Examples of Stimulus Spending

[red states rule]

So Dems are trying to figure out why the sluch fund stimulus bill has not put people to work - and talking about a second stimulus bill

Well here are some examples of what our tax dollars were spent on, and I wonder why Dems are puzzled

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A contract worth nearly $6 million in stimulus funds was awarded by the Obama adminstration to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that a contract worth $5.97 million, part of the $787 billion stimulus Congress passed this year, helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.


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The digital television advertising campaign ranked as No. 3 on the list of 100 projects that GOP senators on Tuesday highlighted as “pure waste” in the billions of stimulus funds spent this year.

At the top of the GOP list is a $5 million grant from the Department of Energy to create a geothermal energy system for the Oak Ridge City Center shopping mall in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The main problem with the project, say Republicans, is the fact the mall has been losing tenants for years and is mostly empty.

GOP senators also blasted a $1.57 million grant to Penn State University to search for fossils in Argentina and a $100,000 award to a liberal-leaning theater in Minnesota for socially conscious puppet shows.

Two million dollars in stimulus money went to build a replica railroad as a tourist attraction in Carson City, Nev.

A dinner cruise company based in Chicago received nearly $1 million in funds to combat terrorism.

Half a million dollars went to Arizona State University to study the genetic makeup of ants to determine distinctive roles in ant colonies; $450,000 went to the University of Arizona to study the division of labor in ant colonies.

The State University of New York at Buffalo won $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana. The National Institutes of Health got $219,000 in funds to study whether female college students are more likely to “hook up” after drinking alcohol.

The University of Hawaii collected $210,000 to study the learning patterns of honeybees, and $700,000 went to help crab fishermen in Oregon recover lost crab pots.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...-from-stimulus

[KarlMarx]

This summer the sidewalks for about 2 or 3 blocks on our main street had new curbs put in... but just at the corners of the block. That probably gainfully employed a dozen people for about 2-3 weeks. I'm sure they're all unemployed now.

[red states rule]

This summer the sidewalks for about 2 or 3 blocks on our main street had new curbs put in... but just at the corners of the block. That probably gainfully employed a dozen people for about 2-3 weeks. I'm sure they're all unemployed now.

This entire stimulus plan has been nothing more then grand theft of our tax money.

It would have been better to mail each taxpayer a check for $100,000. At least the money would have been spent and the economy would have had more bang for bucks