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Barack Obama's $1.1 Million Botanical Garden -- Er, $100,000 Gazebo
Newsbusters ^ | September 7, 2008 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 09/07/2008 12:37:55 PM PDT by SJackson

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To: SJackson

For my Eagle Scout project, I built a 12X12 octagonal gazebo at my old elementary school.

The PTA put up half the money for supplies, Lubrizol matched that to pay for the other half. Total cost of the supplies was around $2800, so that’s pretty darn close to what you found at the Home Depot. Yours looks a little fancier though, good find!

I don’t recall how many hours we logged, but it was fewer than 200 man-hours, including procurement of materials, and being amateur builders (teenagers and dads) I’d say a contractor would be able to put it up in about 50 manhours or less. Not sure where that $97,500 went!

Good find!


21 posted on 09/07/2008 2:30:01 PM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: OBXWanderer

LOL!


22 posted on 09/07/2008 2:33:27 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: null and void

ping number 5


23 posted on 09/07/2008 2:44:22 PM PDT by DeLaine (For those who have fought for it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know.)
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To: SJackson
A Parrot Sanctuary in Chicago? What Illinois State Government Moron (redundant I know) signed off on THAT?

Oh...BO.....never mind.

L

24 posted on 09/07/2008 2:52:19 PM PDT by Lurker (She's not a lesbian, she doesn't whine, she doesn't hate her country, and she's not afraid of guns.)
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To: SJackson

Community organizing success story?


25 posted on 09/07/2008 2:55:11 PM PDT by Notasoccermom (.)
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To: Westlander

#5 That’s where his TRUE base lives.

They really beleive that the crumbs this socialist tosses to them wil fic everything. These folks like to be SLAVES to the government.


26 posted on 09/07/2008 3:16:33 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: SJackson

I have to bump this article from three years ago.

At the time, we were wondering how Obama’s past performance would influence his handling of the economy, if he ever became POTUS.

Now we know.


27 posted on 08/09/2011 7:32:12 AM PDT by kidd (S&P gives Obama an 'AA+'...Obama's only published grade)
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To: kidd

What a disgrace, but not as bad as those who voted for him.


28 posted on 08/09/2011 8:01:44 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: The flash mob who wonÂ’t leave.)
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To: kidd

Thanks for bumping this. Wow! What waste—the difference in cost between a Home Depot gazebo and the money allocated here, translated onto the national scale, makes me sick.


29 posted on 08/09/2011 10:51:54 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
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Thanks for bumping this. Wow! What waste—the difference in cost between a Home Depot gazebo and the money allocated here, translated onto the national scale, makes me sick.


30 posted on 08/09/2011 11:07:46 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (To paraphrase Sarah Palin: "I love when the liberals get all wee-wee'd up.")
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To: kidd

Thanks, this is the genesis of the 3 day birthday bash while the markets burned. Nero didn’t fiddle, he couldn’t play the fiddle, but The One fiddled in todays meaning of the word. Which includes barefoot electric slides in the rose garden.


31 posted on 08/09/2011 4:36:36 PM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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