Posted on 08/31/2010 4:15:37 PM PDT by Rhonda Robinson
It’s easy to joke about the absurdity of stimulus funds gone awry, but every dollar was earned by the sweat of someone else’s brow. When you hear of a Kentucky furnace—unused for almost 140 years—getting close to a million dollars cumulative for restoration, you might go huh? All there is to show for the money is a roof and corner stabilization, and admittedly, most of the money was ‘lost’ due to ‘bad stewardship’.
But that’s nothing compared to the quarter million dollar study of the effect of cocaine on monkeys and the sex drive of Japanese quail. Then there’s a million dollar program encouraging people to quit smoking by giving them a free Smart phone, and the six million to restore global Islamist sites.
Aren’t you glad you get up every day to support Obama’s latest boondoggle?
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Stimulus being sought to help a failing company gain a competitive advantage:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/101531088.html
404 is one of my favorite errors.
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