Posted on 03/19/2009 11:21:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Biden Begs: No Swimming Pools! Posted by Mark Knoller | Comments
Looking to strike fear and compliance in the hearts of local officials, Vice President Joe Biden warns that if they use money from the economic stimulus fund to build what he regards as the wrong kind of projects, “I’ll show up in your city and say this was a stupid idea.”
“No swimming pools!” he implored. “No tennis courts!” he begged. “No golf courses!” he pleaded. “No Frisbee parks!” he exhorted.
“This can’t be government as usual,” he told an assemblage of local officials invited to the White House from around the country.
Even if they can promise him that building their projects will create jobs and generate revenue, Biden wants none of it.
“The answer is no, no, no!” He said “it’s got to pass the smell test.”
He urged the officials to think about how their constituents would react if the projects they launched were plastered on the front page of their biggest local newspaper.
“If it doesn’t automatically make sense, don’t do it!”
Once the officials get funding for infrastructure, Biden said, they can do what they like with it. But he served notice that if they launch the kind of projects he deems inappropriate, he won’t be shy about saying what he thinks.
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““I’ll show up in your city and say this was a stupid idea.””
Does Biden really believe that people care what he thinks? Is his ego that large?
I know a local city arts group I do freelance work for went to a meeting for teaching them how to tap into the stimulus money for the NEA so the NEA did get money.
Not to mention that it is going to make a lot of rich lonely women very unhappy.
In fact, I see a future where citizens everywhere will be forced to give up 5 foot strips of their property so that no road in America will face the indignity of not having a bike path along it.
“I’ll show up in your city and say this was a stupid idea.”
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Yeah, that will teach them a lession!
No swimming pools, which might actually be something that benefits my community and its children, better it all go to ACORN so they can rig the next hundred years of elections.
Now!
You and The One pushed the bill with the money in it for this, now go pry it out of Nancy's plastic hand.
Scardy cat.
LOL maybe he will show up in a blue helmet.
Their plan is working beautifully. An old man once told me, “When someone gives you money, they tell you how to spend it.” They are buying America with our money and we’re allowing them to do it.
I was impressed
I miss Traficant, my favorite D.
The Kennedy Library should be demolished.
What a complete waste of money sitting in the middle of nowhere.
Lived approx 20 miles from it my whole life and never been there once.
Took classes next door at Umass Boston and never bothered going there ever.
And now they’re gonna DUMP another 22 Million into it?
Jeez.
Meanwhile UMass next door slowly crumbles into the ocean.
At the expanded Seattle airport they did some TV report on the artwork on a retaining wall. Something like 1% of these public works projects goes to art. The wall had a frieze (sp?) of salmon in a river, forget how many tens of thousands of dollars it cost.
Oh - and only visible through the trees from a restricted maintenance access road on the airport property!
Nice,
Bring back the murals from the 70’s.
Pretty soon it’s gonna be Good Times 24/7 on Nik at night.
That’s right! I was thinking more like from the 30’s - but the 70’s too.
I imagine that these stimulus funds for the road projects will also include that 1% to arts stipulation.
Is this a problem or a beneficial side-effect?
Good question.
What i do know is that the place is built with sub-sub-stardard concrete or something from the 70’s and is literally crumbling down.
Probably because liberals were in charge of the project.
Serkit, thanks again for the new tag line... it's too funny!
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