Remember all that “Stimulus Money”…..
Are You Out There, Stimulus? It’s Me, The Taxpayer.
Nick Gillespie|Mar. 28, 2013 8:39 am
Columnist Ron Hart asks a question that’s answered by the cover story of the current issue of Reason (and perfectly summarized by the cover image of same): Where did all that sweet stimulus money go?
Of the money spent in swing state Wisconsin, 80 percent went to public sector unions – those with already locked-in jobs. In fact, right-to-work states got $266 less per person in stimulus money than heavily unionized states. Where Democrats had a vast majority of representatives, their states got $460 per person more.
More pointedly, Hart writes,
Remember when Obama got his trillion-odd dollars of “stimulus money” which he and the Democrats breathlessly said we needed for “shovel ready” jobs to re-build roads and infrastructure? Please e-mail me if anything of the sort got built in your town. Nothing got built in the cities where I spend time….
Peter Suderman’s article in the May issue – which you’d be reading right now if you subscribed for just $14.63 under our special Sequestration Offer – lays out exactly where stimulus spending went and why it didn’t work as advertised.
Yes, tens of millions of dollars literally went to install new toilets in parks Alaska, New Mexico, Washington state, and elsewhere. If only we could have flushed our way to recovery.
More important, Suderman writes (and this can’t be underscored enough), “The economy’s performance continues to be far worse than the White House’s worst-case projections for what might happen if there had been no stimulus at all.”
https://reason.com/blog/2013/03/28/are-you-out-there-stimulus-its-me-the-ta
The taxpayer gets screwed again.
People, during future elections try to pay attention to the substance of a candidates platform and their past experience, not where they stand personally regarding birth control…
You reap what you sow.
If we had a real media in this country, instead of a media that is nothing more than the PR department of the Democrat party, then we would have real investigative reporting regarding the enormous plundering of our tax dollars by machine politics. Instead, we have a small minority of reporters trying to do this, but because they are massively outnumbered, they are labelled kooks and racists.