Posted on 11/23/2009 7:34:34 AM PST by SmithL
Nine months after President Obama promised that his $789 billion stimulus package would be the most transparent spending bill in history, much of the information available to the public for the Bay Area and the rest of the nation is incomplete or inaccurate.
The White House's Recovery Act Web site - www.recovery.gov - shows that $660 million has been awarded to Bay Area transportation projects to create 997 jobs, which amounts to a staggering $661,986 per job.
Last week, the site showed that California Congressional Districts 00 and 99 received millions of dollars in stimulus funding even though neither district exists.
The Bay Area's total also included $1.8 million to purchase buses in Duluth, Minn., which the federal Web site pinpointed with a dot just below San Leandro, and $4.8 million for road work in Laredo - which is in Texas.
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amounts to a staggering $661,986 per job.As long as each job represents at least one vote bought, then it was a worthwhile investment by the administration.
Obama lied, the economy died!
As long as those votes were bought in San Francisco, it was a waste of money.
Dems don’t need to buy votes there.
Big city style government at the national level.
Another death rattle from our Republic.
The figures cannot be correct. 660 million would represent far more in stimulus money than has yet been allocated. (something like 15%)
It's sort of like a right of passage for gu'mint work.
Even ancillary divisions like the Coast Guard, a few years ago they set up an asphalt tanker leaking in the Delaware River, "officials" stated it was only leaking 20,000 gallons, however it was listing 10 degrees.
Some no-dummy sailor type pals of mine did the math.
For a vessel of that size to be at that angle it had to have lost 200,000 gallons.
Well, we told them so, (their faces quickly matched their ghostly white uniforms), next day they "updated" their estimate for the prestitutes.
CASE IN POINT We kept reading and hearing about Obama's rushing Congress to approve the $787 billion stimulus package early this year. Now uber-Lobbyist Thomas Hale Boggs, Esq, interviewed by ABC nightly news several weeks ago, said, "there's $2 TRILLION federal stimulus waiting to be distributed". Boggs said he was getting unprecedented numbers of calls from all over the US......from those who want a piece of it. (Boggs is the son of former Cong Hale Boggs and brother of former ABC-TV commentator Cokie Roberts).
CASE IN POINT Obama tapped VP Joe Biden to "allocate" the stimulus $$trillions. Biden's family was involved with Texas financier H. Allen Stanford, now charged with an $8 billion offshore fraud, the WSJ said. The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and a Stanford Financial Group entity, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related companies marketed the fund to global investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.......... Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the VP's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to newspapers.
CASE IN POINT How can this be legal? A jaw-dropping policy the White House released late on a May Saturday afternoon........hoping we would not notice. "Following OMB’s review, the Obama Administration has decided to make a number of changes to the rules that we think make them even tougher on special interests and more focused on merits-based decision making. First, we will expand the restriction on oral communications to cover all persons, not just federally registered lobbyists. For the first time, we will reach contacts not only by registered lobbyists but also by unregistered ones, as well as anyone else exerting influence on the process. We concluded this was necessary under the unique circumstances of the stimulus program."
CASE IN POINT On June 9, 2009 Obama called a press conference to announce, "Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68B to taxpayers." Reasonable people (taxpayers) assumed that any money or profit would be returned to the general funds from whence it had come .......in order to pay down the debt. The truth, however, is that the money returned by the banks is finding new life as part of what amounts to a Treasury Dept-controlled slush fund.
CASE IN POINT Obama's obsessive reach for "healthcare reform" confirms reform is another trillion dollar govt slush fund for hand-picked insiders.......ACORN, Soros, SEIU. Keep in mind---COS Rahm Emanuel and his brother Dr Zeke--are in charge of the healthcare trillions.
COULD THE STIMULUS BE BRIBING HOLDOUT LEGISLATORS TO VOTE FOR OBAMCARE (/snic)? A largely overlooked provision in The senate healthcare bill sends $100 million to Louisiana to "help" cover costs for Medicaid "for the poor." PLUS another $200 Million for Katrina costs. Former holdout Mary Landrieu as the 8PM vote loomed Saturday night: "I've decided that there are enough significant reforms and safeguards in this bill to move forward." (Duh)
Hmmmmmmmm.....so where IS THAT darn stimulus? We need audits, WH cell phone records, computer links, wire-transfers, and bank records to get an accurate accounting of our tax dollars.
BTW, Ohaha's planning ANOTHER trillion dollar stimulus.
The figures cannot be correct. 660 million would represent far more in stimulus money than has yet been allocated. (something like 15%)
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