As we close in on the election, I’ve noticed Democrats aren’t touting their February 2009 Stimulus Bill, which as revised by the Congressional Budget Office, cost $862 billion.

In December 2009, the LA Times reported $157,8 billion in stimulus funds had been spent to save 640,320 jobs. Wow, that’s only $246,346 per job!

Woohoo! We redirected, borrowed, or printed nearly $250,000 to save a job.

Isn’t the government efficient?

In October of 2009 the government released the data that the “average payroll employee (for October 2009) was $59,867. The government spends FOUR TIMES the average salary to “Create a Job”. Using their ridiculous figures and the average payroll – that would have been 2.4 million jobs.

So this was the recent headline:

NIH, spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex. (read http://deskofbrian.com/2010/09/how-have-we-spent-the-stimulus-823000-went-to-african-genital-washing-program/)

Let’s review what we’ve spent some of this money on…

Mapping Radioactive Rabbit Feces                                                       $300,000

University of Hawaii: Honey Bee Study                                               $210,000

Oregon Fishermen:Lost Crab Pot Recovery                                      $700,000

Mark Penn (repay Hillary Clinton campaign debt)                       $5,970,000

Univ. of Arizona/Ariz State: Ant Research                                          $970,000

Connecticut insect research                                                                    $2,300,000

Duluth, Minn. Snow Making Facility (15th in yearly snowfall)       $6 million

Minn. (Heart of Beast) socially conscious Puppet Show                   $100,000

Penn State fossil research in Argentina                                               $1,570,000

Lockheed Martin: study supersonic corporate Jet                        $4,700,000

Washington State visitor center(closed in 2007) repairs                 $554,763

National Institute of Health:study college students sex lives          $219,000

California College students to poll African election patterns          $230,000

Study how cocaine effects monkeys’ brains                                             $147,000

Study on ‘Why Young Men Don’t Like Condoms’                                    $221,000

Tennessee Mall: Geothermal heating (mall’s nearly empty)        $5,000,000

Study Buffalo, NY residents’ drinking habits                                          $400,000

Boynton, Oklahoma: replace 5 year old sidewalks                                  $90,000

Sunset Strip renovation                                                                                $1,000,000

Lancaster, PA Train Station(not used for decades) Renovation   $9.38 million

Facebook privacy study                                                                                  $498,000

Turtle Tunnel in Tallahassee, Florida                                                     $3,400,000

Wichita, Kansas: Spay and Neuter pets                                               $380,000 – this includes an undisclosed amount for roads as well

Georgia Tech University study on improvised music                      $762,372

“Dance Draw” – UNC: Charlotte (interactive dance)                           $750,000

Land purchase Arizona and Colorado Spring Training Facilities    $30 Million

Connecticut WNBA team’s practice facility                                             $50 million

Light rail tunnel under the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh              $62.5 million

Fire Stations in San Antonio (2 stations)                                                  $73 million

Other interesting items:

“Tax for Clubbers”: a $4,200 – $5,500 tax credit for buying an electric golf cart

TAX CUT: $13/week in 2009 and reduces to $7.70/week in 2010.

I’ve tally a list that accounts for over $260 billion – 260 BILLION DOLLARS!

Congress should be fired and no one should be elected unless they will go on record denouncing this behavior and support stopping this reckless spending at all costs.

I don’t care about their party affiliation, because I care about my country and this has to stop.

http://deskofbrian.com/2009/12/stimulus-wasteful-spending-ants-puppet-show-bobber-the-safety-dog/

http://deskofbrian.com/2010/09/stimulus-wasteful-spending-bees-crabs-and-hillary-oh-my/

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/191394/your-stimulus-dollars-work-new-coburn-and-mccain-report/veronique-de-rugy

http://libertypundits.net/article/top-ten-stimulus-projects-from-radioactive-rabbit-droppings-to-the-sex-lives-of-female-college-freshmen/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204574473724099542430.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125659862304009151.html#printMode

http://www.youngmoney.com/credit_debt/stupid-stimulus-spending-projects-that-piss-us-off/

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=204335,00.html

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