9-17-2010 11:00 AM EST
The big news story ( funny how these always come out on Friday ?) is that 2 DEPARTMENTS in Los Angeles SQUANDERED $111 MILLION of our tax dollars they received in the FAILED Stimulus plan championed by the CLOWN IN CHIEF in the White House .
How bad is it ? Worse than you can imagine ,as this report only covers 2 departments in Los Angeles.
Check this link to see what is going on in your neck of the woods ...
STIMULUS WATCH.ORG
The REASONABLE conclusion to draw here is that when more AUDITS are done this will be the NORMAL pattern .
Check the link and type in your city and state .
Sadly you will find that MOST of this money went to pay rent , provide meals on wheels , and rebuild housing projects .
The rest of the money appears to be PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE for existing government facilities .
SO , in reality , it's WELFARE payments and boosting the bottom line of municipal budgets that have been drained by UN NEEDED social programs .
Perhaps the few construction workers that turned a shovel had work for a couple of weeks , very few if ANY of these monetary awards created a entity that produces goods or services and has a CONTINUING revenue stream .
Let's take a look at the NUMBERS :
The two departments highlighted in the report are :
the Department of Transportation (LADOT)
Department of Public Works (DPW)
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is CODE for STIMULUS /TARP
DPW has received $70.65 million and created or retained 45.46 jobs, though they are expected to create 238 jobs overall (the fraction of a job created or retained correlates to the number of actual hours works). LADOT has been awarded $40.8 million and created or retained 9 jobs, though they are expected to create 26 jobs overall. Overall, the Departments have received $111 million in federal stimulus funds out of the $594 million the City has been awarded so far and created or retained 54.46 jobs.
What does this mean ? The 54.46 is a CLEAR indication that some of this is a SAVED JOB !!!
The really sad story ?
IF these two departments HAD met their goals we are still talking NONSENSE.
Even if you look at the number of jobs they expect to create (”or save”), it’s only 264. $111 million for 264 jobs is about $420,454 per job.
The public works agency has shielded 37 public employee jobs from elimination as a result of the city's ongoing budget crisis and created eight public or private jobs.
Although projects were designed to support 26 jobs, nine have been created or retained so far, Greuel's report said.
So their we have it !
45 SAVED Jobs and 9 jobs that were created !!!
So is the real cost $111 MILLION divided by 9 jobs ?
That would be $12,333,333 per JOB !!
THE GOOD NEWS ?
"I would say maybe in a grade, a B- in creating the jobs," Greuel told Fox News. "
The clown masquerading as a President gives himself a B- and so does the idiot in LA ?
Does this mean SLIGHTLY more jobs will be created OR does this report reveal the " cream of the crop "?
Fascinating 40 page report ....
Read the articles at ( Main article is LA TIMES )
LA TIMES
FOX NEWS
WASHIGTON EXAMINER
HUFF POST
PATTERICO
HOTAIR
NY TIMES
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES
Friday, September 17, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
HOMELAND SECURITY AND PENSYLVANIA COMPILE SECRET LIST OF PROTESTORS
11:30 AM EST
To silly to believe , or inevitable after Claire McCaskill and Sebelius have made comments about " RE EDUCATION " ?
Sebelius warned Insurance companies that if they raised premiums or made statements unfriendly to Obama care they would risk being denied participation in the Health Pools beginning in 2014 .
The State of Pennsylvania has been paying a private contractor to spy on non-threatening protesters exercising their First Amendment rights
Gov. Ed Rendell says he's embarrassed that the state of Pennsylvania has paid a non profit group $125,000.00 to compile a list of protesters in order to protect "public infrastructure."
HMMMM so does Gov. Rendell expect us to believe that this happened in his state and the Department of Homeland Security reviewed the data, made observations about the protesters and provided that to law enforcement and government officials as well as gas drilling companies, and the good governor KNEW NOTHING about it ?
HMMMM what could that imply ? That he is a BOZO and should resign ?
That his administration is rotten to the core ?
Perhaps the REAL answer is that this goes back to the White House ( Which it does because HHS is involved ) and because the news has leaked out he is SHOCKED ?
The SURVEILLANCE involved protesters against shale gas drilling, a rally regarding education and ANTI-TAX EFFORTS .
So what we have here is a STATE within our borders , surveilling private citizens involved in a peaceful , non violent gathering ,exercising their FIRST AMENDMENT rights .
The names ( Could we draw the reasonable conclusion that photos, audio and video also exist ?) are then compiled into a " MASTER LIST " .
This list is then sent to the DEPARTMENT of HOMELAND SECURITY , and HHS analyzes the information and makes observations and sends ALL the information back to LAW ENFORCEMENT and GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS , AND the very companies that are the target of the protests !
