Here Are A Few Reminders About the First Stimulus…

  • $5 million to create a geothermal energy system for a shopping mall in Tennessee. The mall is over half empty of tenants and has had falling shopper attendance for years
  • $1.57 million to Penn State University study fossils in Argentina
  • $100,000 to a puppet theater in Minnesota
  • $2 million to build a replica railroad tourist trap in Carson City, Nev.
  • A boat cruise company in Chicago got almost $1 million to “combat terrorism”
  • $500,000 went to Ariz. State Univ. to study ant genetics
  • Another $450,000 went to Uinv. of Arizona to study ants
  • Almost $400,000 went to Univ. of New York to pay students to drink beer and smoke marijuana for a study there
  • $219,000 to the Nat’l Institute of Health to study if young people “hook-up” after getting drunk
  • $210,000 to the Univ. of Hawaii to study bees
  • $700,000 to crab fishermen in Oregon to pay for lost crab pots
  • $5,000 a person tax rebate if you buy a new electric golf cart (Wall Street Journal)
  • Up to $1 million went to prisoners in $250 stimulus checks (FoxNews)
  • $54 mil to a New York Indian tribe to run its casino (New York Post)
  • $1 billion for a power plant in Mattoon, Illinois that is based on speculative science and may not even work
  • $15 million to back-road bridges that get little traffic in Wisconsin
  • $800,000 for a practically unused airport in Pennsylvania
  • $3.4 million for an animal walk way under a road in Florida
  • $1.15 million to install a guard rail for a lake that doesn’t even exist in Oklahoma
  • $10 million to renovate a rail station that has stood unused for a decade
  • $578,000 to battle homelessness in Union, New York even though the town says they have no homeless people there
  • $233,000 to the Univ. of Calif. to study why Africans vote… in Africa
  • $2 million to build a new fire house in a Nevada town that has no firemen
  • North Carolina schools got $4.4 million for literacy and math coaches… to teach their teachers!
  • $54 million for a railroad project in Napa Valley went to a minority-owned company that then hired a local construction company for half the price, pocketing the rest
  • A California company was given $15 million in stimulus money to monitor water quality in a stream it was under indictment for polluting previously

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