100 wasteful, wacky projects included in the President’s “stimulus” program

That "stimulus" money is burning a hole in Obama's pocket.

Oklahoma’s Republican Senator Tom Coburn is tight with a dollar. His dollar. Your dollar. Everybody’s dollar. He’s come up with a list of “stimulus” projects that fritter away your hard-earned taxes.

The Senator didn’t compile this list on his own. He collected stories from local newspapers that questioned how stimulus dollars were being spent on projects in their areas. 


Here are some of the wasteful, wacky projects scheduled for funding in the “stimulus” program:

• $840,000 to repair a bridge in Portage County, Wisconsin, that carries just 260 vehicles a day – mostly to an isolated saloon and a country club.
 

• $1.3 million to Solon Township, Michigan to help pay for a wastewater treatment plant local residents don’t want. There’s no plan for the plant and local support for it is questionable. 

• $3.4 million for an underground wildlife road crossing on U.S. Highway 27 for turtles and other wildlife in Lake Jackson, Florida. (A spokesman for the Florida Transportation Department said the project is needed for safety because turtles hit by vehicles can become flying projectiles. Seriously. He said that.)
• $1.5 million in stimulus money to partially fund a new wastewater treatment plant in Perkins, Oklahoma. The new plant was originally scheduled to cost $5 million, but strings attached to the “stimulus” money will increase the cost to $7.2 million. As a result of the cost increases, the city will be forced to borrow the additional money and increase utility taxes by 60% to pay for it.

• $300 road signs to be placed at construction sites to inform motorists that the project is being paid for by the “stimulus” money. 

• $2.2 million to intall skylights in Montana’s state-run liquor warehouse.

We would like to propose an additional program:

$7.75 million to study the impact on rodents when money is pounded down rat holes.

Source: CNSnews.com