Posted on 02/01/2009 10:13:22 AM PST by sybilll
The first jewel that jumps out is $100,000 for .........doorbells??? Browse around. It will make you laugh, and then weep.
WOW my state(california) wants a lot of money, almost 1800 projects..big shock there..
NOT
Doorbells? The great thing about this horrible bill is that it provides insight into the Democrat mind.
bttt
Doorbells and the 2 dog parks? Unbelievable!
WOW! What a site. Thanks!
Send this to every local Talk Radio person you know!
” Doorbells ? “
Does that make the Democrats the Ding Dong Party ?
500k for a dog park ???
Doorbells=NO Knockers=YES
Why should taxpayers pay for a convention center hotel in Dallas, TX?
WTF?!?!? This is the biggest piece of bullshit I have ever seen! This must be stopped!
Please send this link to your local talk show hosts. I just e-mailed mine.
Now if somebody can get a breakdown like that, why can’t the government have a breakdown by city as to income tax payments?
Then, the next time someone proposes a bill that cost “only” $20-mil, the opposition can say “That’s the entire taxes of the people in XX city/state.” Cyphers don’t get taxpayers upset, maybe personalizing it will.
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Great link!!!
I looked at our local transfer of wealth. One thing that popped out was the fourteen million for the downtown library. My husband and every other person in the private sector has been hectored for the last five years to give a donation to the library. No one is willing to give money. The library has become a de facto homeless shelter. The last time I went, I accompanied my high school daughter and there was a guard who sole job was to wake up the homeless or kick them out if they fell asleep. I wish that I was kidding.
How are they going to maintain these projects after they are built?
There was a hundred million dollar private gift to our town several years ago to construct a civic center. In the end the cost was twice what the initial proposal was. And now the city won’t take title because they can’t afford the maintenance on the building.
What happens when the cost of these projects exceeds the cost allotted? We all know that in government that is a given. Give us some. We need more. How are they going to maintain this?
INSANITY. Total insanity!
Here’s $1.5 million tax dollars soon to be down the drain:
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/search/prostitution
San Diego, California. Twenty million bucks for the “downtown quiet zone”.
Somebody correct me if my thinking is incorrect, but the claimed “jobs being created” for these projects is largely bogus. For at least the infrastructure work, most of the construction will be carried out by people already having state jobs.
For instance, let me just pull a random infrastructure project off a list - Road Resurfacing and Reconstruction, Selected Roads, in Auburn AL, for 10 million big ones. It says that 35 jobs will be created. This is not true, however. What will happen is that the project will temporarily occupy 35 personnel from either the Alabama Dept. of Transportation, or the local county or municipal equivalent. No job is being created, we merely have gubmint jobs being preserved by massive infusions of tax dollars.
I’m in a city that, interestingly enough, hasn’t put in for any of the ‘free money’. Essentially, it’s because we don’t approve projects unless we have the money to pay for them. And, we took them at their word, and thought ‘shovel ready’ meant ‘shovel ready’.
Most of these projects are in the ‘wouldn’t it be nice to have’ stage, meaning they’ll have to go through the design process, done, as you surmise, primarily by municipal employees. Then there’ll be the permitting stage, the environmental review, the interfacing with other agencies, and finally the bidding stage. Once the bidding is awarded, the actual construction can begin. So, the administration really doesn’t have to be concerned about their stated concerns that they didn’t want the money to go to white male construction workers. It won’t get there for a long, long, time.
It figures. All the projects cited for New York State are in large Democratic cities.
Hey, just think of those jobs that will be created: Doorbell tester, and dog turd picker-upper.
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