Stimulus Watch: Let's you track where/what stimulus money is being spent on....... (unemployment, highway)

[softblueyz]

Very interesting site to search your city/state and see where the money is going. Seems that public/government housing is benefiting quite nicely.

Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending

[Rick Roma]

In looking at my local area the amount of money spent with 0 jobs created is quite telling.

[KUchief25]

Makes me want to throw up all the wasted money.

[KUchief25]

Here is what this money has been wasted on. Read the entire article if you want to see how completely insane the green weenies are.

"The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009.
“In October 2009, an ecologist identified a plant growing in a concrete-bound median strip along Doyle Drive in the Presidio as Arctostaphylos franciscana,” the U.S. Department of Interior reported in the Aug. 10, 2010 edition of the Federal Register. “The plant’s location was directly in the footprint of a roadway improvement project designed to upgrade the seismic and structural integrity of the south access to the Golden Gate Bridge.
“The translocation of the Arctostaphylos franciscana plant to an active native plant management area of the Presidio was accomplished, apparently successfully and according to plan, on January 23, 2010,” the Interior Department reported.
The bush—a Franciscan manzanita—was a specimen of a commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries for as little as $15.98 per plant. The particular plant in question, however, was discovered in the midst of the City of San Francisco, in the median strip of a highway, and was deemed to be the last example of the species in the “wild.”


Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to

[MTAtech]

I posted a similar post in another thread but it fits here.

First, according to the CBO and private economists, the stimulus worked. It produced the exact amount of economic stimulus that $788 billion, spread out over two-years, with 40% of it tax-cuts, would achieve in a $13 trillion/yr. GDP. During 2007/2008, GDP dropped 6%. The stimulus mitigated some of that but was not large enough to reverse a 6% GDP drop.



Second, what some suggest is to lower spending to compensate for increasing deficits. But the deficits were caused by lower revenues and higher spending on the safety net -- unemployment benefits; Food Stamps; Medicaid, etc. In other words, the very programs that are needed the most in a recession. Cutting these programs in a recession, besides being cruel, is a macro economic prescription for deepening the Great Recession.

In addition, the U.S. is now paying the same amount of interest that it paid annually in 2006, even though the debt has doubled. The U.S. is well able to handle this burden at the current time but needs to address realistic revenues to pay the debt in the future.

[Jerseyt719]

Now I know for certain that Americans are much more capable of spending money much more wisely.

[KUchief25]

So the CBO and these economist think that these loons in Cali would have spent their own money to move that plant???

[AeroGuyDC]

"Explaining the African Vote."

With my tax dollars?

I chose not to read any further. No need to. That's all I need to see to understand how ****ed this government and this nation is.

[Frank DeForrest]

That's odd... whenever I access the Stimulus Watch website, my computer makes a sound like a flushing toilet