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Once Again, Supposedly Stimulus Money that is going into more Rich People Pockets instead of helping needed Citizens. The US is looking more like the Old Soviet Union every day when we used to say “Better Dead than Red”
Wait a second! You mean government wasted our money??? … I don’t believe it : /
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Emudude this is not a case of “evil rich people” as the left loves to blame everything on. No, this is, just as the text says, due to the inefficiency of having the government run a program. These “administrative costs, such as the salaries of state workers” are I’m sure going to mid level government employees – hardly rich people – but the sheer volume of them can quickly mount up costs. Remember, any government program must have people running it, and in the government that means roughly 3 times more people than the private sector. Add the various regulations, redundancies, and compliance policies, soon each department takes on its own life and becomes much like a mini corporation in its own right.
This is why I am so distrustful of any claims that the health care reform bills will save anything. New bureaus and departments are being created to do nothing more than make policies and generate paperwork. Soon it will be $2 million for 7 flu shots.
That alright, after all the government is paying for this expense. Glad Buckwheat had some left after Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana got their Healthcare voting bribe money. Just more “Hoax and Shame” across America.
Shocked, I’m Shocked!!! Does this happen a lot?
Don’t mess with Tejas.
That’s one of the only few states in this nation that are
running in The Black.
If you want to know who approved these ridiculous expenditures, just take a look in the mirror! Allowing this sort of waste and corruption for decades in this country has left us weak-willed and easily taken over by a bunch of communists. So stop being so outraged and whiny! The question is: what are you going to DO about it? Can’t figure it out, can you? I wasn’t kidding when I said weak-willed. Stupid, too. What’s black and white and Red all over? Barack Hussein Obama.
That’s about $200,000 per home. Now that I think of it, I’d caulk this home for $200,000.00! I’d caulk it TWICE.
General Electric is a major producer of caulk. Just another link between the Obama administration and GE.
It would be comical if it were not actually plausible.
Chris Kofinis is a tool, always pointing the finger at someone else…like his hero does!
Chris Kofinis + Barry Obama = Lewinsky Madness
temple62: can you express your opinion without the racist comment? It diminishes your argument when comments like this are posted. Your message was good, your choice of words not so good.
Radical democratic progressive theme: Grow gov’t, not jobs and prosperity.
temple62, please don’t call the worthless Mulatto Buckwheat – it is demeaning toward a good oldtime TV show.
These government employees are, in fact, rich people. An accountant can compute the value of their pension and benefits package. When you do the math, computing the “net present value” many government employees wind up with a net worth of over a million dollars, no risk from investments and the most generous healthcare plans out there.
I caulked my home. My whole 2 story 3 bedroom home cost me $36 to caulk every window sill and door flap.
$36
$36
$36——-CAN YOU SEE THIS? — $36 dollars……. why does hussein obama (muslim name) spend a MILLION dollars to caulk a house?
WHY DOES NO ONE DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?
It is January, 2011 and the new Congress & Senate are now in session. Wait, look out the window! They’re walking Obama, Emmanuel, Axelrod, Jarret, Eric Holder, Cass Sunstein, Robert Reich, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Bill Ayers, Reverend Wright, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and many, many others out of the White House in handcuffs!!! Praise the Lord! Amazing Grace!!! Sing it!
My degree is in Building Construction Technology. I have been an estimator, Superintendent and Project Manager. The maximul that seven houses should cost, if the whole house was done inside and out, is $4,000 total.
This government is totally out of control. We need to take back our country and take it back now. Waiting for an election where there is no assurance that it will be fair is not an option.
Quit complaining, its not your money. The ones who should really be upset are the thugs who run China.
Our government leaders do not get it: Keynesian economics does not work.
When it was first used in the US during the GD our economy was mostly agrarian and industrial and it was mostly closed. The idea that we could get a multiplier effect of a pulse of government spending conceptually made sense: But no more.
With many of our products manufactured off shore and much of our industrial work done by illegal aliens, the Keynesian multiplier is one or less: We are not even getting $1 worth of benefit for a #1 worth of stimulus spending.
The multiplier used to support the massive Obama stimulus package was less than 2. In reality, it must have been less than 1. As a result, not only are we creating huge deficits through these irresponsible government actions but their stimulus is spilling over in to other economies.
If you accept the notion that investment spending is necessary to create jobs (in the long run) and that this spending must be financed with savings. Then it should be clear that not only is stimulus spending not working but it is progressively damaging. It makes it harder for our economy to recover. The private enterprises that actually create jobs must compete with the government to get financing.
