Obama Stimulus Package-- Waste of Money?

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Can't blame what happened in LA on Obama or the Feds.

Reads like poor management of resources at the state and local level.

Sure you can. In fact honest people require accountibility.

US $111 million was spent on creating 55 jobs in Los Angeles. And it’s not even clear if there were 55 jobs actually created, since the city controller phrased it in terms of “created or retained

The criminals gave the money to LA friends with no requirements attached.

I wouldn't send an 8 year old to the ice cream store with a 100 dollar bill and not ask about what happened to the change.

[coadie]

RALEIGH — The federal government sent 2.5 million stimulus dollars to North Carolina ZIP codes that don’t exist.

The information came from the government’s own Web site — Recovery.gov. The site was set up to track the distribution of the $787 billion made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Who votes for this?

[coadie]

In December, the Franklin Center found that nearly $6.4 billion in stimulus spending had been attributed to 440 phony congressional districts

Can you explain this Jermyn?

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by coadie

In December, the Franklin Center found that nearly $6.4 billion in stimulus spending had been attributed to 440 phony congressional districts

Can you explain this Jermyn?

Nope.


However, I can state and repost the facts.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599202278100

[Jermyn Davidson]

The independent Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, recently testified to Congress that investigators "simply haven't seen the kind of fraud that we would have imagined as professional law enforcement." Before the stimulus passed, experts predicted the government would lose 5% to 7% of it to fraud; today, out of more than 190,000 contracts, grants and loans, fewer than 0.2% are under investigation.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by coadie

RALEIGH — The federal government sent 2.5 million stimulus dollars to North Carolina ZIP codes that don’t exist.

The information came from the government’s own Web site — Recovery.gov. The site was set up to track the distribution of the $787 billion made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Who votes for this?

This is to be expected by government workers. They hire the bottom end and the programs are rife with error and cheating.

What is the federal government thinking by sending 111 million dollars to LA without a detail on what it is to be spent on?

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

The independent Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, recently testified to Congress that investigators "simply haven't seen the kind of fraud that we would have imagined as professional law enforcement." Before the stimulus passed, experts predicted the government would lose 5% to 7% of it to fraud; today, out of more than 190,000 contracts, grants and loans, fewer than 0.2% are under investigation.

Are you a dishonest government worker? Gov whistleblowers fired for catching fraud.





http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...files-lawsuit/

The inspector general President Obama fired last month filed a lawsuit Friday to get his job back, claiming the firing was politically motivated and broke a 2008 law governing how watchdogs can be dismissed.

Gerald Walpin, inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service, was removed June 10. In a letter telling Congress of his decision, Mr. Obama said he no longer had confidence in Mr. Walpin, but did not elaborate.

Mr. Walpin says he was fired because he targeted an Obama supporter, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, in a successful investigation that resulted in Mr. Johnson and an academy on which he formerly served as executive director repaying half the $847,000 it received in government grants.

He also said in its haste to dump him, the administration never interviewed him or any of his staff - an omission Mr. Walpin said in his lawsuit violates a 2008 law meant to protect government watchdogs.

Earlier this year Mr. Walpin issued reports that found that St. Hope Academy, founded by Mr. Johnson, had misused some of the nearly $850,000 in grant money it received from the federal AmeriCorps program. The academy has agreed to pay back about half the money.

Obama will order you fired if you catch fraud.

I can see why Jerym supports this. Crooks support each other.

Immediately on firing Walpin, they attack him with smears.

White House Plays Hardball; Says Fired IG Walpin Was "Confused, Disoriented" Engaged in "Inappropriate Conduct"

But they didn't meet with him.

[coadie]

The government says that $522 million Recovery Act dollars have been spent on weatherization, and the GAO says that 9,100 homes have been weatherized as of December 31.

I’m no math whiz, but that comes to $57,362 per home. I later ran across a piece by Andrew Malcom and he came up with the same number.

Plugs Biden is impressed

[coadie]

The jobless rate has been at or above 9.5 percent for a year and two months, the longest stretch since the Great Depression. The "underemployment" rate adds part-time workers who would rather work full time and jobless people who aren't actively seeking work. It now exceeds 17 percent.

Looks like a rookie in the Whitehouse has no solutions.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by coadie

Looks like a rookie in the Whitehouse has no solutions.

the socialist in the White House and the Pelosi/Reid Legislature are clueless