Posted on 08/27/2009 12:33:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – A sleepy Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that sees about three travelers a day will get $15 million under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan. A government priority list ranked the project as marginal, but two powerful Democratic senators persuaded the administration to make it happen.
Despite Obama's promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., to skip ahead of more pressing concerns, according to documents revealed to The Associated Press.
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Baucus and Tester; we are comming for you!
For $720 million, my family and I will quit our jobs to build a border fence with own hands across the Southern border of the U.S.
And we’ll probably finish it before Obama and his thugs hand out one penny of stimulus money for something useful.
In my part of NJ, Corzine managed to shift the stimulous money to pay for road repair already under way on Rte 295. So no new jobs, but the state money can be shifted elsewhere. I think the only “stimulous” was paying for signs up extolling the use of federal dollars.
Oh Barbara freakin Streisand he banned earmarks. The entire gosh darned stimulus was one big earmark for crying out loud.
Vote for Dims....expect this.
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