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Stimulus Spending – $8,556 for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

June 8, 2009 Opinion View Comments

During the debate over the much touted “Porkulus” package we heard the President claim how many hundreds of thousands of jobs it would create. That said however those jobs are failing to materialize and will continue to fail to materialize as long as those funds are being directed to lost-cause type programs.

For example, the city of Cincinnati, OH is setting aside a block grant of $8,556 for a program to prevent teen pregnancy and violence. How many jobs is that supposed to create or save Mr. President?!?

From Cincinnati.com:

The list of local applications for the Community Development Block Grants also includes $61,200 for sidewalks in Forest Park, $93,000 for air conditioners in Sharonville and $56,008 for playground renovations in Hamilton.

In Woodlawn and Lincoln Heights, taxpayers will spend $100,000 to resurface one-seventh of a mile of Prairie Avenue, and install curbs for 20 houses along the way – a project that Rev. Jesse O’Conner hopes will stop the flooding in his basement.

Isn’t it nice to know that taxpayers in Alaska are helping to fund a project on Prairie Avenue that will help the Rev. Jesse O’Conner from having water in his basement? Where are the Separation of Church and State Nazis on this one?!?

I’m sorry to inform all of you who thought that the President’s pet pork barrel spending program that he and his Democrat colleagues in the House and Senate rammed though so fast that no one, and I mean NO ONE, had an opportunity to read it before voting on it; I’m sorry but very few jobs are going to be created. And as for saving jobs? Where?!? Ohio is hemorrhaging jobs by the day and I’m sorry but those sidewalk projects and street resurfacing projects will not replace a job at a GM plant, Chrysler plant, dealership, or support company. They are short-term feel good BS infrastructure pork spending. Nothing more. Conceived to make you think that something is being done when in reality it is nothing more than a band aid attempting to dress a sucking chest wound.

So thank you America for voting for this feel-good do-nothing BS that is leading us down a path which is probably going to take the next 5 Presidents to clean up. Just think, he’s just getting started. He has another 1,321 days left in office. I shutter at the damage that he can do in his time left.

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