Even for the Federal government, this has got to be a new low.
You know how Obama is always touting green jobs from the stimulus program? And how he always brings up weatherization of homes? Well, here are a few highlights from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/obama-stimulus-weatherization.html
Well, a new report due out this morning will show the $5-billion program is so riddled with drafts that so far it's weatherized only about 9,000 homes.
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It seems that the Pelosi-Reid stimulus plan that was so quickly cobbled together and was supposed to immediately pump so much money into the sagging economy last year included an 80-year-old legal provision requiring all federally funded projects to pay a prevailing wage to workers.
But what's a prevailing wage for weatherization, you ask?
Who knows?
So the Energy Department asked the Labor Department, which set out to calculate what a prevailing weatherization wage is in every single one of the more than 3,000 counties across these United States.
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And now for the punch line (This really would be funny if we weren't going into debt to fund this nonsense)
The Energy folks did tell ABC they've so far spent $522 million Recovery Act dollars on the program. Which works out to, let's see, about $57,362 worth of very expensive weatherstripping for each home fixed up so far.
Read the entire article, and remember it when you go to the polls in November.
You know how Obama is always touting green jobs from the stimulus program? And how he always brings up weatherization of homes? Well, here are a few highlights from http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/02/obama-stimulus-weatherization.html
Well, a new report due out this morning will show the $5-billion program is so riddled with drafts that so far it's weatherized only about 9,000 homes.
...
It seems that the Pelosi-Reid stimulus plan that was so quickly cobbled together and was supposed to immediately pump so much money into the sagging economy last year included an 80-year-old legal provision requiring all federally funded projects to pay a prevailing wage to workers.
But what's a prevailing wage for weatherization, you ask?
Who knows?
So the Energy Department asked the Labor Department, which set out to calculate what a prevailing weatherization wage is in every single one of the more than 3,000 counties across these United States.
...
And now for the punch line (This really would be funny if we weren't going into debt to fund this nonsense)
The Energy folks did tell ABC they've so far spent $522 million Recovery Act dollars on the program. Which works out to, let's see, about $57,362 worth of very expensive weatherstripping for each home fixed up so far.
Read the entire article, and remember it when you go to the polls in November.