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Wasteful Stimulus Spending (Breaking on Drudge)
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Posted on 07/20/2009 5:05:55 AM PDT by teg_76

SPENDING SCARED: WHITE HOUSE PUTS OFF RELEASE OF BUDGET RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $2,531,600 FOR 'HAM, WATER ADDED, COOKED, FROZEN, SLICED, 2-LB'...

RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,191,200 FOR '2 POUND FROZEN HAM SLICED'...

RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'...

RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'...

RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: govwatch; lping; obama; pork; stimulus; waste
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
Who gets the hams?

I hope it's me.

Golly that must be one crazy delicious ham!

I'll bet it's spiral cut razor thin with a brown sugar glaze and those pineapple chunks and maraschino cherries on the outside while it's being baked.

81 posted on 07/20/2009 7:21:43 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: P-Marlowe

I checked out all of CA. Del Monte is getting some good money. Alot of work is being done on our military bases.


82 posted on 07/20/2009 7:22:08 AM PDT by CaliGirl-R
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To: P-Marlowe

I checked out all of CA. Del Monte is getting some good money, for what, I don’t know. Also alot of work is being done on our military bases.


83 posted on 07/20/2009 7:22:45 AM PDT by CaliGirl-R
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To: teg_76
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84 posted on 07/20/2009 7:24:47 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: teg_76

Sludge’s caps-lock key has been stuck for years.


85 posted on 07/20/2009 7:25:15 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Owl_Eagle

(((YuMmmmm)))You just made my mouth water. All I to eat is a have is a banana and yogurt.


86 posted on 07/20/2009 7:28:20 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Lancey Howard

I suspect that book is outdated and needs an upgrade. It will have 1000 pages under the listing PORK. (Ham?)


87 posted on 07/20/2009 7:32:28 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Owl_Eagle

>>Wait, does this mean we spent 2.5 million dollars on 2 lb of ham? It couldn’t be 2 lb containers of ham, half a million of them or something, could it?<<

I was wondering that too — is this for multiples of these items? Or would that be noted on the pages drudge linked to?


88 posted on 07/20/2009 7:37:24 AM PDT by twinzmommy
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To: twinzmommy
Or would that be noted on the pages drudge linked to?

Nothing there. Although that in itself should be cause for some alarm.

Interestingly, I ran the names of the executives for the first ham company through opensecrets.org and came up empty.

Then I ran the Hormel people through and aside from a lot of Norm Coleman donations, I really didn't see much.

It's not unlikely that I'm missing something though, with this crew behind the wheel.

89 posted on 07/20/2009 7:44:48 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: bamahead

90 posted on 07/20/2009 7:45:25 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: teg_76
"Award Overview .....Description of Work/Service performed RECOVERY ACT-PROJECT 630A4-08-406, REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER"

They're going to get rid of Biden!!

91 posted on 07/20/2009 7:51:20 AM PDT by cookcounty (http://www.stumpedagain.wordpress.com)
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To: Calamari
The quantities contracted for each item (dumb waiter aside) would be helpful to understand how much per pound is being spent.

The quantity on the ham is 2 pounds for the bargain price of just a little under $1.2 million. I saw nothing on the page indicating any other sort of quantity. Here's a screen capture:


92 posted on 07/20/2009 8:04:32 AM PDT by Bob
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To: coop71
This is the amount PER package or unit, not the total amount of food sold to the gov’t. It’s food for distribution to needy people apparently.

If that were the case, the number of units being purchased would be listed. There's no number of units on the page at all.

93 posted on 07/20/2009 8:08:28 AM PDT by Bob
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To: chrisser
it sure would be interesting to take a look at the political donations of the companies who were awarded these contracts, along with their their owners and senior managers.

If they're even real companies, you mean.

I looked at the ones from my state- there were two contracts locally; one for $60,000 in road signs for a town that probably has only 400 summer residents. The other was for some $80,000 road project in a very small town, way out in the boonies. Makes one wonder...

94 posted on 07/20/2009 8:16:00 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Bob

They have responded saying it is food for food assistance/soup kitchens.

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2009/07/0322.xml


95 posted on 07/20/2009 8:53:03 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: JaguarXKE

Must be WAGYU Ham................


96 posted on 07/20/2009 8:53:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Inquiring minds want to know, but American Idol minds could care less...)
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To: teg_76

See post # 95.


97 posted on 07/20/2009 8:58:14 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

That makes a lot more sense than the original posting. I have to wonder why in the world the 760,000 pound figure wasn’t listed on the recovery.gov posting.


98 posted on 07/20/2009 9:36:20 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob

Yeah exactly. Especially since 18 million was spent on the very site.


99 posted on 07/20/2009 9:55:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Bob

Agriculture Sec. Vilsack: ‘Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound’...
FOOD LION: $.79 Lb...

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2009/07/0322.xml


100 posted on 07/20/2009 9:58:07 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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