Posted on 11/18/2009 10:43:07 AM PST by markomalley
President Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package has been a bonanza for D.C.-based special interest groups, like the National Council of La Raza, AARP and a fund for the Service Employees International Union.
The NCLR snagged $156,620 in stimulus cash and the AARP benefited from a whopping $18,176,224 according to the government.
The Washington Times found organizations cashing in on the stimulus include Georgetown University ($14,807,804), the Service Employees International Union Education and Support Fund ($265,136), the Lockheed Martin Aspen Systems Corp. ($1,866,582), the Urban Institute ($1,443,178), National Public Radio, Inc. ($50,000), the National Building Museum ($50,000), the Shakespeare Theatre ($50,000) and the Washington Chorus Inc. ($50,000).
The stimulus tracking Web site www.Recovery.gov has come under fire this week for listing up to 440 nonexistent congressional districts consuming more than $6 billion in stimulus funding, and now watchdogs are tracking down where that money went.
One of them is Matt Purple, a former Washington Times intern, who documented some of the D.C. stimulus dollars are being used to boost special interests at www.Watchdog.org. He highlighted money going to immigrants rights advocacy groups and other organizations taxpayers may object to funding, like churches. Catholic University of America, which is run by the Catholic Church, received more than $2 million. Catholic charities received $71,546 and Episcopalian charities took in $169,898, Mr. Purple found.
Watchdog.org is a project of the Franklin Center for Government Integrity and Policy a nonprofit dedicated to aggregating and highlighting reporting from state and local journalists to promote government transparency. Franklin Center President Jason Stverak said their team decided to start looking into the bad congressional districts and stimulus spending after seeing reports from New Mexico about it. Watchdog.org compiled a 15-page report documenting the “phantom districts” that is available on their Web site.
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In other words, spreading the wealth is only meant for super duper special folks.
Wow! I’ve never seen so many typos in my life!!
I keep thinking that if someone is going to follow the money, it Will lead them to “Organizing for Ameroca”. It seemed very odd to me that during a recession, they have found enough money to open branches in every state. How did that happen?
The list, ping
Call it what it is.
The Congress and the BO administration, with the stim, money, in effect set up a huge slush fund for them to distribute amongst their non-gov allies in order to strengthen their grip on power — and over our country. This involved borrowing the money from China AND IT WILL BE PAID BACK BY OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, who are being enslaved. This is about as corrupt as it gets. Organizing American is only a small part of this sinister, yes sinister, situation. It appears to be democratic, it appears to be legal, it is depicted by their media allies as legitimate. But it isn’t. Louis XIV would be proud. The Founders of this country would tell us this is EXACTLY what they warned us about.
That's part of what BOUGHT their endorsement for Obamacare.
The rest will come from selling gap insurance to seniors who will need it after the Medicare cuts.
It did seem really “fishy” to me how quickly they can pull together millions for the Corzine (non)re-election campaign. They can just snap their fingers and millions of dollars appear. This administration (after 2012) will be prosecuted for all of this. Why doesn’t that bother them? Now that they have gone after the republicans with these stupid, wasteful, show trials in New York, they have opened a can of worms that will surely land them in jail. I just don’t get it.
Don’t leave Congress out of your calculations. The White House couldn’t pull off its corrupt tricks without the DIRECT PARTICIPATION OF Pelosi, Reid, the appropriation committee chairmen and others, such as Bawney, Waxman, Rangel, etc.
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