If Arizona Senator John McCain had shown a fraction of the gumption he’s shown this week, he might be President now.
If Arizona Senator John McCain had shown a fraction of the gumption he’s shown this week, he might be President now.
“I’m saying to the Tea Partiers this morning, ‘grab your pitchforks let’s stand up against this, it can be stopped,’” he said of the Omnibus Spending Bill during a Fox News interview on Thursday.
Near the end of the interview, he issued the same battle cry, “Grab the pitchforks and come to Capitol Hill, Tea Partiers.”
Then he led the conservatie troops into battle yesterday and defeated the obscene Democrat bill.
CBS News’ Mark Knoller asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if he really thought members of Congress would read the 1924-page Omnibus Obamabus Spending Bill. The White House Press corps laughed at his ludicrous answer.
CBS News’ Mark Knoller asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs if he really thought members of Congress would read the 1924-page Omnibus Obamabus Spending Bill. The White House Press corps laughed at his ludicrous answer.
Knoller: This 1924-pages. Do you worry that this could gum up the works a bit? Gibbs: I just think it means a lot of people will be up late reading between now and, say, the 22nd or 23rd. Knoller: Who is gonna read that? Gibbs: As I noticed during the healthcare debate, that is a big thing. I assume, I assume many members up on Capitol Hill. Knoller: Really?
(Laughter) Gibbs: I take ‘em at their word. I take ‘em at their word.
It is impossible – absolutely impossible – to believe that anyone in the White House press corps still takes this guy seriously.
The Washington State Department of Health developed this moronic ad campaign. They spent good money, money the citizens of Washington worked hard to earn, on a commercial called – are you ready? – Washyourhandsington!
Wow. Just wow. This is what passes for rational government spending in the Age of Obama.
The Washington State Department of Health developed this moronic ad campaign. They spent good money, money the citizens of Washington worked hard to earn, on a commercial called – are you ready? – Washyourhandsington!
We just hope they washed their hands after pissing away all that money.
Watch and be amazed that some bureaucrat thought this was a good idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOj3rku0lrA
Video Transcript:
Music:
We love soap so much, we scrub for fun.
We are WashYourHandsington (clap clap)
Yes we are WashYourhandsington (clap clap)
Announcer: Visit Washyourhandsington where people wash their hands, cover their cough, and get the flu vaccine
Music:
This is the state of the evergreen
And impeccable hygiene (clap clap)
We love it when our hands are clean (clap clap)
Announcer: WashYourhandsingtonians are always friendly and germ-free.
They love to give high-fivers, not high fevers.
Music:
We cover our coughs, every single one
We are WashYourHandsington (cough clap)
Yes we are WashYourhandsington (clap clap)
Announcer: Get Vaccinated. Stop the flu. Brought to you by the Washington State Department of Health.
The National Science Foundation gave a $141,002 federal stimulus grant to Montana State University to fund a six-week, student trip to Hangzhou, China, to study dinosaur eggs and other fossils.
The Washington Examiner called this the Outrage of the Day. We can’t disagree.
"These are dinosaur eggs, class. They look like rocks. Now let's go explore Chinese culture."
WHO: The National Science Foundation
WHAT: Gave a $141,002 federal stimulus grant to Montana State University to fund a six-week, student trip to Hangzhou, China, to study dinosaur eggs and other fossils.
WHY IT’S AN OUTRAGE: The students found ample time to experience Chinese culture and explore on taxpayers’ money, but the dinosaur eggs did not hatch any new jobs
We would assume that the phrase “experience Chinese culture” includes a little Schezwan Pork, pot stickers and combo fried rice washed down with a couple bottles of Tsingtao beer. Maybe more than a couple. After all, a day studying Chinese dinosaur eggs is exhausting.
“Do you still have those little foo-foo drinks with the umbrellas? Do the waitresses still deliver them poolside? Will you accept a government credit card? Perfect. Let’s go ahead and make the reservations.”
“Do you still have those little foo-foo drinks with the umbrellas? Do the waitresses still deliver them poolside? Will you accept a government credit card? Perfect. Let’s go ahead and make the reservations.”
The Washington Examiner has the disgusting story of waste piled on top of waste:
Piña coladas for everyone! When the rigorous round of public and private meetings are over, government investigators will discuss their findings poolside.
