Obama's living it up while millions jobless and struggling.

The Obama family, first family of the USA.

 

Where I come from we have a name for this. It rhymes with Bigger-ditch.

 

Right, and republicans care about working people ...when? When
they see the opportunity to use it to siphon more money to
their real constiutuency. shameless.

 

The authors chart is very accurate.
The stimulus was not about helping the economy. It was a special interests payoff.
Her chart is uncanny showing what will happen to unemployment with no stimulus, and there was no stimulus program.

BTW, Romer, the author, just resigned to go back to the University where she will corrupt thousands of students with her ideas.

 

Obama Earmarks $1 Billion in Stimulus Money for Company in Illinois
By Brian Darling
Friday, August 6th at 10:15AM EDT

The biggest earmark in American history has been doled out to a company in Illinois, the President’s home state, in the name of green jobs. The President’s $862 billion Stimulus plan has been an abysmal failure. It provided states and localities with billions in bailout moneys, funded wasteful projects like the Monkey cocaine study at Wake Forest and given false hope to Americans that the President has ideas to turn around the economy. This earmark is an outrage and the signature project of the President’s Stimulus plan. Thankfully, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is sounding the alarm bells and educating the American people to this new Obama outrage.

President Obama is earmarking $1 billion in Stimulus money “to build FutureGen 2.0, a clean coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO2) storage network” in his home state of Illinois. According to a Department of Energy press release, this billion is being provided to ”FutureGen Alliance, Ameren Energy Resources, Babcock & Wilcox, and Air Liquide Process & Costruction, Inc. to build FutureGen 2.0, a clean coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO2) storage network.” That is right — $1 billion. This is the largest earmark of money in U.S. history and they are taking money right out of your pocket to pay for it.

The Department of Energy projects 1,900 jobs as a result of $1,000,000,000 in new spending. This works out to $526,315.79 of your tax dollars spent per job. A half million dollars per job seems to be a bad deal for the taxpayer. Of more concern to the taxpayer, Senator Tom Coburn believes this project to be more about bringing home pork to Illinois than providing stimulus to average Americans.

According to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu yesterday:

Although the President promised to keep the $862 billion stimulus plan free from earmarks, this project was an earmark in the Stimulus, yet the Washington Post reported on March 6, 2009:

Now, the Department of Energy has announced the $1 billion in funding for the earmark in President Obama’s home state. This earmark funnels tax dollars from Americans to Illinois. Senator Tom Coburn criticized the first version of this project, FutureGen 1.0, and an argues that this project calls in to question President Obama’s Stimulus plan.

Senator Coburn said of the $1 billion earmark:

Coburn isn’t the only one concerned. Some greenies on left argue that this project is not efficient and will not do enough to protect the environment. The original FutureGen plan was scaled back and the promises of capturing 90% of carbon emissions became a promise FutureGen could not keep.

The environmental group, the Clean Air Taskforce, was quoted in the Wyoming Business Report:

For months, the Obama Administration and Congress said that the Stimulus language was not an earmark for this company in Illinois. We now know that assertion to be false. The actions yesterday from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu confirm suspicions that this is the biggest earmark in American history. FutureGen in Matoon, Illinois gets $1 billion and average Americans are provided with the bill.

President Obama, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Secretary Chu need to explain to the American people how this happened. How did this earmark get into the Stimulus? Why is the Obama Administration funnelling $1 billion into Illinois for a project of dubious effectiveness. Unemployment today stands at 9.5% and the Stimulus has proven to have had no effect on unemployment rates.

Ths President’s Stimulus is a failure and many on the Hill are concerned about this project as evidence of special treatment for some companies in the President’s home state. This is exactly the type of waste, fraud and abuse that motivate average Americans to join the Tea Party movement to continue to distrust the federal government.

 

I predict this lecturing windbag will wind up like Carter. Out of office.

 

LOL at "Impeach"

Re-elect 5 29.41%
Vote out 4 23.53%
Impeach 8 47.06%
Total: 17 votes 100%

 

Nothing to see here folks, Didnt you guys get the memo? Nancy Pelosi has already drained the swamp of corruption.....Now apparently all the libtards are hanging out doing cocaine with monkeys.....

 

So the "special interests" ie. the black tie and ballgown set got most of the stimulus money. Yet, in other threads you argue that we cannot increase the tax rate (by letting the Bush tax cuts expire) on this group because they create businesses and jobs with their money... lol.

 

I wish Obama would just head to the beach and smoke dope all day. Anything but push through more of his legislation.