You've been duped, and it's all your fault

Published on July 21, 2009 By CharlesCS In Politics

Try as I might, I just can't bring myself to see why so many still believe Obama will save the world, or at least the US. What is it about a man who few knew anything about, who had done very little, who has hardly any experience and who the only thing he has going for him is the incredible ability to keep up with a TelePrompTer that has so many people almost worshiping him?

Well, all I can say is that if you still think Obama is the answer to all of our problems, you need to get your head exam-ed. Just to give you an idea, here are some of the things being paid by the "stimulus package" that was suppose to save our economy, jobs and our country from the "worst financial crisis since the Great Depression":

- $2.2 million to the Seneca Foods Corporation in Marion, NY for "fruit, canned;" the same company received another contract worth $196,797 also, for "fruit, canned"

- $4.8 million for "frozen, sliced ham"

- $5.3 million for "deli-style turkey breast" from the Jennie-O Turkey company

- $5.5 million in "canned fruit" from the Del Monte Corporation

- $16.8 million in "canned pork" from Lakeside Foods Inc

- $971,711.42 to "replace pond liners" at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery in Cole Harbor, N.D.

- $193,077 for a "double-vault toilet building" at the Hoyer Campground in Spokane, Wash.

- $254,000 for "pre-fabricated restroom facilities" in Atlanta, Ga.

- $487,944 for "toilet buildings and vaults" in the Pike and San Isabel National Forest

- $17,110 in hotel bills at a Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va., for the Employment Standards Administration's annual "Prevailing Wage Conference."

- $1.8 million for the "renovation of Slate Hill Barn and Hay Shed" in Front Royal, Va. According to the database the money was requested by the Smithsonian Institution.

- $326,304 for "roadside vegetation removal" in the Six Rivers National Forest in Eureka, Calif.

- $928,194.50 to nine different firms to provide an "increased level of effort for dtv [digital television] installation"

- $25.3 million for the National Institutes of Mental Health to study schizophrenia

- $65 million for NASA's James Webb telescope project

- $20 million for "sediment removal" at the EPA's Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site

- $6,066.18 to buy "three laptop computers" for the National Fish and Wildlife Service

- $4,250 for "short-term vehicle rental" from Enterprise Rent-A-Car in order to "run errands" in Kings Canyon National Park in King's Canyon, Calif.

- $840 to "disassemble" one desk and "properly reassemble and relocate" 2 other desks in Reston, Va.

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I don't know about you but I'm sure glad my taxes are being so well spent. I mean I'm glad we'll have all these new toilets and restrooms at these parks. Imagine if some employees in these Enterprise rentals happen to eat to much of the deli-style turkey breast, sliced ham, canned fruit and canned pork as they were checking out the new replacement pond liner and had the need to go to the restroom and happen to be passing by these new toilets and restroom. Talk about a relief. Then after that they could finish with the roadside vegetation removal while checking out the Slate Hill Barn and Hay Shed and then disassemble" one desk and "properly reassemble and relocate" 2 other desks and once done they can go relax at their hotels and browse the Internet on their new laptops and use the new dtv installation to watch a TV show about NASA's James Webb telescope project because after all of this you just might want to make sure sufficient research is done for schizophrenia, you never know if you might need it.

I guess we can ignore the facts that Obama promised to save jobs (which he hasn't), keep unemployment at 8% (which it isn't), keep lobbyist our of his Administration (which he hasn't), make friends with Iran and N Korea thru diplomacy (which hasn't worked), close down Guantanamo Bay within a year (which does not seem likely anymore and don't even know they gonna do with those locked up in there), bring the troops home from Iraq fast (which it's obvious he already broke), not tax the poor and middle class (which no one seems know where middle class stops and rich begins or to be able to explain how he won't tax them with the cap and trade and health bills he's rushing thru Congress), or even be a transparent Administration (yea right, we haven't even see his birth certificate yet).

Yea, who cares that the Obama Administration has screwed up and lied more in 6 months than Bush did in 8 years and will cause far more damage that Bush could ever. $23 trillion, that's how much some out there estimate Obama will put our debt at. Sounds a bit exaggerated, personally I would put it somewhere around 5 to 10 trillion and that my friends is still a number most people never knew existed or understand or could even say how many 0s there are in it. As one Senator put it, if you spend $1 million every day from here to Christ birth it would not even come to 1 trillion.

I don't know about you but I never believed Obama from day one and if at this point you still think he can fix our problems, that he can make things better, that his policies are what this country needs to succeed; then maybe you will also benefit from the "$25.3 million for the National Institutes of Mental Health to study schizophrenia", cause you are either crazy or stupid, and that is my personal opinion, and probably the opinion of those on this poll:

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Comments (Page 2)

CharlesCS

on Jul 22, 2009

Funny, I don't find that to be sad at all.

Well, he is more sad than the comment, that's for sure.

aeortar

on Jul 23, 2009

$2.2 million to the Seneca Foods Corporation in Marion, NY for "fruit, canned;

You'd have prefered it if it was $4m for "fruit, fresh;"?

CharlesCS

on Jul 23, 2009

You'd have prefered it if it was $4m for "fruit, fresh;"?

I would prefer an explanation as to why we should be paying for canned or fresh fruit as part of an effort to save our economy. I, personally, don't know how new toilets at parks, employee car rentals, deli-style turkey and cleaning vegitation of the side of roads will somehow improve our economy. makes me wonder why we never thought about this before.

aeortar

on Jul 23, 2009

It can help improve the economy by generating demand and thus helping reduce or even prevent the negative spiral of people cutting back on spending causing firms to make less money, cut back on workers/pay, causing people to reduce spending even further etc.;

As for some of the specific items, the food can help stop people starve, or provide a cost efficient means of remuneration (for staff) or reward (e.g. for an event). Cleaning vegitation can help make the roads+pavement cleaner and safer, enhancing them for both the people living nearby and those who use them. This could also potentially improve the economy by making it easier for people to travel to work and reducing incapacity rates (from say someone slipping on some leaves). Employee car rentals can prove a useful remuneration measure, and depending on the nature of the job cars might be necessary. New toilets at parks help provide a service to anyone who uses the park or is in the vicinity.

Perhaps you could give examples of what you think expenditure that would benefit the economy would be?

CharlesCS

on Jul 24, 2009

Perhaps you could give examples of what you think expenditure that would benefit the economy would be?

OK, I'll bite. Instead of posting here I will create an article within the next couple of days pointing as to what I think could be good for the economy and also for our health.

Nitro Cruiser

on Jul 26, 2009

Hot dogs instead of ham for starters.

Just curious if the fuit, meat, and services went to buisnesses in a Democrat or Republican district. Nothing like a little pork in your own backyard, keeps the natives voting your way.

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