How is the Stimulus money being spent?
StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. According to their web site, "We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed "shovel-ready" projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects. These projects are not part of the stimulus bill. They are candidates for funding by federal grant programs once the bill passes". In other words, once the Recovery and Reinvestment Act is signed by President Obama on the 16th February, then all the projects that have been planned by the local governments, can be activated based on moneys allocated to those areas by the Act.
A random example?
Go to Stimulus Watch web site
and read the entire file-it goes on for page after dismal page of impressive spending like dog park construction mentioned above. Or
How is that for an economic stimulus project? And cheap at the price-only one and a half million dollars. Here is another fun one I saw:
| Downtown Quiet Zone | San Diego | CA | 0 | $20,000,000 | Streets/Roads | -213 |
$20 million to create a quiet zone for San Diego? No jobs produced?
California made out fairly well in this Stimulus Bill. 1,971 projects total.
| California (1971 projects) Texas (1240 projects) Illinois (1031 projects) Arizona (743 projects) Florida (1752 projects) Ohio (847 projects) Michigan (782 projects) Indiana (713 projects) Mississippi (552 projects) Kentucky (524 projects) Connecticut (449 projects) Louisiana (433 projects) Missouri (403 projects) Virginia (400 projects) Washington (368 projects) Wisconsin (358 projects) Pennsylvania (352 projects) Idaho (348 projects) Puerto Rico (340 projects) Minnesota (335 projects) North Carolina (319 projects) Alabama (318 projects) Hawaii (316 projects) Utah (298 projects) New York (289 projects) South Carolina (271 projects) | Georgia (266 projects) Massachusetts (266 projects) New Jersey (261 projects) Oklahoma (223 projects) New Mexico (215 projects) Colorado (201 projects) Arkansas (199 projects) Nevada (163 projects) Oregon (159 projects) Nebraska (154 projects) Kansas (139 projects) Rhode Island (116 projects) Tennessee (103 projects) Wyoming (85 projects) Maine (72 projects) North Dakota (61 projects) Vermont (61 projects) Montana (57 projects) Maryland (54 projects) Iowa (51 projects) Alaska (46 projects) South Dakota (30 projects) Washington, D.C. (8 projects) Delaware (7 projects) West Virginia (1 projects) |
These folks at Stimulus Watch have put in quite a bit of work putting this together. Wander on over to the web site and browse through all the various, wondrous way in which your tax dollars, and future tax dollars of your grandchildren are being put to work.
I can be E-mailed at outrider@ohnoanotherconservativeblog.com if you have suggestions, questions, or would like to see a particular story written.
I was shocked to see how much the little city of Hinesville has put on their wish list. Savannah has quite the little list, as well. Both being bluer than blue, they'll probably do pretty well.
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It's good that people know where these jobs came and infrastructure improvements came from. Besides, the armed forces and military industrial complex spend many times this amount on advertising.
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Sure. However stop and consider how many of these "stimulus" projects fall under the constitution. The military is one of the few responsibilities the Federal government is tasked with.
Golf courses, convention centers, walking trails, new housing for poor people, and dog park construction are all very interesting projects but fall way outside the feds arena.
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The agency charged with tracking the stimulus funds, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, attempted to eliminate this embarrassment by lumping all the billions reported going to nonexistent Congressional districts into a new category called the “unassigned” Congressional district.
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