(CNSNews.com) – The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a$1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009. Continued SOURCE: http://cnsnews.com
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I WISH I WAS MAKING THIS UP…BUT IT IS A MEASLY $205K…RIGHT?
AS I HAVE STATED…THE PEOPLE THAT WROTE IT…DO NOT KNOW THE REPERCUSSIONS OF IT
The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting the impact of looming health coverage requirements. Darden Restaurants declined to give details but said the test is only in restaurants in four markets across the country. The test entails increasing the number of [...]
IS IT TIME TO PUT EVERYONE RUNNING THE DEPT. OF ENERGY IN JAIL
President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence “manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States,” but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery plant built with $150 million in taxpayer funds is putting workers on furlough before a single battery has been produced. Workers at the Compact Power manufacturing facilities in Holland, Mich., [...]
YOU DIDN’T THINK IT WOULD BE A REPUBLICAN…DID YOU?
A wireless company profiting from the so-called “Obama phone” giveaway program is run by a prominent Democratic donor whose wife has raised more than $1.5 million for the president since 2007. Last week a video of a President Barack Obama supporter in Ohio claiming to have received a free phone from the president—“[Obama] gave us a phone!”—went viral, prompting [...]
MORE OF HE SAME. USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO FUND YOUR FRIENDS CRAPPY COMPANIES
Abound Solar, a Department of Energy $400 million loan guarantee recipient that went bankrupt earlier this year, is under investigation by officials in Weld County, Colorado. The company, which received nearly $70 million in loan funding before payments were cut off by DOE in 2011, also received a $100,000 tax break from the Colorado county [...]
10/04/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST
JUST LETTING YOU KNOW A+ As you know, yesterday, I was quite pointed in which what I thought Romney needed to do. I did not discuss with you how he needed to look. I told you that he had to have some passion, some conviction – use the numbers, but most importantly – make sure [...]
10/03/2012: GARY ON NATIONALLY SYNDICATED INVESTORS EDGE RADIO BROADCAST
JUST LETTING YOU KNOW I have received several hundred emails since I appeared on TV on Fox Business News today asking me, what I do I want to see out of the debates tonight? As you know, I do not pull any punches here. I have no favorites and can’t stand any of the politicians [...]
IF THEY WERE PAYING FOR IT, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE SPENT IT!
Poor oversight at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs allowed agency officials to waste as much as $762,000 at a pair of multimillion-dollar conferences that took place last year in Orlando, according to an investigative report released Monday. The report, released by the VA’s independent watchdog, estimated that the agency spent about $6.1 million on the two [...]
NOW PHONES FOR VOTES!
A program that provides subsidized phone service to low-income individuals has nearly doubled in size in Ohio in the past year — now covering more than a million people. At the same time, federal officials say they’re reining in waste, fraud and abuse in the program. The Federal Communications Commission announced recently that reforms have [...]
JUST SICKENING…JUST F—ING SICKENING! CONTINUED RAPING OF THE TAXPAYER!
The federal government is making another big bet on solar panel manufacturing with taxpayer money, hoping the third time will be the charm. SoloPower held its grand opening Thursday in Portland, Ore., with speeches from local politicians and a ribbon-cutting. “It really revolutionizes rooftop applications, and it makes solar both easy and cost effective for [...]
