Story from Big Government here: http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/19/obama-to-taxpayers-america-needs-mor...
the main thing i got from this story (besides the fact that the stimulus is crap, which we know!) is that there is a website called stimuluswatch.org where you can view and VOTE on whether you're happy with the money being spent that way. Some of the bigger wastes of course are the picnic tables.
I found it informative. You can browse by state and many other options. Have fun voting, if you can stomach the outrage you feel! 
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I'll go to the site and browse again. It's pretty depressing though!
1Great Post Brookrene
OMG! I found this there....and considering we have big groups of protestors yelling about our college fees going up it sure is nice to know HOW colleges are spending their stimulus money!
Check this one out!
http://stimuluswatch.org/2.0/awards/view/2798/explaining-the-african-vot...
2I swear...WTF?! Thank goodness I paid all my taxes so that we can figure out how people in AFRICA vote. How many jobs created with that $234,000? What's that, zero? oh, huh. well don't worry we've got all those picnic tables that need to be delivered. that will be LOTS of jobs. oh, what? No jobs have been created with that either? hmmm...
3Yeah...I posted it in Brain Pharts and Political Refuse.
If this isn't money spent for nothing of ANY meaningful value...not to mention NO jobs were created by using these funds.
....I gotta say....this would more than have paid for my three kids to get their undergraduate educations.
4If we can survive the next 12 months, we may have a small chance of returning to some form of sanity.
5Lord I sure hope so GPa!
6The picnic tables are necessary. Think of all the out of work, foreclosed on people who have no where to eat. Now they can sit at these lovely wooden picnic tables, in a park like setting, like civilized folk and enjoy a meal while picking splinters from each others bums.
7It is also interesting to go and click on California, then Fairfield, and see how much money they are getting to redo roads.....roads that mostly surround a military base....and instead of asking for all the money in one stimulus request they made several requests.....so it does not seem they are getting so much money when in fact it is ridiculous!
HOW they did it makes them seem even more sneaky. I'd like to see them have to turn in receipts. I think they got stimulus to redo the same roads over and over and over.
......and we paid to resurface a parking lot for Burger King....yeah..money well spent? NO.
There is also several requests for numerous TONS of peanut products. Are you asking WTHeck? I did. There is no explanation at all....just some dude near San Diego who must be planning a peanutbutter attack somewhere. Seriously over 25,000 tons of peanut products.
829 palms got 6 million!!!! I think it is insane that they can't keep up the military bases, but Obama cannot be seen as givig military more funding, so we will give them stimulus money!!!
9and over 10 million for edwards afb
10wth does this mean ??? "Increase Demand for Services to provide medical services to the uninsured."
11"commercial real estate appraisal" we paid 4 grand to apraise a building!!!! In Bakersfield of all places.
12"Planning for a Math and Science Insstitute Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley of California" A private college that charges $40,000 a person needs help, WTH
13Seriously....I gotta learn to write grant proposals. I need a new bathroom and three kids need college funds. I wonder if I could get them to give them car allowances? Googling that now.
Why should I pay for this and get nothing in return?
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