Review this PDF

http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=59af3ebd-7bf9-4933-8279-8091b533464f

Here is one example:

In Perkins, Oklahoma, residents are literally paying the price for the “free” stimulus dollars provided by
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Perkins is receiving $1.445 million from a federal stimulus
grant for new wastewater treatment plant. As a condition of accepting those funds, the town must
comply with a number of federal requirements. These federal restrictions have increased the total cost of
the project from $5.26 million to $7.2 million, offsetting any financial benefit from the grant. As a result,
utility rates for local residents have risen by 60% to pay the costs for accepting the stimulus money. City
Manager Pete Seikel said residents don’t understand why their sewer rates have to be increased if the city
is getting federal grants to build the new wastewater treatment plant.

Read about these projects:

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

If you have a blog please post the PDF link to this paper.
If you have the resources then please print out as many copies of this paper as you can or at least the top ten projects and hand them out at Tea Parties.

Here’s a play-at-home game: Can anyone spot the obvious crap in these statements?

“It took us years to get us into this mess, it will take longer than a few months to get us out…”
“The Climate change bill is good for the economy…”
“… We’ll create millions of new jobs that can’t be outsourced…”
“… We have to put aside the ideological differnces of the past and look forward…”
“… We’ve underinvested in job creating infrastructure for too long…”
“.. We’ve done more work [on energy independence] in the last few months than we have in the previous decades…”

It’s only a matter of time before other numbers start to go out of control. What about inflation? Once it starts going up we can bring back the misery index….fun!!