Posted on 08/09/2010 7:44:44 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Examples of wasteful projects include:
- $762,372 to create “Dance Draw” interactive dance software
- $1.9 million for international ant research
- $1.8 million for a road project that is threatening a pastor’s home
- $308 million for a joint clean energy venture with…BP
- $89,298 to replace a new sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, OK
- $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policy makers
- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music
- $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity
- $193,956 to study voter perceptions of the economic stimulus
- $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects
- $456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune’s atmosphere
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
The Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) report on the 100 most wasteful projects funded in President Obama’s $862 Stimulus plan.
This report contains some of the most egregious and wasteful programs ever recorded and was never REPORTED by the mainstream Media.
-a 1.9 million grant to the California Academy of Sciences to send researchers to the Southwest Indian Islands and east Africa to study Ants
Bump.
PRESS CONFERENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70SO_MDDXUA&feature=player_embedded
http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=a7e82141-1a9e-4eec-b160-6a8e62427efb
Nothing to see here, move along.
I would love to see a cross-reference showing Democratic campaign contributers related to beneficiaries of these programs.
The list includes chinese dinosaur eggs studies.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2566050/posts
I like to noodle around on guitar. Can I get some of Obama's stash?
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The Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) report on the 100 most wasteful
projects funded in President Obama’s $862 Stimulus plan.
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It’s interesting that McCain has found a new friend now that his
old buddy Teddy Kennedy has departed.
How convenient...seeing how he’s sweating a little in his current election campaign.
I only saw two things, at best, that deserved that kind of money, and they were low in comparison to the others. A jobs program didn’t even get a million, and ski lifts and snowblowers were something like 25 million? Old, historic yet very tiny properties getting millions? Give me a break!
Heritage Foundation blog comment:Summertime Blues for the Taxpayer
This is an impressive piece of research, on the face of it.
“Pork” has always been a big issue with McCain, who , as we
all know , has been so maddeningly weak in so many other ways, on so many other issues.
I don’t have the patience to add up all 100 expenditures
but I KNOW they don’t amount to more than a fraction of
stimulus money that’s either been spent, is in the batter’s box, waiting to be spent, or whatever.
I’d be interested to see what it adds up to.
But as for now, it all looks very much like the kind of government waste that’s been going on for decades.
Even though it would have a good, “positively negative” effect on Obama,to reveal it to voters
who still aren’t aware that the stimulus package didn’t stimulate anything for 99.999 percent of us.
Missing also is an analysis which ties it all together, and shows how inherently PARTISAN the expenditure of all those billions is, and just WHO IT BENEFITS.
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) and her husband have received over $3,000,000 in stimulus funds for their section 8 housing projects...but no news media will touch that story.
I overall agree that they all have been doing this for decades. and McCain is all but worthless.
But... to put the name ‘stimulus’ on a crap load of pork and promote it with a teleprompter as the savior over and over and over saying it will save us all is blatantly wrong above all that is wrong in DC.
The list, ping
My favorite !
Maybe they will conclude that voter's false perceptions of this bill is that it was wasteful spending ONLY because of FNC and Republican ‘propaganda’.
Voters perceptions LOL. Won't that be obvious election day??
you can’t make... this crap up...
...$700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity...
no comment needed.
The well connected get richer.
Pay your taxes - these people really need the money. :)
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