Members of a key panel created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill, have scheduled a meeting on November 22 to consider ways to prevent “fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds.” The meeting will be held at the super-luxe Ritz Carlton Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.
The group is the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, a sub-committee of the larger Recovery Accountability and Transparency board (sometimes known as the RAT board). The stimulus bill set up the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, or RIAP, to make recommendations to identify and prevent waste of the bill’s $814 billion in stimulus spending.
“The purpose of the November 22, 2010 meeting is to allow the RIAP to have an open dialogue, with input from the public, on issues relating to fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds,” says a notice in the Federal Register. Specifically, participants in the meeting will discuss various techniques to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, as well as larger issues of transparency and public awareness. Portions of the meeting will be open to the public, while other parts will be closed.
It doesn’t get much ritzier than the Ritz-Carlton. The Editor was once booted from the Ritz-Carlton in Laguna Niguel, California for attempting to wear jeans…gasp…at dinner.
Not to worry. If that were to happen in this case, we’re confident members of the stimulus waste panel would immediately rush out and purchase new pants on your dime.
The following line that reveals just how out of touch with reality Jerry Brown really is. “Of course,” Brown says, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”
Every other blog that’s run this video clip has focused on the first part, where former and future California Governor Moonbeam pledges to sign a bill entitling every illegal alien in the tarnished Golden State to attend college.
Far as we’re concerned, though, it’s the following line that reveals just how out of touch with reality Brown really is.
“Of course,” Brown says, “I’m not going to sign any bills until we get the budget solved and that may take me a couple of months.”
Governor Moonbeam, indeed. It’s taken the state decades to get $30 billion in debt. It’s reduced two consecutive governors to blithering idiots. The state is controlled by the public employee unions to whom Brown is beholden. The legislature is controlled by lunatic leftists who refuse to cut a penny in spending. And this lying sack of excrement says it may take “a couple of months” to solve the problem. Note that it may take him a couple of months. Why this guy’s such an economic wizard that he may just get the whole thing wrapped up in a couple weeks. With a little luck, maybe just a day or two.
California is about to get what it deserves. Unfortunately, the state’s few remaining conservatives will be taken down along with the liberals who not only caused the problem, but continue to exacerbate it by electing leftist wackos like Brown.
The Honorable Mr. Phil Hare wants you to know that the national debt is nothing but a myth. Like unicorns. Like the Easter bunny. Like Democrat fiscal responsibility.
The Honorable Mr. Phil Hare wants you to know that the national debt is nothing but a myth. Like unicorns. Like the Easter bunny. Like Democrat fiscal responsibility.
On one hand, Hare says our debt and deficits are mere myths. On the other hand, he says we need more of it.
“And we will see a terrible price that we will pay years down the road for letting our children down when they need us the absolute most. I’m not going to be part of that. So every minute I have here is going to be spent trying to debunk the myth that this country’s in debt and we just can’t spend.”
Hare’s kind of like a kid who just learned that there’s no Santa Claus, but puts milk and cookies next to the tree on Christmas Eve just in case.
Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first letters.
Was anyone paying attention? Did you happen to note the exact moment when democracy was replaced by bureaucracy in the United States?
The New York Post has the latest example of federal bureaucrats forcing taxpayers to piss away their money:
WARNING: IT'S UNSAFE TO READ THIS CAPTION BECAUSE IT'S IN ALL-CAPS
Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than a century to ones that capitalize only the first letters.
Changing BROADWAY to Broadway will save lives, the Federal Highway Administration contends in its updated Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, citing improved readability.
At $110 per sign, it will also cost the state $27.6 million, city officials said.
…The new regulations also require a change in font from the standard highway typeface to Clearview, which was specially developed for this purpose.
As a result, even numbered street signs will have to be replaced.
…The Highway Administration acknowledged that New York and other states “opposed the change, and suggested that the use of all upper-case letters remain an option,” noting that “while the mixed-case words might be easier to read, the amount of improvement in legibility did not justify the cost.”
Damn the expense. The letter of the law must be followed. But only if it’s upper and lower case.
Now that Democrats have spent all the money, they’re forced to cannibalize their own programs to fund newer, bigger programs.
