Wasteful Stimulus Dollars Part Three (Scam Art Alert)

Center for Fiscal Accountability ^ | 8/5/10 | Renae Bartusch

[Andrea19]

This week, Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) released a report titled “Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects that Give Taxpayers the Blues.” As the title suggests, it is a laundry list of projects funded by the “stimulus” bill. This is the third report in the series that highlights stimulus projects that are wasteful, mismanaged, and have been unsuccessful. The Center for Fiscal Accountability warned Senators that voting for this spending package under the guise of a stimulus was a huge mistake.

These series of reports are only confirming our fears that this “stimulus” bill would be an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars. $1.9 million for international ant research, $89,298 to replace a new sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, OK, and $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music are just a few examples of the projects that the third report drew attention to. President Obama promised that unemployment would not go above 8% if the “stimulus” bill was passed. That unemployment continues to hover around 10 percent is hardly surprising, given the ludicrous projects taxpayers are left to pay for a failed attempt to fix the economy and create more jobs...

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