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I did some research on this and the MSM news did not post this as news or info. They only lightly blogged defending Obama.

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.

1 posted on 08/09/2010 7:44:47 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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-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


2 posted on 08/09/2010 7:47:58 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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Bump.


3 posted on 08/09/2010 7:55:06 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Pro Aris et Focis")
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Nothing to see here, move along.


5 posted on 08/09/2010 8:17:06 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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I would love to see a cross-reference showing Democratic campaign contributers related to beneficiaries of these programs.


6 posted on 08/09/2010 8:22:31 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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The list includes chinese dinosaur eggs studies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2566050/posts


7 posted on 08/09/2010 8:28:35 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (They shall not pass!)
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- $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music

I like to noodle around on guitar. Can I get some of Obama's stash?

8 posted on 08/09/2010 8:32:22 AM PDT by Hugin (Remember the first rule of gunfighting...have a gun..-- Col. Jeff Cooper)
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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.

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.


9 posted on 08/09/2010 8:36:56 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; ...
This is a nice report, even if McCain was involved. It's a great counter to Democrats claim that Obama had to run up all that debt to save the economy. This a claim that RINO traitor Alan Simpson is making to justify raising our taxes and cutting our future social security during the lame duck (post 2010 midterm election) session to fix the structual deficit Obama 'inherited'. References :

Heritage Foundation blog comment:Summertime Blues for the Taxpayer

The report Summertime Blues by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John McCain (R-AZ) on the 100 most wasteful projects funded in President Obama’s $862 Stimulus plan.

11 posted on 08/09/2010 8:42:31 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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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.


12 posted on 08/09/2010 8:44:07 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Every election is like an advance auction sale of stolen goods"--H.L.Mencken)
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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.


13 posted on 08/09/2010 8:45:50 AM PDT by demsux (Obama: THE job destroyer)
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The list, ping


15 posted on 08/09/2010 10:22:11 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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RE :”- $193,956 to study voter perceptions of the economic stimulus

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??

16 posted on 08/09/2010 10:41:24 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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...$700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity...

no comment needed.


18 posted on 08/09/2010 11:07:48 AM PDT by dockkiller (COME AND TAKE IT.)
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The well connected get richer.

Pay your taxes - these people really need the money. :)


20 posted on 08/09/2010 11:30:07 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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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.

21 posted on 08/09/2010 11:40:40 AM PDT by Liberty1970 (http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lydiablievernicht)
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