I found this article on Yahoo news the other morning and though some of you might find it interesting. Apparently Tom Coburn, a republican senator for Oklahoma, has some real issues with a couple of the projects that Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus (also known as our tax money) package is going to be pick up the tab for and I can’t really blame him. The issues he specifically points out: (emphasis mine)
A $3.4 million Florida Department of Transportation project for an “eco-passage” — an underground wildlife road crossing for turtles and other wildlife in Lake Jackson, Fla., along U.S. 27.
A Bureau of Land Management project to study the impact wind farms have on the sage grouse population in Oregon.
$1.5 million in stimulus money for a $5 million new wastewater treatment plant in Perkins, Okla., his home state. Coburn said the stimulus money came with strings that will increase the costs. With a new total cost of $7.2 million, the city will be forced to borrow money and, as a result, utility taxes have increased by 60 percent this year…
Road signs costing $300 each, being placed at construction sites to alert motorists that the project is being paid for by the stimulus money.
Montana’s state-run liquor warehouse, to receive $2.2 million in stimulus cash to install skylights.
The bottom line is that this spending of money we don’t have is bad. No matter how often our thug president tells us that “raising taxes on the rich” is going to cover these costs, the number just don’t work. He’s building a debt that my generation isn’t going to be able to pay back, and for what? Signs? Skylights? Turtle passageways? I’m sure this is community organizing at it’s best.
June 18, 2009
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