After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up
The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went: (I picked my favorites)
- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
How about we let hunters pick off the rabbits for free? No rabbits – No radioactive rabbit droppings.
- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.
? – One of the richest guys on earth can’t buy his own bridge? Bill Gates makes $11 Million in about 30 seconds – let him buy his own bridge.
- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.
I am confident that Syracuse University male students would do this for free.
- $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.
Why are we paying to mate bugs? There are 50 billion bugs on the planet. We don’t need to pay for bugs.
- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.
Build a fence for a $1000 so the stupid turtles won’t cross the road.
- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.
Arlen Specter has not done anything in three decades either.
- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.
Is this to combat global climate change? I guess they will fund more sno-plows to get rid of the snow they make?
- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.
Wow, at $3333 per person that is quite a bargain!!!
- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.
I knew many college students who use to pay to study the same thing.
- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri.
$21,000 per toilet….quite an expensive dump?
Neil Stevens
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Steve Maley
Daniel Horowitz
Jake Walker
I think this could backfire bigtime
bk (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 2:18PM EST (link)Unemployment will remain around 10% through the 2010 elections. People who have been out of work will hear Democrats crowing about spending hundreds of billions of dollars of stimulus money and the average person will see nothing different.
If by chance the GOP doesn’t shoot itself in the foot, they could make a killing. “Is this the kind of hope and change you expected under the Democrats? They’ve mortgaged away your kids future – and yet more people are looking for jobs than when Barack Obama took office.”
Don't ignore that housing study
GregInFla (Diary) Tuesday, November 3rd at 11:28PM EST (link)$3000 is for each person. The remaining $333 pays for the doctor bills after the fights that break out over the $3000 each one got.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.