Pork Report November 30, 2009: Stimulus Snafus Edition
by The Pork ReportTens of thousands of TSA screeners to receive government bonuses, including millions of dollars paid to more than 10,000 who have been rated poorly
Government bailout watch: Despite receiving $5.5 billion in stimulus funds, Government Services Administration’s backlog of deferred maintenance projects now totals $8.8 billion and the agency is proposing billions of dollars in new projects
As stimulus money doubles Wisconsin’s weatherization budget, a review finds weatherization work done on hundreds of low-income homes failed to meet federal standards; Inspectors found projects done in a way that could threaten the safety of residents or did not save enough energy
Stimulus funds pay to replace “unattractive” streetlights; The new lights “aren’t especially energy-efficient, and the old ones work”
Federal Reserve tries theater ads to improve its image
Las Vegas’ $4.1 million housing plan built on federal stimulus money stalled over squabbles about how to hand out the money and to whom
Illinois using eminent domain to obtain private property to build a bike path intended to be funded with federal stimulus dollars
IRS employees bought unauthorized first-class plane tickets
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I am shocked! SHOCKED, I say!
The "stimulus" represents that largest theft of tax dollars in the history of the world. Unfortunately, it will pale in comparison to the theft of Americans' saving through the devaluation of the dollar. Not many people are aware that the Obama administration has *doubled* the money supply in less than a year. That means that those green-backs that you have saved will soon be worth 1/2 of what they were worth. If Obama were intentionally trying to destroy the U.S., I am not sure what he would be doing differently.
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Interesting that the GOP gets a pass here once more. Btw, want to know what the Tea Parties Founder thinks?
http://caivn.org/article/2009/11/30/tea-party-co-...
Obama is yet another puppet for the New World Order — George Soros and Henry Kissinger — and it's all about destorying US soveringty, and our freedom….cause they want to control our hard earned riches… through the destruction of our economy and thye US dollar.
Guess what — they have almost acheived their goals. What are we going to do about it?????
Hitler did that before WWII. Germany's economy had been destroyed by WW I, inflation was rampet. The Papiermark was the currency at the time & was extremely devalued by over printing. In the 1930's, actually a little before then, the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly called the Nazi Party, came into power. They continued to defund the Papiermark & introduced their own currency, the Reichmark. It was to the point that 1 Reichmark= 10 Trillion Papiermark. As how this applies to our Narcissist & Thief, many people in the financial world has said that his actions may be deliberate as to mandate a new currency, as what the Nazis did in Germany.
This is not surprising. After the ACORN story broke out America is waking up to the grim reality that we've been funding…rewarding inefficient and wasteful government for generations. We're tipping high for poor performance. Lovely. Welcome socialism.
No, they don't. This is not just a one party thing. Both parties have been getting hammered over this. Actually, every party has gotten hammered over this dating back to the Whigs & the Democratic-Republican Party that our current two parties derived from. The difference now is that it took over 230yrs to build up our debt to $6Trillion (that hit in 2002). It has more that doubled since then so we rip on G.W. about this as well. What we are complaining about now is that B.O. is spending even faster & printing more cash than any other President. It is setting up for a massive financial disaster with a worthless currency &, when the Fed stops artificially holding interest rates down, interest rates pushing 200% as to reclaim all the loos currency that has been produced (that is if the government keeps the Dollar).
Man I need to start proofreading my posts. Somebody please tell me that I made some kind of sense.
I have seen worse Indy, you are ok. I get the point. And you are right.
Besides, I have grown use to bad grammar and awful spelling in newspapers. You got your point across.
RE: TSA Raises & Bonuses
This is totally appalling. Marginally educated people getting outstanding raises with top notch benefits while millions are out of work and taking cuts of 10% or more while government dolts get raises when air traffic is at a multi-year low? This is yet one more example of government waste and greed. TSA officials should be terminated for this fraudulent waste of taxpayers monies.
And if he WEREN'T planning on collapsing the dollar, what makes anyone in their sane mind think we could afford even 30% interest rates let alone anything higher during a recession with earth-shattering tax and spending, unless they were just planning on the global dollar?
Why not just have to Post Office hire another million people? It might prove to be less wasteful than the projects they've come up with.
It's a sad state of affairs when graft, greed, and incomptence describe the US government in general.
I'll believe there's a financial crisis when the government begins shutting down entire agencies. In fact, that would be a fantastic hidden benefit of a total collapse. Almost worth the pain, IMO.
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Good thing most people on this site are conservatives and not part of the GOP, and yes there is a difference. True conservatives want less taxes and less government spending more than anything else right now and both major parties have been doing that for some time now. Bush ran up our debt and now President Obama is just as bad with it if not worse. Our government is acting like some kind of crazy teenager that stole their parent's credit card is maxing out the credit limit on it and unless the parents do something about it soon they're gonna be in a lot of trouble for it. Comprende?
He needs a crisis to force more socialism on us. So he implodes our free market system by crippling the dollar then comes to our rescue with a new system that will save us all. And as he spends us into this crisis, he paints himself as Robin Hood giving out billions here and billions there. I think he can do this with or without a Democrat majority in congress…
Liberal socialist will tell you this is an absurd notion. But then again they are the same people that will tell you global warming is a "settled science."
I for one am not drinking their kool-aid…
… That's why I converted a bunch of $$ into foreign currency!
And NObama has STILL not done anything to recover the wasted $$ in medicaid that he admits is there. Why? Because he doesn't care.
I'll second that!
Our Great Leader and his Almighty Administration see all this money as theirs to do what they want. They forget that it's OUR MONEY that they're wasting and it's US that he's PISSING OFF! Who am I kidding? They didn't forget… THEY DON'T CARE!
Imagine that. A small group of insulated, ivy league educated bureaucrats in Washington can't figure out how to spend We The People's tax money better than we can.
Who would have thunk?
Agreed!
The second amendment looks better and better
When I took HS journalism, I was told that papers write to a third grade level. Now I think the third graders write the stories, and the second graders edit them. No self thought and bloated opinion passing as news.