The author’s point of spending on projects that improve the efficiency of the US economy would be an improvement on the current pork barrel mentality of Congress; however, it will not work to move the economy back to full employment.
Maybe the Chinese will figure this out and stop funding Washington waste.
This makes the $600 toilet seat and the $100 hammer seem reasonable…..
It’s Texas. George Bush and Cheney got the money….
Well, Hussien said that “Caulking was sexy” apparently REAL SEXY!!
What is more important? Saving the world from global warming or a little tax-payer money. Your share of that money would only be pennies.
they worked on the houses………..they CAULKED the TAXPAYERS !!!!!!!
This is a pure case of negligence on the part of the State of Texas to spend the money wisely. Governments always have this attitude to syphon- off outrageous administrative costs even before any of the real work on the ground gets done. “Inefficienty” is governments trademark.
Hey, I have an idea! Let’s let the government run health care!!
As the greatest President (Reagan) in my lifetime said “Government is not the Solution to the Problem, Government is The Problem!” This is just another sorry waste of Taxpayers dollars. Add this to the very long list of our Government’s failures. Government can not spend Money it doesn’t have to create jobs. The only jobs being created are Government jobs from an increasingly growing bloated Government Monstrosity. Limited Government controlled by “The People” NOT Special Interest Groups is the first step in the solution to fixing our problems. If our Government really wants to put people back to work they need to cut taxes on small businesses and create tax breaks for hiring new employees. One thing is certain if we do not stop government growth nothing else will work!
face it, obama wants to ruin America. If you want stimulas, cut corporate taxes, bring jobs to America
I just did a quick calculation. I found out that you could build 7 (20,000) sq foot houses ENTIRELY out of caulk for that amount. This assumes that you purchase latex caulk at $1/tube. Now if we’re talking luxury digs, you could still build about 7 (3,000) sq ft houses out of that fancy silicon stuff. We haven’t seen this much caulk since Clinton was in office!
Gotta love it when the libs are in power.
Maybe they used the same caulk that is used to glue the tiles on the space shuttle. I hear that it’s pretty expensive stuff, but with global warming getting worse, you’ll need that kind of caulk to withstand the 200+ degree temps we can expect in a couple of years!
It’s amazing how long it has taken for the vast majority of people to catch on to the big scam.
Everybody’s natural instincts should have kicked in to overdrive, the minute “IT” walked on to the scene…
But I guess… not…
If anybody thinks for a single minute that this garbage that was just uncovered in Texas is a big deal,
then you better stand by, casue you’ll probably find out some pretty wild crap in just a few short weeks.
Probably make this look like a kid stealing a 2 Cent piece of bubble gum from the corner drug store.
And they want to touch our health care?
Flounder, please tell me that you’re being sarcastic! Nobody can make such idiotic arguments and still be competent to type. Be like Barry — blame Bush! Don’t worry, it’s only the Government’s money — not that there really is any such thing until they steal it from working Americans.
PLEASE tell me your tongue is firmly in your cheek!
What a WASTE of taxpayer dollars!!! Can anybody say where’s the “bang for the buck” in this deal?? What a farce!
I did a little calculation on this wasted $2 million bucks of taxpayer money. The average (median) price of single family detached homes in the Dallas Fort Worth area as of 2009 is roughly $131,000 – average price of ‘one’ home. For that same $2 million you could “buy” “15″ HOMES outright instead of just ‘caulking’ these 7 homes in this charade called a stimulus package. It simply boggles the mind when one considers this Administration’s sheer amount of governmental ineptitude and lack of any fiscal accountability whatsoever before the American people, whom this Administration has essentially robbed blind spending taxpayer’s money like there is no tomorrow.
When you have a former crack cocaine junkie running the White House and who also has NO experience running anything EVER in his entire life until ‘now’ is it any wonder then why America is currently on a downward spiral towards bankruptcy and economic ruin? When crooks, tax cheats, and former drug addicts, who appear NOT to be fully rehabilitated as evidenced by their juvenile behavior(s), are in charge of running this Country then all I have to say is God help us.
Let’s do “our” part too, while gathering all of our friends and neighbors and family together and let’s join “united” in running these liberal shysters called politicians out of office come Nov. 2010 & 2012 shall we? Can I hear an amen?
Okay, you can go ahead and caulk a few more homes if you want to Barack. Just watch your back come Nov. 2012… cause you’re going down sucka. 
The American people have spoken!! And the majority are saying NObama! NO mas! NO more! You LIED! You LIE! You’re THROUGH!
