Not So Stimulating….
Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) is doing something that the Obama Administration has promised to do but again has failed at……
STIMULUS OVERSITE
The Senator has a list of 100 government funded under the guise of federal stimulus pieces of porkulus crap on his website. Here’s a list of the top 10…….
1. $1.5 million in “free” stimulus money for a new wastewater treatment plant results in higher utility costs for residents of Perkins, Oklahoma.
2. $1 billion for FutureGen in Mattoon, Illinois is the “biggest earmark of all time” for a power plant that may never work.
3. $15 million for “shovel-ready” repairs to little-used bridges in rural Wisconsin are given priority over widely used bridges that are structurally deficient.
4. $800,000 for little-used John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the ‘Airport for Nobody’ Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer dollars.
5. $3.4 million for a wildlife “eco-passage” in Florida to take animals safely under a busy roadway.
6. Nevada non-profit gets $2 million weatherization contract after recently being fired for same type of work.
7. $1.15 million for installation of a new guard rail for the non-existent Optima Lake in Oklahoma.
8. Nearly $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn’t been used in 30 years.
9. 10,000 dead people get stimulus checks, but the Social Security Administration blames a tough deadline.
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Sen. Coburns spotlights the $300 road signs I blogged about here and here.
10. Town of Union, New York, encouraged to spend a $578,000 grant it did not request for a homelessness problem it claims it does not have.
Read Sen. Coburn’s whole report HERE
I’m thinking the whole “Hope and Change” motto needs to change…………
FAILURE
It’s What We Do
…..or something like that…..
H/T: Michelle Malkin
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