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WHY AM I SMILING???–YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD WASTE MONEY?? HEH HEH YOUR A PIKER COMPARED TO ME —HERE’S JUST SOME OF YOUR “STIMULAAS” MONEY…..“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think!â€** Adolf Hitler
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The 2 billion stimulus bill that was supposed to rescue the American economy instead mired it in billions of ill-advised spending, two GOP senators charged Tuesday.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, issued their latest report on the wasteful spending in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Their report cites some 100 cases of wasted stimulus money. The senators report that "misdirected government spending" has actually hurt small businesses in some cases by pulling them away from more productive activity.
Coburn and McCain provided several examples of legislative pork and wasteful spending in their "Summertime Blues" report, which is subtitled "100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues."
The Citizens Against Government Waste watchdog organization hailed the study on Tuesday. "President Obama talks incessantly about wasteful government spending and reining in the budget deficit," CAGW President Tom Schatz said in a statement, "yet his policies do the opposite and end up spending more taxpayer money than any previous president."
The top 10 most wasteful projects, according to the senators’ report:
1. Over half a million dollars was spent to replace the windows in a visitor center at Mount St. Helens. The only problem is that center closed nearly three years ago due to lack of use.
2. Three-quarters of a million dollars went to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to create a computerized dance-choreography program. The university’s overhead is 44 percent of the grant, the report stated.
3. million was allocated for the North Shore Connector, which provides light rail transportation to a casino and two sports stadiums in Pittsburgh. In February 2009 Gov. Ed Rendell, a Democrat, called the project a "tragic mistake."
4. .3 million for the construction of two fire stations in San Antonio, Texas. The senators report the city was about to build the stations itself when the federal funding came along. Since then, compliance with federal regulations has caused so many delays no one is sure now when the stations will be built, they say.
5. Some .2 million was set aside to convert an abandoned train station into a museum in Glassboro, N.J. Federal authorities provided 0,000 to buy the structure in 2002, but little or no work has been done there. Now they’re going to invest another million to change the graffiti-riddled station, which was built in 1860, into a "museum and welcome center."
6. Nearly million is going to the California Academy of Sciences to send researchers to island in the Southwest Indian Ocean and to East Africa to photograph ants. The pictures will be posted on a Web site devoted to ants.
7. A .8 million road project in Ohio is being built so close to a pastor’s house that it has cracked his foundation, and a massive crane has struck his front porch twice.
8. In 2004, the federal government provided 1,000 to refurbish the old Fitchburg Furnace building in Fitchburg, Ky. The treasurer of the Friends of Fitchburg organization, however, says much of that money was lost due to "bad stewardship of money." Now, thanks to the stimulus, the project is receiving another 0,000.
9. In Kern County, Calif., the government is investing 8 million for a power plant to "generate more environmentally friendly electricity by capturing carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels." It’s hard to see how the money will stimulate the economy … groundbreaking isn’t scheduled until December 2011.
10. Folks in Boynton, Okla., are perplexed because their town won ,298 to build a quarter-mile long sidewalk. The new sidewalk leads to a ditch, and replaces one still in good condition that was built just five years ago.
The report also highlights two controversial studies of primates. Georgia State University researchers won 7,462 to compare how monkeys and chimpanzees respond to "distributional inequality" and "unfairness." Another ,623 went to Wake Forest University to study how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine.
“The President promised that 90 percent of the jobs created would be in the private sector and that unemployment would drop to 8 percent, but the only positive job creation has been in the public sector, as private sector unemployment has risen to 9.5 percent,†said CAGW President Tom Schatz. “The administration’s spokespersons have been all over the board on jobs creation numbers, claiming anywhere from 640,000 to 2 million; yet the numbers show more than 3.4 million jobs have been lost since President Obama promised to create more than 3 million jobs when he announced the stimulus package 18 months ago. While touting the stimulus as part of the effort to get the country out of the Great Recession, all it has done is help to create the Great Debt.â€
The 74-page report scrutinized 100 stimulus projects. A news report by CNBC highlighted the fact that the study “spotlights everything from federal stimulus money that went to study the effects of cocaine on monkeys to dollars that went to construction projects that blocked access to local businesses – which laid off employees as a result.â€
“President Obama talks incessantly about wasteful government spending and reining in the budget deficit, yet his policies do the opposite and end up spending more taxpayer money than any previous President. In fact, President Obama and Congress have increased discretionary spending by 84 percent,†continued Schatz. “The stimulus is part of a large down payment on a long-term legacy of fiscal woe, as the national debt will nearly double in the next 10 years. In the prescient words of CAGW co-founder J. Peter Grace, ‘we’re mortgaging our children’s future…we’re robbing piggy banks, we’re taxing our defenseless children without representation. … It’s unforgivable.’â€
Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government.
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United States Secretary of War George H. Dern at the Inauguration of the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines on the steps of the Legislative Building, Manila, Philippines, November 15, 1935
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George Dern was designated by US President Franklin Roosevelt as his representative for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines on November 15, 1935
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