The Obama Admin deals more with schlock and “Awwww!”.
“Next it’ll be Barack Obama funded your teacher and Barack Obama funded your bridge.”
They have stuff like that in europe
I hte the signs that are here. Apparently I’m not the only one because one looked like something had been thrown on it.
I see loads of these up here in Massachusetts, and every single one of them makes my blood boil due to the absolute waste and uselessness of them.
Never mind, that I have negative reinforcement from them. Every single time I see one, bad things happen. The road is freshly dug up and I get a rock in my windscreen (a few weeks ago), a decent road is going to be torn all to hell and traffic congested and re-routed in already congested and re-routed areas.
On this one road I travel, it has been dug up nearly continuously (It seems) for the last fifteen years. I start to feel like Michael Douglass’ character in “Falling Down” every time I see one of those reprehensible signs.
And you know...it is only UNION work that is generated.
What it indicated to me is that our local government is so mismanaged that it cannot afford to do the basic infrastructure maintenance that used to be the raison d'etre of local government.
But with 80% of my property taxes going to fund the local public schools that my children do not even use, I'm not really surprised they have trouble finding money for such frivolities as sheriff's deputies, fire trucks and road repair.
I am aware of a road project that has been ongoing for a while. One day, there was a big shiny new sign announcing that stimulus money was paying for the project. That sign must have cost plenty.
Great, I though. That stretch of road is in bad shape, and needs work. The pavement is terrible, and it floods with every heavy rain. Maybe something good will come of this.
Wrong. Ever since that sign went up a couple of months ago, I have seen absolutely no work being done. The road is in worse shape now than when they started on it.
SOP in Chi - Da Mare built dis.
PennDOT so far has spent about $60,000 of the U.S. government’s recovery cash, or about $2,000 per highway, to post signs on 30 road repair and construction projects across the Commonwealth that are being paid for by money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The (Allentown PA) Morning Call newspaper reported Friday (July 17, 2009)
Nationwide, however, millions of dollars are being spent to produce those same signs.
PennDOT’s Steve Chizmar told Morning Call reporter Josh Drobnyk the state was attempting to be selective in where Recovery Act signage was placed, even though the federal Highway Administration strongly urged that every project receiving an economic jump start be signed. PennDOT signs are in locations that were of highest visibility, Chizmar said.
As a move intended to reap positive publicity, the signs aren’t getting the reception supporters might have hoped.
In New York, a state senator on Wednesday (July 15, 2009) called the idea “a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.” In New Hampshire, one of its two U.S. senators openly wondered what jobs, if any, the signage created. A Massachusetts newspaper complained, tongue in cheek, that the signs amounted to false advertising.
“I thought the idea behind the stimulus money was to get people back to work, not promote government. These signs are simply a shameless plug that wastes the public’s money,” New York legislator James L. Seward told his hometown newspaper, The (Little Falls NY) Evening Times.
http://sanatoga.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/recovery-act-signs-cause-a-stir/