Posts Tagged ‘phantom districts’

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)

Mr. President, Where Are the Jobs?

by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)

Americans are hurting – there is no doubt.   Unemployment is at a record high and since Speaker Pelosi has been in the Speaker’s chair, 8.7 million more people are unemployed.  What’s even more frightening is that 3 million of those jobs have been lost just since the misnamed stimulus was shoved through Congress less than a year ago.  So where are the jobs?

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Earlier this week, we learned that Recovery.gov, the official Administration website charged with reporting abuse was its own worst offender.  It is full of fake stimulus jobs in fake Congressional districts.   It also shows that $3 million couldn’t even produce a single job in South Carolina’s fake 43rd district.  Somehow, $1.8 million was spent for 1.4 jobs in the fake 00 district.  This would be funny, but the money belongs to taxpayers, not the government.

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Posted Nov 20th 2009 at 6:57 am in Congress, Economics, News, Obama, Politics | 91 Comments

Veronique de Rugy

Obama to Taxpayers: America Needs More Picnic Tables

by Veronique de Rugy

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Because it wasn’t painful enough to know that the “stimulus” money is heavily used to pay for the union-inflated salaries of thousands of bureaucrats in the states, or paying for jobs in phantom districts, or even better, going to recipients who happily spent it without creating any jobs, now we can see how much of the “stimulus” money is going to pay for picnic tables or to replace the motor of a government-owned boat.

For instance, I can see now that R. J. THOMAS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC received 4 different awards totaling roughly a $110,000 in exchange for picnic tables (because we know how stimulating these are)

Contract 09/09/2009 FURNISH RECEPTACLES, GRILLS, PICNIC TABLES AND BENCHES TO MAINTAIN RECREATIONAL FACILITIES $25,518 Cherokee IA
Contract 07/29/2009 FURNISH PICNIC TABLES $30,480 Cherokee IA
Contract 07/30/2009 FURNISH & DELIVER PARK GRILLS, PICNIC TABLES & CAMPFIRE RINGS $28,533 Cherokee IA
Contract 08/04/2009 FURNISH & DELIVER PICNIC TABLES $26,018 Cherokee IA

Check out this website called Stimulus Watch. It allows you to search for contracts and grant awards by state and city, by awarding agency, or by recipient. And they will even have a keyword search soon. The really cool aspect of the site is that once you find an award that interests you, you can vote on whether you are satisfied with it or not, add to the wiki description of the project, and join in the conversation about the award in the comments section.

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Posted Nov 19th 2009 at 1:29 pm in Economics, Obama, Politics | 80 Comments