Officials in Jackson county are not happy that they didn’t see any of the millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for “shovel-ready” projects. Those officials worked with the administration of Gov. Jennifer Granholm to compile lists of projects that could quickly be launched if money from the American Recovery [...]
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has named the small Lake Huron town of Alpena as one of the 19 communities where the department’s Biorefinery Assistance Program will fund pilot projects to develop new fuels from biomass.
American Process, an Atlanta based company, was awarded $17.9 million to develop a [...]
The non-stimulus stimulus boondoggle was signed into law in February. Obama promised that if porkulus were passed, that the unemployment rate would peak at no more than 8%. How did that work out? Not so good:
Lots of money that doesn't exist going to districts that don't exist. That's Obama's America.The Dept. of Energy’s $243 million allocation for weatherization assistance in Michigan had fixed up just seven houses as of Sept. 30, according to a status report issued this month by the state Economic Recovery Office.
The weatherization program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is managed by [...]
The Detroit Free Press reports on their own study of more than 1,800 government reports that concludes, despite state government claims that stimulus project spending has created or retained 22,500 jobs in Michigan, that stimulus money has failed to create any significant number of jobs at all since the [...]
Just keep this chart in mind when they come back, in the near future, for debtslaveryus stimulus 2.0. Remember – the politicians are lying to you.
Stimulus Fail
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The state House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that would use the remaining federal stimulus money to restore some of the cuts to public schools… However, it may not pass the senate. Michigan Radio’s Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry takes a look at what’s going on...