Now that Democrats have spent all the money, they’re forced to cannibalize their own programs to fund newer, bigger programs. And as a result, competing groups of leeches Democrat constituents are at each other’s throats.
Fox News has details of the tragic tale:
Now that Democrats have spent all the money, they're forced to cannibalize their own programs
House members convened Tuesday and passed the multibillion-dollar bailout bill for cash-strapped states that provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or ensure that more teachers won’t be let go before the new school year begins, keeping more than 160,000 teachers on the job, the Obama administration says.
But the bill also requires that $12 billion be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to help fund the new bill, prompting some Democrats to cringe at the notion of cutting back on one necessity to pay for another. The federal assistance program currently helps 41 million Americans.
Arguably one of the most outspoken opponents on the Democratic side is Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who has blasted the move as “a bitter pill to swallow” but still voted yes.
“I fought very hard for the food assistance money in the Recovery Act, and the fact is that participation in the food stamps program has jumped dramatically with the economic crisis, from 31.1 million persons to 38.2 million just in one year,” DeLauro said in an e-mail sent to FoxNews.com. “But I know that states across the nation and my own state of Connecticut also desperately need these resources to save jobs and avoid Draconian cuts to essential services for low income families.”
Of course, if these were Republican constituencies battling for bucks, we would be bombarded with headline after headline screaming “Civil War Within Republican Party.”
Michele Bachmann, the Republican Representative that lefties love to hate, told Sean Hannity democrats will be be using your tax dollars to campaign against ideas and candidates you believe in.
Michele Bachmann, the Republican Representative that lefties love to hate, told Sean Hannity that the Democrats’ latest $26 billion bailout is nothing more than a source of funding that will allow public employee unions to run ads against the Republicans in the upcoming elections.
In effect, they’ll be using your tax dollars to campaign against ideas and candidates you believe in.
“Coincidence,” Nancy Pelosi would probably respond, “It’s just a coincidence that all that money went to public employee unions.”
Now that the government is done studying male Vietnamese prostitutes, drunken Chinese hookers and the sex lives of truck drivers, they’ve decided it’s time to move on to drug addicts.
Guys addicted to power spend your tax dollars studying guys addicted to cocaine
The U.S. government has spent $410,625 to study the effects of teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts.
“Our clinical experience and pilot studies suggest that Integrative Meditation from Chinese medicine may help clients engage in treatment, reduce cravings/withdrawal symptoms, and increase treatment retention, which appear missed by a typical behavior therapy,” says the official description of the project published by the National Institutes of Health.
What they should really be studying is the idiotic spending in Washington, DC. That’s something that seems to be really addictive.
Barack Obama and the Democrat party are using millions of your tax dollars to put up road signs praising themselves just before the midterm elections. Oh, sure, the signs are disguised as government neutral, but make no mistake, they are campaign posters.
Barack Obama and the Democrat party are using millions of your tax dollars to put up road signs praising themselves just before the midterm elections. Oh, sure, the signs are disguised as government neutral, but make no mistake, they are campaign posters.
It’s egregious enough that even ABC News felt compelled to report the story:
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work.”
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there’s a 10′ x 11′ road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there’s another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That’s how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is “Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and is “Putting America Back to Work.” The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.
The federal government has spent $550,496 on a project that involved conducting “focus groups and in-depth interviews” with American long-haul truck drivers to learn about their sex lives.
Truck drivers aren't just filling their tanks at those roadside truck stops
The federal government has spent $550,496 on a project that involved conducting “focus groups and in-depth interviews” with American long-haul truck drivers to learn about their sex lives in order to assess their risk of contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted infections.
The project has failed to find any instances of HIV among the truck drivers studied.
The government may have worded some of the questions a bit too formally. We would suggest that they would get more honest answers in the future if they simply rephrase the questions by using terminology with which the truck drivers can identify. For example:
Question #1: Have you ever hooked your big rig up to a strange trailer Question #3: Have you ever been rear-ended at a truckstop? Question #7: Have you ever made a long haul delivery down the chocolate highway? Question #12: Have you ever gone the wrong way up a one-way street?
Last year, we reported that congress had authorized $2.6 million to train Chinese hookers how to drink. Now we’re spending another $1.44 million to study male prostitutes in Vietnam.
