And yet only 9000 houses got insulated...but that's a fair trade off...just spreading the wealth from the entire freaking nation to weatherize 9k houses. It wouldn't be so bad that we have a clown for a president if he weren't so malicious.
Sorry, I derailed the thread a bit there. I didn’t mean to imply that the entire 2011 budget will in fact be spent on these houses. It’s just that the numbers really are very similar.
Wow, 60K per taxpayer, and that’s just for 2011. The only thing buffering America against colossal devaluation will be the parallel colossal devaluations of the Euro and the Pound.
I’m in the insulation business and retrofit hundreds of homes per month. We received RFP’s (requests for proposals) for weatherization programs and the paperwork compliance is so silly that we refused to supply bids for it. We would have to comply with dozens of crazy paperwork rules and have to pay Davis-Bacon wages for the crews. A job that we can do privately for $500 would cost $1,000 or more due to the irrational requirements. Classic example of well-intentioned government gone wrong.
Most of the money that the government has spent has gone to local governments who are supposedly setting up departments to administer the weatherization programs. So, in other words, the stimulus money went into the black hole of local governments, never to be seen or heard from again.