THIS IS YOUR GOVERNMENT ON LIBERAL IDEAS!
OBAMANOMICS AT ITS WORST...SO FAR!
Remember that monumentally stupid thing passed last February called the Stimulus Bill? Yeah, the one nobody in DC managed to read before voting on or signing into law? After we had been told Hussein Hopenchange would have the most open, transparent administration in US history? That American citizens would be given time to read every bill before signing? Well, we now know we can just forget about those things. AWD read an article which exposed some of the more stupid parts of a tremendously stupid bill. Remember, our children and grandchildren and their children and their grandchildren will pay for Obama’s obscene (non)Stimulus Bill:
- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.
- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.
- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.
- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.
- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.
- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.
- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.
- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.
- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.
- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.
- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.
- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.
- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.
- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.
- $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.
- $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.
- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.
- $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.
- $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.
- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.
- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri
- $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.
- $1.3 million on government arts jobs in Maine, including $30,000 for basket makers, $20,000 for storytelling and $12,500 for a music festival.
- $71,000 for a hybrid car to be used by student drivers in Colchester, Vt., as well as a plug-in hybrid for town workers decked out with a sign touting the vehicle’s energy efficiency.
- $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.
I missed the one that gave $10 million for the shooting range/go-cart track/skeet range/golf course/honky-tonk/water park/fun-a-rama at AWD’s house. Oh yeah, that one might have actually been of use! And the geniuses in Washington wonder why Americans are so angry!
Pretty quiet around here.
But what can you say? It’s past ridiculous. Confront Murtha on his airport boondogle and he would have your legs broken if he could.
Barry O, being a Keynesian and socialist, actually believes that just the act of spending is what this economy needs.
I just hope we have trials after the dust settle.
$800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway. I bet those 20 passengers also get federal bucks to fly in/out of there as well. F’ing ridickerous.
$500,000,000,000 per year for an unconstitutional standing army and two undeclared wars.
It may be true that we are all socialists now (not me). It’s getting hard to even find a republican who thinks we should follow the constitution.
“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. ” – John Q Adams
“I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment.” -Jefferson
Heck, I would only charge $100,000 to study Syracuse University freshman women sex lives.
I love the banner ads on your site for Harry Reid! Don’t love Harry Reid at all.