The world's largest, most expensive whore house likes to fund research into prostitutes
Last year, we reported that congress had authorized $2.6 million to train Chinese hookers how to drink. Now we’re spending another $1.44 million to study male prostitutes in Vietnam.
You ask, “Why congress would fund so many research projects on prostitutes?” And we’d answer, “Professional courtesy.”
CNS News reports the screwed up story:
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has so far awarded $1.44 million in federal funds to a project that, among other things, is estimating the size of the population and examining the “social milieu” of male prostitutes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
“In Study 1, formative ethnography will be used to describe the settings, venues, and overall social milieu in which male sex work is being situated,” says the NIH abstract for the grant. “In Study 2, we will conduct a Capture-Recapture Survey to estimate the size of the male sex worker population in each city.”
The grant project began in July 2008 and is scheduled to run through March 2012. In fiscal year 2008, the NIH awarded the project $534,201 in federal funds. In fiscal year 2009, the NIH awarded the project $465,974; and in fiscal year 2010, the NIH awarded the project $442,340. So far, a total of $1,442,515 in federal funds have been awarded to the project.
What are the odds that this research was funded while Larry Craig was still in office?
CNBCs Rick Santelli, who is often called the Father of the Tea Party, is at it again. This time he loudly and emphatically and repeatedly says the two little words so many of us want Washington, DC to hear.
CNBCs Rick Santelli, who is often called the Father of the Tea Party, is at it again. This time he loudly and emphatically and repeatedly says the two little words so many of us want Washington, DC to hear.
Barack Obama sent a letter to leaders of the G-20 nations urging them to keep the printing presses running overtime so they can continue their crazy Keynesian spending spree. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said “Ain’t gonna happen.” Of course, she said it in German, so that may be a rough translation.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks askance at Barack Obama's discredited Keynesian economics
Barack Obama sent a letter to leaders of the G-20 nations urging them to keep the printing presses running overtime so they can continue their crazy Keynesian spending spree. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said “Ain’t gonna happen.” Of course, she said it in German, so that may be a rough translation.
Germany’s English language newspaper The Local reports:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel directly contradicted US President Barack Obama on Saturday, saying spending cutbacks were now needed following the spate of throwing money at the global economic crisis.
Referring to the G20 summit in Canada next weekend, Merkel said in a videotaped message that “we are going to discuss when to quit the phase of short-term measures and go on to lasting budget consolidation.”
Such a move was “urgently necessary, in the view of the Europeans and particularly of Germany,” she said.
Obama urged the world’s leading economies Friday to avoid scaling back government spending too quickly or risk derailing the global recovery.
“We worked exceptionally hard to restore growth; we cannot falter or lose strength now,” Obama said in a letter to G20 leaders ahead of a June 26-27 summit in Toronto.
“Our highest priority in Toronto must be to safeguard and strengthen the recovery,” Obama said in the letter dated June 16, but released Friday amid concerns about the pace of the global recovery.
“She said nine,” Joe Biden whispered to Obama. “I think she’s going to spend nine times as much next year just like we are.”
The cost of the 2010 census has already soared 325% higher than the cost of the 2000 census. There are a lot of reasons, but let’s start with the most obvious one. They hired 550,000 census workers.
How is the census pissing away your money? Let us enumerate the ways.
The cost of the 2010 census has already soared 325% higher than the cost of the 2000 census. There are a lot of reasons, but let’s start with the most obvious one. They will hire 1.4 million people.
That’s more people than work in the airline industry, electronics and appliance stores, the oil and gas business, the railroad industry, and just a hair fewer than the number who work for all of America’s utilities combined.
The Examiner.com reveals some of the other eye-popping expenses:
3.8 million people were recruited to conduct the census and a total of 1.4 million will be hired.
Sponsorship of a NASCAR Team.
425,000,000 direct mail pieces printed in 28 languages.
1.6 million pounds of paper (425,000 truckloads or 341,146 trees).
24 different TV ads.
Super Bowl ad – $2.5 Million.
An interactive website.
Teaching aids for schools.
A road tour.
Various partnerships.
Social Media
Based on its outrageous cost overruns, we humbly suggest that they change the officlal name of this operation from “the Census” to ObamaCount.
