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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on July 15, 2010, 09:39:32 AM
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(http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/rt_stimulus_sign_100714_mn.jpg)
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting "The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and reminding passers-by that the program is "Putting America Back to Work."
On the road leading to Dulles Airport outside Washington, DC there's a 10' x 11' road sign touting a runway improvement project funded by the federal stimulus. The project cost nearly $15 million and has created 17 jobs, according to recovery.gov.
However, there's another number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That's how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign – announcing that the project is "Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and is "Putting America Back to Work." The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.
ABC News has reached out to a number of states about spending on stimulus signs and learned the state of Illinois has spent $650,000 on about 950 signs and Pennsylvania has spent $157,000 on 70 signs. Other states, like Virginia , Vermont , and Arizona do not sanction any signs.
More idiocy at LINK (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-stimulus/story?id=11163180&page=1)
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3 guys leaning on shovel and one filling a pot ='s a sign saying Obama putting people to work.
Pot hole and nobody around it ='s sign saying "Bush's fault".
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The whole thing is a joke. All this money does is keep Unions/Government workers working........nothing but make-work off the backs of tax payers.
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Man, I don't think I would be putting my name on a sign like that.
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What should be on the signs...
(http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/porklogo2.jpg)
From Michelle Malkin's site.
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Man, I don't think I would be putting my name on a sign like that.
But you're probably not a narcissistic community organizer with an overblown opinion of himself, either.
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A while back, someone posted a link to see what your community got in stimulus money, and what it was doing with it. I looked up mine, and we didn't have much. (we are demographically/financially impaired) Well, we had one project. To resurface a road, but only in our district. So, they just finished it. It really needed to be resurfaced. But, because of the way the district is shaped, it is about 3 miles of a 6-8 mile road in my City, on the south side. So, you drive on the crunchy pothole bits, then you get nice road, for 3 miles, and then back to crunchy pothole bits. Now at least I can see my stimulus dollars at work. But wait, there's more!
They resurfaced the road in asphalt. Asphalt is NOT the desired surface for my neck of the woods. It will be slick in the rain, and crack in the heat.
WAY TO GO! :thatsright:
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A while back, someone posted a link to see what your community got in stimulus money, and what it was doing with it. I looked up mine, and we didn't have much. (we are demographically/financially impaired) Well, we had one project. To resurface a road, but only in our district. So, they just finished it. It really needed to be resurfaced. But, because of the way the district is shaped, it is about 3 miles of a 6-8 mile road in my City, on the south side. So, you drive on the crunchy pothole bits, then you get nice road, for 3 miles, and then back to crunchy pothole bits. Now at least I can see my stimulus dollars at work. But wait, there's more!
They resurfaced the road in asphalt. Asphalt is NOT the desired surface for my neck of the woods. It will be slick in the rain, and crack in the heat.
WAY TO GO! :thatsright:
Somehow I bet that was President Bush's fault!!!!11111111 :-)
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Somehow I bet that was President Bush's fault!!!!11111111
Of course it is! Because if he were a "true Texan" he would have known asphalt is no bueno/DU Mode off.
Oh yeah, and we have no signs either!
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The whole thing is a joke. All this money does is keep Unions/Government workers working employees employed........nothing but make-work off the backs of tax payers.
f1x0r3d...