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***NEPatriot*** · 06-18-2009, 12:39 PM

This is how Obama spent his stimulus money so that he can 'create' new jobs. Let look at some of the projects.

Sen. Coburn questions 100 stimulus projects | Washington Examiner

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a $3.4 million Florida Department of Transportation project for an "eco-passage" — an underground wildlife road crossing for turtles and other wildlife in Lake Jackson, Fla., along U.S. 27.

"Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the other side of a stimulus project,"

_A Bureau of Land Management project to study the impact wind farms have on the sage grouse population in Oregon. The proposal calls for hiring people to tag sage grouse in areas where wind farms may be built, to help determine where turbines could be located.

_$1.5 million in stimulus money for a $5 million new wastewater treatment plant in Perkins, Okla., his home state. Coburn said the stimulus money came with strings that will increase the costs. With a new total cost of $7.2 million, the city will be forced to borrow money and, as a result, utility taxes have increased by 60 percent this year, the senator said.

_Grants and loans totaling $1.3 million to Solon Township in Leelanau County, Mich., to help pay for construction of a wastewater treatment plant. Local opposition killed the project. The money will now be used for a future treatment plant, for which there is no plan and questionable local support.

_Road signs costing $300 each, being placed at construction sites to alert motorists that the project is being paid for by the stimulus money. Transportation Department spokesman Jill Zuckman said each state decides whether to use stimulus money for signs, and the cost would vary in each state.

_A $3 million project to repair taxiways at Hanscom Field, Mass., which Coburn said is for corporate jets. Richard Walsh, a spokesman for the independent state agency that runs the airport, Massport, said only 18 percent of the traffic at the airport is for corporate jets. Most of the use, 70 percent cent, is for flight students, he said.

_Montana's state-run liquor warehouse, to receive $2.2 million in stimulus cash to install skylights. The project is part of the $27.7 million the state has been awarded for energy programs.

***BelichickFan*** · 06-18-2009, 12:50 PM

Momentarily some staunch defender of the obamans will be here to say "these all create jobs". Which they do . . . temporarily. This spending is creating enourmous deficits for short term jobs. The only way the stimulus is defensible is if the jobs it creates are on going. This crap is not.

***NEPatriot*** · 06-18-2009, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BelichickFan

Momentarily some staunch defender of the obamans will be here to say "these all create jobs". Which they do . . . temporarily. This spending is creating enourmous deficits for short term jobs. The only way the stimulus is defensible is if the jobs it creates are on going. This crap is not.

Yes, it's a key word and gives Obama's supporters something to cheer.

alvinnf · 06-18-2009, 12:58 PM

Don't worry it will all work out, China bought a bunch of our debt? I'm sure paying them back won't take forever, cost a ton in interest or debase our currency though. Fill those potholes in this summer boys and don't worry when winter roles around you can just get back on welfare......

***FreeTedWilliams*** · 06-18-2009, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BelichickFan

Momentarily some staunch defender of the obamans will be here to say "these all create jobs". Which they do . . . temporarily. This spending is creating enourmous deficits for short term jobs. The only way the stimulus is defensible is if the jobs it creates are on going. This crap is not.

Create jobs for illegals, as Obama had the part that mandated that all the workers be LEGAL stripped from the porulous package

***NEPatriot*** · 06-18-2009, 01:59 PM

Obama Pledges $73 Million to Zimbabwe | 44 | washingtonpost.com

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Obama Pledges $73 Million to Zimbabwe

Here is a guy who publicly said that we were out of money and we needed to cut here and there to spend for his universal health care. Obama still finds a way to spend money as if it's not a big deal.

This guy is unbelievable.