{"id":12624,"date":"2012-03-08T13:52:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T18:52:06","slug":"where-is-the-accountability-to-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12624","title":{"rendered":"Where Is The Accountability To Taxpayers ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart.com<\/a>\u00a0is reporting today on where some of the stimulus money went.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

A portion of an $11 million grant to help 400 low-income Detroit citizens purchase “business attire” for job interviews helped exactly two people, a city audit reveals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The audit revealed that the clothing program was supposed to help 400 people. Instead, two people were helped. The people asking for the clothing were required to have a job interview scheduled. Part of the audit included an investigation into the purchase of $182,000 worth of high-end furniture for a department office. In 2009, the department received more than $11 million in stimulus funding<\/a> and created a service center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The center, at 1970 Larned, included the Customer Choice Pantry, the New Beginnings Clothing Boutique and a call center that had the capacity to service 60,000 families in need. The boutique was to provide business attire for low-income residents for job interviews.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is sad. The money could have been used to help people out of poverty. Instead it is used to build government infrastructure. Until we have a poverty program that has incentives for government bureaucrats to get people out of poverty instead of building their own facilities and job security, we will never end the poverty cycle.<\/p>\n

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