[InvisibleChurch]

the rest of the article is about 2/5 of the way down.

[InvisibleChurch]

Wasteful Spending on Bodyguards Watch: Some of the stimulus money is being poured down the drain to provide state and local government officials with bodyguards whose role is to make the officials seem important while allowing them to double-park, cut in lines and speed through stoplights. Here, Michigan's independent Mackinac Center for Public Policy reports that although the city of Detroit has severe budget problems, it spent $1.35 million last year so the mayor and his wife could enjoy round-the-clock security details. Spouses of senators and Supreme Court justices don't have bodyguards. Why does a mayor's wife? The 2009 stimulus bill included $170 million, added to the federal deficit, for Detroit city government. Supposedly, this money was to revive the city of Detroit. How much has been spent to let political insiders act like pashas?

[Santiago de la Vega]

It bought votes.
That’s what the stimulus was intended to do.
It bought the votes of all the people that voted for President Vuvuzela and his Congress.
It paid off the unions, the poor people, the socialists, and the rest of the debris floating on the tide of US prosperity.
It bought off the government retirees whose pensions are broke, and all the other folks at the bottom of the food chain who’ve been cheated by their leaders.
Don’t get confused, this has been a most successful two years for the Democrats.
It will take decades to fix this mess, especially with all the half-wit Republicans still in there.