The Genius of Sen. Tom Coburn
Courtesy of michellemalkin.com
Senator Tom Coburn, on his website, has posted a remarkable document he calls "100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion" In it, he shines a bright light into the dark, smelly corners of this ridiculous pork-laden boondoggle. Here is what the State Controlled American Media (SCAM) will NEVER write about. We're only publishing the top ten; the other ninety are broken out by region on his website. This would be hysterical reading - if it weren't so damned tragic. Click on the wonderful graphic to the left to be taken to a .pdf of the entire document.
1. “Free” Stimulus Money Results in Higher Utility Costs for Residents of Perkins, Oklahoma
2. FutureGen: The Stimulus Earmark that Wasn’t Becomes the Costliest Pork Project in History
3. Little-Used “Shovel-Ready” Bridges in Rural Wisconsin Given Priority Over Widely Used Structurally Deficient Bridges
4. $800,000 for little-Used Johnstown, Pennsylvania Airport to Repave a Back-Up Runway; the “Airport for Nobody” Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
5. $3.4 Million for Wildlife “Eco-Passage” in Florida; Project Still May Take Years to Finish
6. Nevada Non-Profit Gets Weatherization Contract After Being Fired For Same Work
7. Non-Existent Oklahoma Lake in Line for Over $1 Million To Construct a New Guardrail
8. Taxpayers Taken for a Ride: Nearly $10 Million to be Spent to Renovate a Century Old Train Station that Hasn’t Been Used in 30 Years
9. Ten Thousand Dead People Get Stimulus Checks, Social Security Administration Blames a Tough Deadline
10. Town of Union, New York, Encouraged to Spend Money It Did Not Request For a Homelessness Problem It Does Not Have
2. FutureGen: The Stimulus Earmark that Wasn’t Becomes the Costliest Pork Project in History
3. Little-Used “Shovel-Ready” Bridges in Rural Wisconsin Given Priority Over Widely Used Structurally Deficient Bridges
4. $800,000 for little-Used Johnstown, Pennsylvania Airport to Repave a Back-Up Runway; the “Airport for Nobody” Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
5. $3.4 Million for Wildlife “Eco-Passage” in Florida; Project Still May Take Years to Finish
6. Nevada Non-Profit Gets Weatherization Contract After Being Fired For Same Work
7. Non-Existent Oklahoma Lake in Line for Over $1 Million To Construct a New Guardrail
8. Taxpayers Taken for a Ride: Nearly $10 Million to be Spent to Renovate a Century Old Train Station that Hasn’t Been Used in 30 Years
9. Ten Thousand Dead People Get Stimulus Checks, Social Security Administration Blames a Tough Deadline
10. Town of Union, New York, Encouraged to Spend Money It Did Not Request For a Homelessness Problem It Does Not Have
