“Stimulus” Spending Features A Boatload Of “Questionable” Projects

From the Washington Examiner  (Pics added by B.S. Report)

The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:

- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.

- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies.

- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.

- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.

- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.

- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.

- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.

- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.

- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.

- $9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.

- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.

- $6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.

- $173,834 to weatherize eight pickup trucks in Madison County, Ill.

- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–Many of us flippantly made jokes about the “stimulus” asking, “Hey, I can use a stimulus!  Where’s mine?”  Well, based on more and more of the spending projects that are starting to come to light, perhaps we could have qualified for a “stimulus.”

It seems strange to give Microsoft an $11 million dollar gift.  I know times are tough but Bill Gates could probably still spring for that, can’t he? As we’ve said all along, the “stimulus” has never really been about reviving the economy–it’s always been about government getting more and more power over you and the private sector economy.

Sorry, with all due respect Mr. President, your "stimulus" package was a load of crap then and it's a load of crap now. All you "stimulated" was the pockets of your cronies.