CBS News Reports: Stimulus Funds Go to Martini Bars, Puppet shows
Last night, the CBS Evening News reported on yet another revelation of stimulus waste, fraud, and abuse. The latest news of stimulus waste came courtesy of a study released by Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and John mccain (R-AZ), entitled Stimulus Checkup, which took a closer look at 100 projects funded by the Democrats 1 trillion stimulus and highlighted 100 wasteful stimulus projects worth at least 7 billion but saved or created few actual jobs. The latest projects that taxpayer dollars are funding include: a martini bar, a Brazilian steak house, a water pipeline, a money-losing golf course in San Francisco, fossil research in Argentina, puppet shows - and much, much more. As CBS News reported: The public s overall assessment of the condition of the national economy remains grim 77 percent of Americans say the economy is in bad shape. The economic stimulus package was supposed to help with that. As of the end of November, the government has spent 217 billion in stimulus, and two Republican Senators say that at least 15 percent of it has been pure waste. You probably wouldn t guess that a martini bar and a Brazilian steak house would be on tap for stimulus funds. But in St. Joseph, Missouri the two privately-owned facilities are getting 100000 of your tax dollars. The contrast with the latest report of stimulus waste and a Memorandum to Head of Departments and Agencies penned by Obama Administration Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Office of Management and Budget ...
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