Whew…glad socialistic government takeover is workin’ out so well! I was starting to get worried that the government might not be able to handle Obamacare. BTW, buy stock in CAULK!
Amen Mike!
America…goes to prove that the government…especially this present government…should have no charge over these types of programs…they are corrupt…they are deceptive…they are socialist/communist/islamics trying to destroy America from within!
America…2010 is our chance to vote in ‘conservatives’ with values and principles that parallel our founding fathers and adhere to our Constitution…which has been run roughshod over by this administration!
This is our money! This is money our children have not even made! They are spending us into the abyss and destroying the future of our families…they have to be removed!
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Massachusetts you are going to be the vote that is heard around the world on January 19th!
All conservatives in Masschusetts…get involved at your local level! Volunteer…spread the truths to your friends, family and neighbors and help to get out the vote!
If the ‘mentally unstable’ Democratzi can get the first Kenyan/Muslim President elected in our “Christian” nation…we can get him and his henchmen removed from office with our ‘legal’ votes!
Get er done…Massachusetts…”real” Americans are depending on you to set the bar in 2010 and beyond!
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1. GETTING INFORMED
2. GETTING INVOLVED
3. GETTING OUT THE VOTE
WE WILL REMOVE THE ‘MENTALLY UNSTABLE’ DEMOCRATZI STARTING WITH NEW JERSEY IN 2009, INTO 2010 AND BEYOND…GUARANTEED!
IMPEACHMENT OR THE ‘ORIGINAL’ KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE…IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME!
That’s some mighty fine caulking you done there fellers. You SEIU boys sure use a lot of stuff on them thar’ houses…. How many did you say you done? Seven, WOO WEE you fellers sure must be plummed tuckered out. How much did it cost us hick taxpayers 1.8 million? Shoot that’s just a drop in the bucket to that there Obamer feller ain’t it? It ain’t like it’s “REAL” money now does it???
KJB seems your political correctness is showing, don’t you know that PC KILLS. Terrorist gets on plane because he fits the criteria for a terrorist, but we can’t stereotype him because that would be politically incorrect. Buckwheat, I got a big kick out of that, however I know what you mean people are more willing to accept a ‘more mature’ comment like “Our dear leader loves to point the finger”. My question is why are people weatherizing in TX? Send some of that money to the Midwest for weatherizing.
Calm down people! We’ve been told that we need to spend money to get ourselves and this country out of this huge economic hole! It’s just part of the plan! Couple of months and we’ll be on Easy Street! Give it time! (Damn, must be some REALLY expensive caulk!!)
I’m surprised that anyone would really be surprised by this news. Every day government employees show up for work, play on the computer, read the newspaper, spend a couple hours on lunch and breaks, zerox their church, children’s, spouse’s, personal information and papers on work equipment. I’d be willing to bet my life that the government gets about 40 percent of work out of all of the government employees (on average). That, is being generous. I spent over 32 years analyzing the efficiency and effectiveness with jobs, or mainly, lack thereof. Yeah, the administrative costs for employing a whole lot of people and supplies that do nothing with 60 percent of their time, is expensive. The bigger the government gets, the worse this problem will be and the more they will want from us to pay for these “job”.
What a fu***** joke!! But not a surprise. mmm…mmm…mmm
What surprises me is they spent only $1.8 MIL. They probably insist they came in under-budget. How much did ACORN and SEIU charge for their advice on this project? And don’t tell me they weren’t at this trough. It was done by union caulkers, right??
Sorry Holly, no money for weatherizing in the Midwest. We are busy killing fish over here. It cost $3,000,000 to kill one carp.
I think the money would have been better spent on having a fishing tournament and giving anyone that caught a carp a few hundred dollars. It would have been cheaper, safer for the environment, and would have given the unemployed something to do for the day. Instead it was just a water poisoning fish massacre. It’s what some of the environmental groups do when they are not declaring CO2 a pollutant or taking a plane to a global warming conference.
Can Any body go to Washington and stop the bleeding? Pretty soon they will have enough slush fund money to rig elections for the next 20 years. Will a true savior appear to clean up all of the filth we have in scumville?
Fox news is a joke. I used to watch to get a balanced view, but they don’t even try to be unbiased. It is really hard for an average American to get news that isn’t opinions laded drivel. Gov. Perry is the biggest JOKE this country has ever seen!!! The money was given to Texas to create jobs, and this is how Gov. Perry uses it. and for Foxnews to parade a bunch of losers on the tube and give them the title of CEO of http://www.noone-hasever-or-willever-hear-of-my-company-because-likeme-itsajoke.com is embarrassing to all us Republicans who still believe that it is morning in America.
