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Obama Administration Spends Million$$$for Stimulus Signs
Source: Human Events  Share

YouCut Project Video: Obama's Endgame: A Look at the National Debt


Source: Eric Cantor, Republican Whip YouCut -- Editor's note: A MUST watch video.  I believe every Conservative candidate for US Senate and US Congress should play this video as their introduction before any campaign speech or debate. Share

$26 Billion Bailout? Democrats Roll Dice With Education Aid Vote
Source: Foxnews -- Is the Obama Administration and the Democratic Leadship using this bail out bill as a means to buy the vote of the Public Employees and Teachers, and as pay back to the Public Employee and Teachers Unions?  You decide, its your tax dollarsShare

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: Unemployment Could Go Up Before It Comes Down
Source: ABC News -- Editor's note: So where are the 3 million plus new jobs that Obama, Pelosi and Reid promised the American people when they bulldozed the Stimulus Bill through Congress?  Share

Stimulus Slammed: Republican Senators Release Report Alleging Waste
Source: ABC News -- Editor's note:  Alleged? Any person with any common sense about them can see that there is numerous incidences of waste with the Stimulus program.  Share

Summertime Blues: 100 Stimulus Projects That Give The Taxpayers The Blues


Source: Coburn.Senate.gov -- Editor's note: VP Joe Biden should be very proud of these accomphishments.  You can read the full report HERE Examples of wasteful projects include:

 • $554,763 for the Forest Service to replace windows in a closed visitor center at Mount St. Helens

• $762,372 to create “Dance Draw” interactive dance software

• $62 million for a tunnel to nowhere in Pittsburgh, PA that even Governor, Ed Rendell called “a tragic mistake”

• $1.9 million for international ant research

• $1.8 million for a road project that is threatening a pastor’s home

• $308 million for a joint clean energy venture with…BP

• $89,298 to replace a new sidewalk that leads to a ditch in Boynton, OK

• $3.8 million for a “streetscaping” project that has reduced traffic and caused a business to fire two employees

• $16 million to help Boeing to clean up an environmental mess it created in 2007

• $200,000 to help Siberian communities lobby Russian policy makers

• $39.7 million to upgrade the statehouse and political offices in Topeka, Kansas

• $760,000 to Georgia Tech to study improvised music

• $700,000 to study why monkeys respond negatively to inequity

• $193,956 to study voter perceptions of the economic stimulus

• $363,760 to help NIH promote the positive impacts of stimulus projects

$456,663 to study the circulation of Neptune’s atmosphere
$529,648 to study the effects of local populations on the environment…in the Himalayas  Share



Obama Porkway: Road Built With Stimulus Money Will Bear President’s Name

Synposis: If you’re in Orlando looking for this road, it’s just a mile west of the intersection of Hope and Change, and a half-mile east of the corner of Shovel and Ready. Why did local officials decide to name the stimulus road after the president? Because “A Blatant Attempt to Bankrupt America Boulevard” wouldn’t fit on the sign. Source: Michelle Malkin -- Editor's note: What is next, perhaps the naming of several new rest stop restrooms after V.P. Joe Biden?  Share



Are They High? 
What could be more stimulating than free beer?

Synopsis: Stimulus bill—provided $389,357 to the State University of New York at Buffalo to fund the project,  "Malt Liquor and Marijuana: Factors in Their Concurrent Versus Separate Use.”  The University pays some 600 individuals (with Federal Stimulus monies) to drink malt liquor, and to  describe their feelings as they consume malt liquor and smoke marijuana.  Source: The Weekly Standard  -- Editor's note: YOUR tax money hard at work, keeping the economy going, which must be one of VP Joe Biden's pet projects.  Share



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