After flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up


	After flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up

pkronfield

11-3-2009 4:24 PM

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- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.

- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.

- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita, Kan.

- $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.

- $1.5 million for a fence to block would-be jumpers from leaping off the All-American Bridge in Akron, Ohio.

- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally fr

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11-3-2009 4:25 PM

pkronfield

Government run by the Three Stooges (Obama, Pelosi, and Reid) The fourth stooge is of course Biden.

11-3-2009 4:28 PM

pkronfield

- $1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.

- $356,000 for Indiana University to study childhood comprehension of foreign accents compared with native speech.

- $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths.

- $148,438 for Washington State University to analyze the use of marijuana in conjunction with medications like morphine.

- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri

- $3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York state.

- $1.3 million...

11-3-2009 4:28 PM

pkronfield

Now, wasn't Rush right when he called this the "Porkulus Bill" ??

11-4-2009 5:39 PM

ColoradoRight

and children yet unborn will be expected to pay the interest on this debt. I don't think we will ever, ever pay the debt

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