STIMILUS MONEY FOR JOBS MISAPPROPRIATED

The City of Oakland, which has struggled with a 17.7 percent unemployment rate, received $3 million in Federal stimulus money last year for summer youth, adult and dislocated worker programs. A substantial sum was instead spent on trips to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk and a Concord water park, rent, church repairs, bus passes, salaries and car allowances, according to a state review released Tuesday. More than $830,000 of the money received under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from February to December 2009 was not properly accounted for or was misspent, according to the report. 

COMMENTS:

As if we taxpayers didn’t know all along that these things were going to happen with that money. Everyone involved should go to jail for misappropriation of public funds.

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:

Q. What do you think businesses will do in response to the mandatory health insurance? (Benji ~ Paso Robles, CA)
A. They have the following choices: (1) raise costs of the goods and services, which makes them less competitive in the market place against foreign-based firms, (2) move their plants and phone centers out of the country to avoid the mandate and remain competitive in the market place, (3) go out of business. You lose regardless of what they choose.

Q. Now radical lefties are accusing the Tea Parties of talking about extermination? (Phyllis ~ Davenport, IA)
A. I think the tea parties are planning of using rat poison so, unless those guys are rats, they don’t have anything to worry about. (Hey, fellahs!  Where are you all scurrying off to?)  Seriously, how absurd can you get? The FBI and other law enforcement would be all over it. And, what would it gain them? People saying such things are openly displaying their ignorance. My suggestion is for everyone to attend a Tea Party meeting in their area and to find out for themselves.

Q. Why do you really think Obama has refused to release his background records, like college and organizations? (Myrtle ~ Redding, CA)
A. Because there’s something in there he needs to hide.  Incidentally, and I said it way back when he was running, if he refuses such information how can he promise the country “transparency?” Sorry to keep repeating it but, I guess I was right again.

TODAY’S QUOTE:

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false." ~ Paul Johnson

TODAY’S VIDEO:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4160728/geico-guys-inflammatory-call

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