{"id":1424,"date":"2009-12-09T05:47:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2009-12-09T05:47:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T05:47:54","slug":"transparency_in_stimulus_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Transparency In Stimulus Money Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill<\/a> today is reporting on some of the ways in which the stimulus money was spent.  I am sure that some of the political connections involved are purely coincidental.  <\/p>\n

$5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus went to Burson-Marsteller, a global public-relations and communications firm headed by Mark Penn.  It preserved three jobs.  Mark Penn was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pollster in the 2008 presidential election.  <\/p>\n

The article points out:<\/p>\n

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“Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.”Federal records also show that a former adviser to President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign received nearly $70,000 from that contract to help alert viewers in difficult-to-reach communities that their televisions would soon no longer receive broadcast signals.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow.  Other instances of questionable spending cited:<\/p>\n

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Two million dollars in stimulus money went to build a replica railroad as a tourist attraction in Carson City, Nev.<\/em><\/p>\n

A dinner cruise company based in Chicago received nearly $1 million in funds to combat terrorism.<\/em><\/p>\n

The State University of New York at Buffalo won $390,000 to study young adults who drink malt liquor and smoke marijuana. The National Institutes of Health got $219,000 in funds to study whether female college students are more likely to “hook up” after drinking alcohol.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article lists more examples.  Please keep these examples in mind as the debate on spending the TARP money begins! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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