Stimulus Money Mistakes from Government AGAIN? Clown College Recruits May Be Wiser Choice to Be Trusted with Taxpayers’ Money
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 12, 2009
By Vicki McClure Davidson * Frugal Café Blog Zone
Again, the utter incompetence of our government sending recovery/stimulus money to the right people has been reported by the Associated Press. More than 10,000 dead people have received money from the government. And thousands who need the money, are indeed eligible, are not getting any help.
And we want these clowns in charge of our HEALTH CARE? And running American businesses? And selling American cars? Why on earth would we think they could do those better with no experience or education whatsoever? They’ve had decades to go to the most illustrious Ivy League universities, recruit and groom the “brightest and best,” and have had umpteen years to fine tune how to correctly budget our nation’s economy and correctly send the correct amount of money to taxpayers and Social Security recipients. Living ones, not dead ones.
But they keep botching it up. And overspending. And turning Social Security and Medicare into a pathetic, amateurish mess. And increasing our nation’s debt. Would it take four or more additional decades of sloppy management of health care before Obama’s team started to get that right, too?
Good grief, maybe soliciting recruits from a clown college for Obama’s administration on sending out stimulus money would be the wiser choice. Heck, real clowns couldn’t do any worse than these bureaucratic clowns have done. And Democrats can’t blame this latest financial blunder on former Pres. Bush (although, I’m sure they’ll try).
Potential clown recruits for overseeing Obama administration doling of stimulus money
From Michelle Malkin: Hey, how’s that porkulus working out?
Of the about 52 million [Social Security] checks that have been mailed out, about 10,000 of those have been sent to people who are deceased.
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The billions in transportation stimulus dollars that President Barack Obama promoted as a way to create jobs shortchange counties that need the work the most, an Associated Press analysis has found.
The AP’s review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide is the most complete picture available of where states plan to spend the first wave of highway money. It reveals that states are planning to spend 50 percent more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than in communities with the highest. The Transportation Department said it will attempt to replicate the AP’s analysis as it continues pressing states to dole out money fairly.
One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn’t receiving any road money despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and college community of Riley County, Kan., with 3.4 percent unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway, improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.
It isn’t the first time sending stimulus/bailout (taxpayer) money has been botched, wasted, or decried in the past few months, although many Obama supporters seem to have selective memory.
Fresh off the “you gotta be kidding me” press from Hot Air:
Your tax dollars at work: Teaching Chinese hookers to drink responsibly.
(And no, I didn’t make that story up). Gads, what else could possibly top that as government waste and mismanagement? Unless, of course, you really feel it’s important to help these Asian “ladies of the night” master their alcohol consumption?
It gets worse. Read another of Michelle Malkin’s posts on your taxpayer dollars at work—this is guaranteed to make your flesh crawl: Obama’s $108 billion IMF bailout scheme. On a similar note: Creeping Sharia: Obama’s Supplemental Bill Passes, Gives Billions to Enemies?
Remember this story from March 2009? Town Doesn’t Need Fed Money, Obama’s Porkulus Guys Say “Be Creative”
I know you remember this taxpayer-money blunder, since it was just a few weeks ago: Holy Spendthrift, Batman! NYC Air Force One Flyover Cost Taxpayers $328,835!
A few more:
Not Frugal: Obama’s Valentine’s Day Splurge at Chicago’s Table 52
More Insanity from DC… John Murtha Puts Your Taxpayer Stimulus Money to Work
Gee, Thanks, Congress: More ‘Stimulus-Porkulus’ Dollars for Other Countries: US Taxpayers May Pay for Food Stamps for Poor in Mariana Islands
Obama’s Expensive G20 Trip of 500 and Our Strained US Military Heroes
Obama Ignores Cheaper, Better Solutions from GOP, Forcing Trillion-Dollar Porkulus Bill and Debt on America
Yet Another Trillion Dollars of Taxpayer Money… Gregg Warns That Obama’s Bailouts Will Bankrupt America
Spendthrift Blockheads in Washington State Gov’t: Spend $2 to Mail $1
Unemployment Hodge-Podge: Government Struggling to Help Families Applying for Aid for First Time
Let Them Eat Steak! Wastrel Obama on Collision Course with His Spendthrift Ways
Party Boy Obama Livin’ It Up Like Royalty While Americans Struggle to Buy Food
Obama’s Indulgent Wagyu Steak
Obama’s Tax and Spend Rap Video… Brilliant!
There’s so much more, but I’m starting to want to bang my head repeatedly on my desk.
Oh boy, it IS time to send in the clowns.
Quote from Rush Limbaugh | EIB radio show broadcast May 15, 2009:
“Millions of stimulus checks sent to dead people? I’m not surprised. Obama’s from Chicago. Dead people do all kinds of things in Chicago.”
Related reading:
Patriot Burr: I’m Paying for What?
Fox News, MyFox New York: Dead People Get Stimulus Checks
TigerHawk: The audacity of tax: As bad as you thought they would be
Jim Blazsik: The Obama road to serfdom and the need for nationalized health care (and unrestricted abortion for that matter)
Hot Air: Unemployment up to 9.4%
LA Times: Obama plans Las Vegas getaway to help Harry Reid get big money, Obama Plans Vegas Fundraising Trip; Blasted CEOs for Junkets…
Michelle Malkin: They’re sick of Harry Reid, too and Washington can’t meet the Cheerios Standard and Fighting foreign bailouts and Hey, Harry Reid, do you think we have an entitlement crisis yet? and Hey, let’s throw another $19 billion down the rat hole! and Wreckovery.gov Watch: More airport waste and Introducing the Obama Suckers Mutual Fund
The Other McCain: Economics is not a popularity contest
Scott’s Slant on Politics: ‘Stimulus’ Money Well Spent
Sister Toldjah: Yet another GOP warning the Democrats ignored
Finding Ponies in Piles of Poop: Unintended Deficit and “Can I have a loan….? Anyone? Helloooooooooooooo”
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