100 Wasteful Programs of Obama's Stimulus Plan

heritage.org ^ | August 6, 2010 | The Heritage Foundation/McCain / Coburn Report

[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

[Liberty1970]

The problem is not so much that this is wasteful (I agree much of it is). The problem is that it is illegal - spending money on these things cannot be justified as a legitimate activity of federal government authorized by the Constitution.

Our founders revolted because of the unfair way the British parliament was taxing them, for example, to pay to support troops that protected the lives of the colonists. Yet we stand idly by while we are taxed to support ant studies and greater absurdities. We've fallen a long way.

[FreedFromNY]

My parents are semi-retired and have a very small business conducting antique & estate auctions. They hold a few auctions a year, and except for the auctioneer, most of the workers are family or friends. And yet... our helpful government has called them multiple times to offer them them some stimulus money. Which I’m proud to say, they’ll never accept.

But it boggles my mind - if they’re trying so hard to get this tiny little Mom & Pop operation to take their handouts, how many other people are they calling in an attempt to spend even more money? (Money that many of these people wouldn’t touch with a 20 foot pole...)

[Impy]

I’d like to leave my “perceptions” of porkulus in a flaming bag on the White House lawn. ;-p

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Obama stimulus waste

http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=a28a4590-10ac-4dc1-bd97-df57b39ed872