Does Janet Napolitano have so much spare time on her hands because she has secured the Mexican border and run all the Terrorists out of the country and changed and TESTED all the failed policies of TSA concerning terrorists aboard international flights ending in America she is spying on Americans for grins and giggles ?
QUESTIONS :
**Is ED Rendell in weekly contact with RAHM and other White House Thugs ?
Is he on the " morning strategy call with GEORGE STEPHANOPOULUS and White House staff ?
**When will the data be made PUBLIC ?
**Who at HHS authorized this ?
**Did action by HHS require authorization from the White House ?
**Where is the list of Agencies , people , and companies that the information was disseminated to ?
**What will ERIC HOLDER and the DOJ do about this ?
**Why do we have laws that forbid the CIA from this kind of action on U.S. soil and yet HHS is free to do it ? ( is this more of a " FAILED BUSH POLICY " that OBAMA has embraced ?)
** Where is the A.C.L.U and why haven't they sent a wide eyed college to a fedral court building to file a lawsuit ?
** Why has NO ONE been fired or resigned ?
** Shouldn't Gov. Ed Rendell resign ?
** Is Gov. Ed Rendell so incompetent that this happened and he knew NOTHING About it?
**Did Gov. Ed Rendell know about it the whole time and kept quiet ?
Seems like a " I am shocked " is just not going to work for this act of FASCISM .
The best part of it all ?
The information came to light ONLY because the news about the warnings came out via an e-mail the state actually sent – by mistake – to and opponent of a gas drilling project.
"It's 1939 all over again , vote for a corrupt Democrat and Obama will lead us to FASCISM "
LA , LA , LA
To silly to believe , or inevitable after Claire McCaskill and Sebelius have made comments about " RE EDUCATION " ?
Sebelius warned Insurance companies that if they raised premiums or made statements unfriendly to Obama care they would risk being denied participation in the Health Pools beginning in 2014 .
The State of Pennsylvania has been paying a private contractor to spy on non-threatening protesters exercising their First Amendment rights
Gov. Ed Rendell says he's embarrassed that the state of Pennsylvania has paid a non profit group $125,000.00 to compile a list of protesters in order to protect "public infrastructure."
HMMMM so does Gov. Rendell expect us to believe that this happened in his state and the Department of Homeland Security reviewed the data, made observations about the protesters and provided that to law enforcement and government officials as well as gas drilling companies, and the good governor KNEW NOTHING about it ?
HMMMM what could that imply ? That he is a BOZO and should resign ?
That his administration is rotten to the core ?
Perhaps the REAL answer is that this goes back to the White House ( Which it does because HHS is involved ) and because the news has leaked out he is SHOCKED ?
The SURVEILLANCE involved protesters against shale gas drilling, a rally regarding education and ANTI-TAX EFFORTS .
So what we have here is a STATE within our borders , surveilling private citizens involved in a peaceful , non violent gathering ,exercising their FIRST AMENDMENT rights .
The names ( Could we draw the reasonable conclusion that photos, audio and video also exist ?) are then compiled into a " MASTER LIST " .
This list is then sent to the DEPARTMENT of HOMELAND SECURITY , and HHS analyzes the information and makes observations and sends ALL the information back to LAW ENFORCEMENT and GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS , AND the very companies that are the target of the protests !
Does Janet Napolitano have so much spare time on her hands because she has secured the Mexican border and run all the Terrorists out of the country and changed and TESTED all the failed policies of TSA concerning terrorists aboard international flights ending in America she is spying on Americans for grins and giggles ?
QUESTIONS :
**Is ED Rendell in weekly contact with RAHM and other White House Thugs ?
Is he on the " morning strategy call with GEORGE STEPHANOPOULUS and White House staff ?
**When will the data be made PUBLIC ?
**Who at HHS authorized this ?
**Did action by HHS require authorization from the White House ?
**Where is the list of Agencies , people , and companies that the information was disseminated to ?
**What will ERIC HOLDER and the DOJ do about this ?
**Why do we have laws that forbid the CIA from this kind of action on U.S. soil and yet HHS is free to do it ? ( is this more of a " FAILED BUSH POLICY " that OBAMA has embraced ?)
** Where is the A.C.L.U and why haven't they sent a wide eyed college to a fedral court building to file a lawsuit ?
** Why has NO ONE been fired or resigned ?
** Shouldn't Gov. Ed Rendell resign ?
** Is Gov. Ed Rendell so incompetent that this happened and he knew NOTHING About it?
**Did Gov. Ed Rendell know about it the whole time and kept quiet ?
Seems like a " I am shocked " is just not going to work for this act of FASCISM .
The best part of it all ?
The information came to light ONLY because the news about the warnings came out via an e-mail the state actually sent – by mistake – to and opponent of a gas drilling project.
"It's 1939 all over again , vote for a corrupt Democrat and Obama will lead us to FASCISM "
LA , LA , LA
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