The Stimulus Revisited

You can't make this stuff up. In a report published by Senators Coburn and McCain, $194,000 of the stimulus passed last year to boost the economy went to a grant to two Texas universities to study how the stimulus is received by the public.

A Maryland consulting firm received over $360,000 to report National Institute of Health stimulus spending efforts and their benefits.

$498,000 went to the American Legacy Foundation, which provided Blackberry smartphones to low income smokers so they can call a hotline to deal with their addiction. Apparently, two jobs were created out of that. Doing what?

A million dollars were sent to a school in Kansas to provide students with Ipod Touch devices that were loaded with applications to help motivate students to learn.

Ummmm...this is what happens when you give a blank check to Nancy Pelosi and her cronies and ask her to go stimulate the economy. Instead, she treated the money like a crack addict and simply fueled her own addiction for funding worthless projects with taxpayer money. And what do we have to show for it? The weakest recovery after a recession ever and a trillion dollar annual budget deficit for as far as the eye can see.