Topic: another epic stimulus failure

[Predator Don]

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20111003/NEWS0201/310020028/E-Tenn-truck-stop-got-stimulus-money-despite-bankruptcy?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE



I'm guessing there was about as much vetting of this project as obama. Incredible waste of taxpayers money.

[Libertas]

Especially when the Pelosi-Reid Congress was doing nothing but rubber-stamping Regime demands and money was being shoveled out of the Treasury and into who knows who's fricken hands...waste, abuse and epic failure was guaranteed.

And did you hear the Dear Leader yesterday?  Basically told his department heads to scour all legislative authorizations to find a way to force his non-job "job's bill" through executive action...any bets on how easy it will be for the Regime's fast n' furious legal beagles to find such authority?

Impeachment and conviction should have been a thing of history by now!

 

ETA - Link:

http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php/topic,3321.new.html#new

[Predator Don]

The money flows because it was not earned. You can bet pelosi and reid do not treat thier own finances and investments in this fashion.

Example: There is debate in Tennessee because the cost of in state college tuition is rising.  No one can figure out why ( because there is stupidity here). The cause of rising tuition is the large elephant in the room, the lottery, the money earmarked to "higher education".......AKA free money. No one will admit to it and to "punish" higher education, the state cut the % of free money going to the schools....so the schools just raised thier tuition to gather the same amount of free money.

There will always be tremendous waste as long as the money is considered "free". We saw it in the bailouts, in Solendra, in this "electric" station in Tennessee, the banks, etc, etc. No responsibility.

obama continues to push out free money....the result will always be the same. We are a stoopid bunch.

[IronDioPriest]

There is a sense of entitlement in education as well, bolstered by years and decades of the assumption of academic altruism within academia and state government. The state cuts off a little nip from the sugar tit, and Lord knows they're not going to trim back on administrators, queer studies, or diversity counselors. They'll just raise tuition until the whole thing implodes.

[Pandora]

And, interestingly, ::snort:: no one with a bully pulpit or a podium is pounding on Big Education. 

[IronDioPriest]

And, interestingly, ::snort:: no one with a bully pulpit or a podium is pounding on Big Education. 

Nope. But it IS riding a bubble that is about to implode. There are people ringing the alarm (Instapundit is a good and constant source for "education bubble" news), but you're right - no bully pulpit, no podium pounding.

[AlanS]

There is a sense of entitlement in education as well, bolstered by years and decades of the assumption of academic altruism within academia and state government.

That, sir, is the understatement of the year.

[Libertas]

WI Gov tried to modestly reign in excess fat and look at the thanks he got...

I want leftists punished, period!  Fvck playing nice, wtf good is it?

[BMG]

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/1/online-soap-opera-cleans-up-with-stimulus-broadban/

You may not have seen the show “Diary of a Single Mom” co-starring Billy Dee Williams, but your tax dollars helped pay for it.

Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000.

[Libertas]

Doesn't surprise me at all...and you can just hear the outrage...

(crickets)