Do you know anyone who’s been stimulated by The Stimulus Plan? Any of your friends working jobs that have recently been created or saved? You niether?

Silly peon! You don’t know the right people. Dr. Michael Mann, on the other hand, seems to be making out like a bandit. (Imagine that!)

In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.

“It’s outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal. Penn State should immediately return these funds to the U.S. Treasury,” said Tom Borelli, Ph.D., director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project. (HT: The National Center)

It’s Chi-town, Baby. The Stimulus Plan gets used to take care of people Barack Obama knows.