Looks like Barack Obama has only two remaining allies in his theory that you can spend your way out of debt – John Maynard Keynes, who’s been dead for 64 years, and Greece, which will soon assume economic room temperature.
We've turned our economy over to a guy who makes Bernie Madoff look like an amateur
Looks like Barack Obama has only two remaining allies in his theory that you can spend your way out of debt – John Maynard Keynes, who’s been dead for 64 years, and Greece, which will soon assume economic room temperature.
The Financial Times reports the G20’s return to reality:
The communiqué of the meeting made it clear that the G20 no longer thought that expansionary fiscal policy was sustainable or effective in fostering an economic recovery because investors were no longer confident about some countries’ public finances. “The recent events highlight the importance of sustainable public finances and the need for our countries to put in place credible, growth-friendly measures, to deliver fiscal sustainability,” the communiqué stated.
“Those countries with serious fiscal challenges need to accelerate the pace of consolidation,” it added. “We welcome the recent announcements by some countries to reduce their deficits in 2010 and strengthen their fiscal frameworks and institutions”.
These words were in marked contrast to the G20’s previous communiqué from late April, which called for fiscal support to “be maintained until the recovery is firmly driven by the private sector and becomes more entrenched”.
Translation: It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and Barack Obama is the only drunken sailor left in the bar.
Maybe it’s a good idea to give all our tax dollars to massage schools. Because at the rate we’re going, we’re all going to need a nice, relaxing massage.
Maybe it’s a good idea to give all our tax dollars to massage schools. Because at the rate we’re going, we’re all going to need a nice, relaxing massage.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the deep tissue details:
Massage and beauty schools, online universities and other for-profit colleges in Georgia and across the nation are cashing in on federal stimulus spending, collecting $2.2 billion in tuition grants for low-income students, public records show.
That represents nearly a quarter of the stimulus money spent on these grants to date.
In Georgia alone, millions of dollars are going to massage schools and beauty schools. Lord only knows how much is being spread around the rest of the country.
Because of how the government is tracking the stimulus spending, it’s impossible to break it down precisely by state. But the records show profit-making schools that have campuses or corporate headquarters in Georgia have received more than $550 million of these stimulus funds.
Among them are University of Phoenix, American InterContinental University, Royal Beauty Careers and Atlanta School of Massage. Beauty and massage schools with ties to Georgia have received $3.3 million through the stimulus program alone.
There may be stimulus involved, but this will not be a happy ending massage.
After the majority party voted to approve a raise for federal employees, Rep. Michele Bachmann went to the floor of the House and ripped them each a new one. And just for good measure, she ripped a few big spending Republicans, too.
Apparently, the Democrats haven’t read a newspaper lately, because they don’t seem to know there’s a friggin’ recession going on.
After the majority party voted to approve a raise for federal employees, Rep. Michele Bachmann went to the floor of the House and ripped them each a new one. And just for good measure, she ripped a few big spending Republicans, too.
As Bachmann explained, this raise for overpaid federal employees will add another $2 billion to the already obscene deficit.
We’d say “It’s only money”, but to be more accurate we’ll amend that and say, “It’s only your money.”
That’s a great idea, you know, because those newfangled energy efficient bulbs will pay for themselves in no time. No time at all. What’s that? It’ll take ten years for them to pay for themselves. Oh, fer Christ’s sake.
The lights are on, but nobody's home
That’s a great idea, you know, because those newfangled energy efficient bulbs will pay for themselves in no time. No time at all.
What’s that? It’ll take ten years for them to pay for themselves. Oh, fer Christ’s sake.
CNSnews.com reports the story:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday to unveil new light fixtures in the House cafeteria. The light fixtures cost $140,000 and will take almost 10 years to pay off in saved energy.
Ten years. The payoff on this is going to take ten friggin’ years. Got that? The story continues:
Ayers said that the new light fixtures and window shades were installed in the cafeteria, located in the basement of the Rayburn House Office Building, because the LED [light emitting diode] light fixtures have become much less expensive.
“It’s now becoming much more affordable, so we’re sort of kicking the tires on it for the moment. It seems to work terrific. It’s got great energy savings, and it’s got – we think – great lighting quality, and the price of the light fixtures just in the last year has come down significantly.”
