Stop spending my money on porkulus road signs
Yesterday, I linked to John Ruberry’s pic of a porkulus road sign in Skokie, Illinois.
Guess what? They’re everywhere. Check your state’s Department of Transportation website. You are bound to find stimulus hype propaganda sporting the mark of the porkulus beast:
Dave Thul e-mailed me that he snapped another one of these tax-subsidized re-election billboards in his neck of the woods in Minnesota. He blogged the pic under the perfect title: “Trying to make the crap sandwich taste better.”
Writes Thul:
This isn’t just bad advertising, it’s also partly false. There are two projects taking place on this 4 mile stretch of I-35. The first project is renovations on 10 bridges that is being funded by the normal transportation bill. The second project is resurfacing and a median guardrail that is using stimuless funds.
The cost of the bridge repair is about 3 million dollars, while the cost of the two projects together will be just over 8 million dollars. So VP Biden, the overseer of the allocation of the stimuless money, is spending 5 million dollars on a road construction project but taking credit for the whole 8 million dollar project.
But wait! The president and vice president promised me accountability and transparency for this money. So I’m sure that if I surf over to recovery.gov (it’s listed on the sign above, although there’s no way to read it while driving at 70mph) I can get more information about this road construction project and where the money came from, right? Wrong.
Recovery.gov’s balance sheet for Minnesota not only doesn’t show this construction project, it doesn’t show any federal stimuless money for road construction in Minnesota. Although it does tell me that there has been $5,561,420 dollars earmarked for ‘non-entitlement grants in Hawaii.’ Let me say that again. Recovery.gov says it has allocated five and a half million dollars to the state of Minnesota for low income housing in Hawaii. Unless this means that there are rent control condos on the beach in Honolulu specifically set aside for Minnesota residents, we are getting screwed on this money.
Besides wondering how much the MN Department of Transportation spent on these signs (there was one for the northbound lanes and one for the southbound), I have to wonder about the concept of spending my tax dollars on a propaganda message designed to make me feel better about the spending of my tax dollars.
One of our staunchest fiscal conservative watchdogs, Sen. Tom Coburn, is doing something about it. He’s offering an amendment tomorrow on a bill before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that would ban all federal dollars from being misused for these de facto Obama campaign signs.
No taxpayer money for agitprop.
Where does your congressional rep stand?
202-224-3121.
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Reader Al: “I think it is ironic that the men-at work-sign [with the] man shoveling dirt looks more like a man feeding a whale!”
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I think the Wrecovery.gov logo should be pasted over every porkulus road sign. That would be real truth-in-advertising. What say you?
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Ask and ye shall receive. Reader Paul whipped up the photoshop. Sweet:
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- The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Recovery Act Putting People to Work… Installing Recovery Act Signs
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- Porkulus Money wasted… are you shocked? Me neither. - The Angry White Guy
- Biden Falsely Claims 150,000 Jobs Created By Stimulus: And Never Mind Those 2.6 Million Jobs LOST « Start Thinking Right
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- Obama Demonstrates His Porkulus Was Bogus In His Own Words « Start Thinking Right
- VP Biden Says to Expect “Scamming & Waste” of Stimulus Money on His Watch: Billions at Stake, Bring in Wile E. Coyote « Frugal Café Blog Zone
- ‘I’ll Tax the Heat, I’ll Tax Your Feet’: Britain’s a Mess with Its Punishing Taxes, We’re Not Far Behind « Frugal Café Blog Zone
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Where did I put the SuperGlue?
Just be done with it and put “Vote Democrat” on the damn signs. When I was little the town had several old WPA projects that still had “Brought to you by FDR” on them.
When Obama develops the 42 miles per gallon Caterpillar earthmover he can put his sign on those too.
Snowjobs Now!
How long before porkulus money starts buying heroic statues and noble portraits of TEH ONE to be displayed prominently in all public places?
More like “Putting America in the poorhouse.”
This would seem to prove Michelle’s point that these are re-election signs in drag!
3rd picture down also features a sign telling us to obey signs. HEH.
Sounds about right for this administration. They need to put up signs telling us about the work they’re doing, rather than letting the work speak for itself.
This would make a fascinating college history paper on the parallels between…well, you know…but unfortunately, every history instructor I know would proudly stamp such research with an F upon arrival.
– