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AP ENTERPRISE: A look at who got gov't Gulf work
Associated Press ^ | September 13, 2010 | SHARON THEIMER

Posted on 09/13/2010 3:41:59 AM PDT by decimon

WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush's much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina.

The government also spent $10,000 for just over three minutes of video showing a routine offshore rig inspection for news organizations but couldn't say whether any ran the footage. And it awarded a $216,625 no-bid contract for a survey of seabirds to an environmental group that has criticized what it calls the "extreme anti-conservation record" of Sarah Palin, a possible 2012 rival to President Barack Obama.

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1 posted on 09/13/2010 3:42:01 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

I busted my ass all these years to pay confiscatory taxes to a bloated federal gov’t that wastes my money on totally useless sh**! Gee, it makes me so proud and feel so good!


2 posted on 09/13/2010 3:48:23 AM PDT by Doc Savage (SOBAMP!)
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To: Doc Savage

If they didn’t spend our money on this self-promotion, how would we know all about their good works? /s


3 posted on 09/13/2010 3:53:45 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Doc Savage
I busted my ass all these years to pay confiscatory taxes to a bloated federal gov’t that wastes my money on totally useless sh**! Gee, it makes me so proud and feel so good!

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Liar = Obama.

Cheater = Feds.

Thief = Congress.

Con artist = Piss-Stream Media.

Throw 'em all out.

OBAMA-IN-JAIL-2sm

4 posted on 09/13/2010 4:29:29 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: decimon
It spent $52,000 on a boat charter described merely as "marine charter for things," with no further explanation.

The only aspect of this story that surprises me is that the MSM is actually reporting it, and that some reporter appears to have done some genuine research. Maybe even reporters are getting sick of paying confiscatory taxes for things like this.

5 posted on 09/13/2010 4:48:25 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Maybe even reporters are getting sick of paying confiscatory taxes for things like this.

Maybe they're tired of becoming obsolete.

6 posted on 09/13/2010 4:54:02 AM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

BP should publicly list all of the Political bills it will not pay.


7 posted on 09/13/2010 5:31:28 AM PDT by G Larry (I'd rather see the voters write off Obama!)
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To: G Larry

The constant barrage of BP’s “feel-good” TV commercials irritates the crap out me, & they are surely claiming advertising expense toward their cleanup bill.


8 posted on 09/13/2010 5:51:48 AM PDT by orlop9
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To: orlop9
they are surely claiming advertising expense toward their cleanup bill.

Please tell us about all the tax deductions you do not use to fullest advantage.

9 posted on 09/13/2010 6:22:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: Doc Savage

Why would anyone expect anything different from any black politician holding the office? Heck, even black Congress folks are the same. Their mentality is to dole out our hard earned money in such shiploads so as to enable likeminded “bros” and pretend wannabes to scoop up the big piles while the spillage goes to their voter support base.


10 posted on 09/13/2010 6:22:30 AM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: decimon

bump


11 posted on 09/13/2010 6:48:07 AM PDT by gibsosa
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Read my post. I didn’t say anything about tax deductions, I was speaking specifically about BP’s cleanup bill.


12 posted on 09/13/2010 7:03:03 AM PDT by orlop9
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To: decimon
Now we know what Obama's new "shovel-ready" jobs consist of.....he gives do-nothing contracts to cronies and supporters and we have to shovel all the BS away to see how much we've been taken for.

Leni

13 posted on 09/13/2010 7:06:23 AM PDT by MinuteGal (B'OR:"Obama is not a Marxist"(10/20/09)..."Communism is no threat to us any more" (9/8/09))
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To: MinuteGal

It’s the “Chicago Way”

That’s one school that Baraq actually studied at.


14 posted on 09/13/2010 7:09:12 AM PDT by nascarnation
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