – most of it to benefit leftist university and student interests (one of Obama’s greatest support groups) – not a dime of which will create a job.
Now you can see for yourself where all of it went - and by how much. A few short-term jobs were created – some as short as one day - just to claim that a job was created.
As you might expect, the biggest winner of ‘Stimulus’ has been California, receiving a whopping $15.7 billion, and Los Angeles County getting the lion’s share of that, at $2.1 billion – some of that going to long neglected street and sidewalk pavement, and keeping the huge number of incompetent city employees employed – but a vast amount of it going to renovating transit buses, renovation of decaying schools – and lots of money to interests of the leftist teachers unions, probably Obama’s second greatest source of support in California.
Check your County… see who is getting what amount. You can bet government workers will be getting the greatest amounts. Meanwhile – forget about small business, particularly any that are Republican or Conservative.
And MANY THANKS to Michael Grabell, Jennifer LaFleur, Dan Nguyen, and Jeff Larson of Pro Publica - for making the huge effort to lay all of this out for the nation to see.
This is without doubt the greatest case of political payola - at taxpayer expense - in this nation's history.
Might want to double check the links in your post.
TX - I will! ~grim grin~
Both of the links are to blank pages.
Nevermind. Fixed.
—BURGER KING $999,000.00 —?!?!??!!
http://projects.propublica.org/recovery/locale/colorado/adams
WTF?!
Anyway - this is really an eye opener, for me anyway. I figured the 'stimulus' was payola... but, this confirms it, as Cheney would say, big time!
But I thought some multi-million dollar government website was going to give us this information. /sarc
LOL - NOT! (They reeeeaallly don’t want you to know!)
LOL - maybe that's for the burger flippin' youth (college types) that voted 0!
Notice how many ‘single family housing’ grants there are? Bet some of these are those who worked on 0’s campaign and ‘needed’ better ‘digs.’
Honestly, I am so disgusted with my country and government lately, that at times I feel almost detached from it. I find myself just wanting to get out. It’s just too big and too complicated. Those pell grants are sickening. The amounts are staggering! Is there any reason they can’t get student loans and pay them back. UGH!! I wish I hadn’t even looked.
This sucker will pay for his crimes in more than one way. He's already on the way to being the most unpopular prez in US history.
And no... there is no reason for all these grants, other than political payola.
bump
More than a ‘bit maddening’ - this will infuriate a huge number of people across this great land.
That’s an amazing compilation of porkulus funds. Thanks for posting.
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