Read the story!!! Texas used the money to cover state budget shortfalls and covered Admin costs and salaries of state workers…It had nothing to do with Unions, or Obama, or Democrats. It had to do with Gov. Perry and the Republicans in Texas pissin’ the money away. Too bad, Fox news didn’t read the story before running with it!!
AMERICA, DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY!!!
GET ON YOUR PHONES & FAX MACHINES AND RAISE HE11 OVER THE INSANITY & CORRUPTION THAT IS GOING ON!
THIS HAS TO STOP!
I have some SHOVEL READY Projects for the Federal Goverment, the State Goverment, the Local Goverment, and these PORUS Overpaid Taxpayer Funded Vampires. The SHOVEL READY PROJECTS begin in Washington where there are PILES AND PILES of HORSE SH-T in Congress that needs to be cleaned up. Then at the White House there are MOUNDS of Elephant SH-T that needs shoveled and lets let the Senators and Congresspeople and all their RICH Lobbyists shovel in the hot sun or in the freezing rain or snow. Lets see them start to clean up their own mess and every city, town, or village they go to with their shovels they have to give the PEOPLE (i.e AMERICAN CITIZENS) their JOBS and each and every benefit that members of Congress receive. Lastly, every Congressperson and Senator and everyone in the White House (Elected or Appointed) must take their shovels and start protecting our Borders from ILLEGAL ALIENS and our Country from MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. Then and only then will these OVERPAID PUFFED UP FAT CATS who have stuffed BILLIONS of dollars into their coffers – in their childrens coffers – in their family member coffers – will they ever see the REAL AMERICA and by the time they are shoveling they can return to Washington or whereever else they came from long enough to pack up their personal belongings as they need to be interviewed for their roles in violating the RICO Statutes which is CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD the American Taxpayer. Then they can trade their shovel ready skills for license plate making skills.
That is CHANGE I CAN BELIEVE IN!
Nuff said.
Jeff Schrembs
Hey! I’m in Minnesota! Bring on the freaking global warming!
This is as stupid as the Air in your tires thing…..your house needs air…when you burn 1 cubic foot of gas in your furnace it needs 10 cubic feet of air….if you seal up your house too much then you start venting from your sewer drains and footer drains….now you can pull in radon gas…
Just another indication that the government can’t spend any money efficiently…Read: the nightmare before Christmas…at…
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Was one of the homes that was chalked owned by Kwame Kilpatrick of South Lake, Texas, ex-felonious mayor of Detroit. I hear he is still up to his no-good deeds to this day.
Delay or stop paying your taxes. vote incumbants out of office. buy used products and cars when you
when you can. shop for services from locals.
What would it cost to caulk all the bleeding in Washington?????????????? Oh yeah,it’s probably covered under the
new Health Care Bill! lol
Finally, something we can blame on Bush. He was governor for Texas about 16 years ago…..
This just shows the Agenda and Corruption within DC. The problem is the caulking cost probably included Administration and a new department to be added costs.
SOURCE OF ‘31 CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN 31 DAYS’: http://www.americanparchment.com
If I’m not mistaken, Texas is run by Republicans who decide where the $$$ goes. It’s Resmuglicans running the Red State of Texas… Red like Communism!!! Resmuglicans are from the “party of no!” They will do anything to regain the White House and Congress… They are un-American religious zealots… non-Christian Christians. It’s Dumya and his ilk that dragged the country down to where it was when Obama took over… Thieves! Money and Power worshiping pagans!!
Where is the Caulking Czar on this?
Why hasn’t the Caulking Czar come out and explain this situation?
Czars were pre-comunism. The red-state republicans are red-communists so it’s the resmuglican caulking chairman.
I propose the formation of an outside advisory committee and oversight panel to study and review this Texas State misuse of the carefully allocated, planned, and audited expenditures of the wisest economic stimulus package ever created by a loving, conservative, ethical and fully transparent Congress.
Must have been greedy bankers and lousy wall street hedge fund or auto CEOs out there just increasing bonuses and steeling from the taxpayers.
Shame.
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ACCOUNTABILITY – WHERE IS IT?
Who got the money for doing so little?
Who were the receipients of the money connected to directly and indirectly?
Was there a conflict of interest?
Who approved the expenditure?
Who were the approvers connected to and accountable to?
Who were these people connected to directly or indirectly?
Did these people have a conflict of interest?