FAIL: Stimulus Money Being Wasted!

Wow!!! Everybody needs to read this detailed Stimulus REPORT of how and where our taxpayer money was MIS-SPENT, MIS-MANAGED and WASTED!!! If this doesn't piss you off, I honestly don't know what will. This money should have been spent addressing some serious issues in our country as in HUNGER and HOMELESSNESS. Washington doesn't give a damn. Most especially the democrats who claim to be soft on the special needs of our country. BULLSH*T! Oh and wasn't the Stimulus bill SUPPOSED to be targeted for JOB CREATION?!?! Read the list and tell me how efficiently this money was spent. Our federal government MIGHT AS WELL have given this money DIRECTLY to the "PEOPLE" and then our country would have indeed been stimulated. We, the taxpayer are going to have to pay this money back anyway. Why NOT let us all enjoy it and spend it on OUR TERMS NOT THEIRS!

Please click HERE to be directed to the pdf file that reports the entire lists of meaningless wasteful government projects.

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FOX News

Stimulus Money Being Wasted

written by Steve Centanni

Tuesday August 3, 2010 at 5:26pm

Dance and ants. Dogs and dinosaurs. Windows for an abandoned building; new sidewalks replaced by newer sidewalks; and, a facelift for a fort few can reach.

According to a report released Tuesday by two Republican Senators, these are just a few of the questionable projects being funded with money from President Obama’s $862 billion dollar economic stimulus package.

One of the report’s authors, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said, “There is no question the stimulus bill has had a positive effect on the economy to a certain degree and… our criticism is, it could have had a far greater effect.”

Coburn claims common sense would dictate that stimulus money is wasted or mismanaged on the 100 projects outlined in a report he co-authored with Arizona’s John McCain titled “Summertime Blues.”

Among the projects singled out for criticism in the report:

--A half million dollars for new windows at the Mt. St. Helens visitors center in Amboy, Washington. The building has been closed since 2007 and there are no immediate plans to reopen it.

--$6.9 million dollars for repairs to an 1846 brick fort marooned on Dry Tortuga at the end the Florida Keys. Few people can visit this remote national park unless they hire a seaplane or take a four-hour round-trip boat ride.

--Creating a museum in an abandoned train station in Glasboro, NJ, at the cost of $1.2 million.

--$2 million dollars to send researchers from the California Academy of Sciences to islands in the Indian Ocean to study exotic ants.

--A study of dog domestication at Cornell University with a price tag of $296-thousand dollars.

--$141-thousand dollars to send students from Montana State University to China to study dinosaur eggs.

--$762-thousand dollars to create interactive choreography programs at the University of North Carolina. Dancers would wear electronic monitors to analyze their movements.

--$89-thousand dollars to replace sidewalks in Boynton, Oklahoma that were just replaced five years ago. One of them goes nowhere near any houses or businesses and leads directly into a ditch.

Here are some more WASTEFUL PROJECTs that have STEAM coming out of my ears!

6) $1.9 million provided for California scientists to “capture, photograph, and analyze” ants.

25) $298,543 to predict the weather on other planets.

28) $144,541 for Wake Forest University scientists to give monkeys cocaine and see what happens. Even scarier: they’re having the monkeys administer the coke themselves. No word yet if part of the cost is allocated to rolled up hundred dollar bills.

36) $712,883 to build a machine that tells jokes (presumably funnier than the ones Coburn and McCain tried to crack in this report).

38) $294,958 on a program to reduce menopausal hot flashes with yoga classes.

39) $1.2 million for research how elderly people react to playing video games.

95) $180,935 to discover a better method for freezing rat sperm.

100) $112,437 for three high school students and three college students to study alcohol in laboratories (read: pound shots out of test tubes)

Coburn and McCain claim these and other projects are misconceived and mismanaged, while creating few, if any, new jobs.

As Senator McCain put it: “The stimulus package was supposed to create jobs. Unemployment was going to be 8%. That's what the president said. That's what his chief economic advisor said. That's what the Secretary of the Treasury said when they sold this debt to the American people. It does not create jobs.

The Obama Administration disagrees. In July, the White House announced that about three million new jobs have been saved or created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as the stimulus package is officially titled.

Vice President Joe Biden insisted, “The economic initiatives that we took, they are working.”

Noting that the report from Coburn and McCain comes just months before the mid-term elections, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs suggested “Summertime Blues” isn’t really about jobs. He said, “I think… this has much more to do with politics.”