Frugal Café Blog Zone

Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 18, 2010

Our “hard-earned and then paid to the government” taxpayer dollars at work stimulating the economy with porkulus money by fixing the roads… in wealthy, upscale Evanston, Illinois.

This glorious news makes me feel all warm and cozy and hopenchange-y inside… should also make the city of Detroit feel pretty chipper, too.

Help for Illinois millionaires using American taxpayers’ dollars… thank you, Joe Biden and Barack Obama!

Hmmm… Pres. Obama is from Illinois. Could this be nepotism? Government error? Corruption? State-official buy-offs? Ineptitude?

Nah, why would you think any of THAT?

H/t to video creator and awesome conservative Founding Bloggers, via the equally awesome Big Government.

And these spendthrift jokers in Washington want to be in charge of our health care?

Stimulus Springs Eternal

From Marathon Blogger, Stimulus comes to Evanston’s Millionaire’s Row:

Evanston’s Sheridan Road is a Millionaire’s Row, yet the rich slobs who live on it benefit from stimulus money for road reconstruction…

Concern has even been expressed about Illinois’ lack of transparency on stimulus money by liberal mouthpiece Huffington Post, Illinois Stimulus Projects Lists Still Kept From Public:

With Illinois poised to get nearly $9 billion from the federal stimulus bill, state and city officials have been scrambling to compile wish lists of projects ranging from repairs of crumbling highways to deteriorating schools.

But watchdog groups say it’s not the wish lists that concern them: It’s the ones they haven’t been able to see.

Lists from most state agencies and some cities “most notably Chicago” have been opened to little, if any, public scrutiny ” increasing the risk that pork or otherwise tainted projects end up getting funds.

“When the IRS audits you, you don’t get to choose whether to be transparent,” said John Tillman, head of the Illinois Policy Institute. “And when public officials want your tax money, they shouldn’t be able to deny taxpayers’ transparency.”

Many cities and counties, as well as at least one state agency, have released detailed lists of projects they hope will eventually receive money through the Obama administration’s $787 billion plan. But there is plenty of reluctance in Illinois and nationwide to detail those plans, with some officials arguing it’s still too early in the selection process.

Watchdog groups say some officials clearly fear angering constituents if a project on a preliminary wish list is struck from any final list.

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