By this time, I’m sure you’ve all heard Senators Coburn and McCain reporting on all the goofy nonsense that has been financed by Obama’s trillion-dollar stimulus bill. But in case you missed the announcement, some of the items were new windows for a tourist center that’s been closed since 2007 and that nobody plans to re-open; a study of grandparent roles in Alaska; international ant research; repairing a sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, Oklahoma; $760,000 to study improvised music; $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policy makers; and $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity.
Now, before your head explodes, it means that instead of blowing it on all those goofy pork projects, Obama could have sent 20 million American taxpayers checks for $50,000. Or he could have sent 100 million of us checks for $10,000. I can assure you that those checks would have stimulated the economy a hell of a lot more than blowing it on angry monkeys and funding Siberian malcontents.
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