Of course, we’re just swimming in spare cash right now, so this is the perfect time for Pelosi to blow $140,000 on light bulbs that will take ten years to pay for themselves.
Dim bulb. And make no mistake, when we say that we’re referring to the Speaker herself.
We love new New Jersey Governor Chris Christie so much that we want to have his pudgy little baby. Not only is he doing exactly what he said he’d do during the campaign – slash spending – but he has somehow managed to get the state’s top Democrats to back his actions.
We love new New Jersey Governor Chris Christie so much that we want to have his pudgy little baby.
Not only is he doing exactly what he said he’d do during the campaign – slash spending – but he has somehow managed to get the state’s top Democrats to back his actions.
Even more startling, the first bills he’s signing reduce benefits to public-sector pensions. And instead of doing it behind closed doors and away from the cameras, he’s holding big, public ceremonies and then posting the videos YouTube.
How much is Christie saving the citizens of New Jersey? As he says in this video, “On Senate Bill 2, over the next 15 years, $3 billion. On Senate Bill 4, $5 billion dollars over the next 15 years and most immediately about $315 million for the upcoming fiscal year for local governments and school boards. And on Senate Bill 4, capping some of the abuses that have really outraged the public regarding sick leave and other issues that finally we’ll be getting to put a cap on those things that have so angered the public and made them think that government was not really working to their benefit but working for someone else’s.”
Way to go, Governor Christie. You appear to be everything that lying sack of excrement Arnold Schwarzenegger told Californians he was going to be.
We never expect much from an government agency. In fact, when it comes to the Census Bureau, we’re just hoping it’s better at counting people than it is at counting money.
We're 3000% sure the Census Bureau is pissing away your tax dollars
We never expect much from an government agency. In fact, when it comes to the Census Bureau, we’re just hoping it’s better at counting people than it is at counting money.
Fox News tells the tale of incomparable counting incompetence:
The U.S. Census is well into conducting its constitutionally mandated 2010 count but the exercise is already running over budget.
Taxpayers are footing the bill of $14.7 billion for 10 years of Census counting. That price tag supports 500 local offices and a peak staff of 1.4 million workers.
But some cost overruns have already plagued this Census, like when tens of thousands of workers fanned out between March and July of last year to verify addresses — a process known as “address canvassing.” The Census Bureau, federal auditors later found, ran 25 percent over budget for a total cost of $444 million.
“When I arrived in July, the findings of that overrun were just emerging,” Census Director Robert Groves said. “There was an underestimation of just the workload — how many houses we had to go to.”
Auditors also found the Census Bureau provided training to some 15,000 workers who either worked not at all or less than a single day — at a total cost of $5.5 million.
It was either that or 5.5 million workers at a cost of $15,000. The Census Bureau isn’t sure which.
Why, lord a’mighty, these Washington, DC folks spend tax dollars like Monopoly money. Good thing we have an aggressive cost cutter like Barack Obama in the White House.
Why, lord a’mighty, these Washington, DC folks spend tax dollars like Monopoly money. Good thing we have an aggressive cost cutter like Barack Obama in the White House.
Sure, those states are hard hit. But Obama announced his largesse in Las Vegas was to help the hardest hit of all, poll-challenged Nevada Senator Harry Reid.
Last week President Obama warned Americans not to spend money like the federal government does. Specifically, don’t go to Las Vegas and bet it all on one spin of the roulette wheel.
Then this week he traveled to Las Vegas and said, “We’re going to spend another $1.5 billion on another wacky liberal scheme to save your house. And by the way, vote for Harry Reid.” OK, perhaps that’s not an exact quote, but it’s a reasonable approximation.
Obama’s move, detailed by aides in advance of his town hall here Friday, is the latest by a White House determined to show it is helping families rebound from a deep recession. The downturn is taking an election-year toll on Obama’s party as voter frustration builds.
Obama was to announce that housing finance agencies in the five hardest-hit states in the housing crisis will receive $1.5 billion to help spur local solutions to the problem. Those five are Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and Nevada.
Sure, those states are hard hit. But Obama announced his largesse in Las Vegas was to help the hardest hit of all, poll-challenged Nevada Senator Harry Reid.
This guy has poll numbers that make Obama’s look positively robust. And $1.5 billion of your tax dollars is a mere pittance if it will help keep one Democrat in office.
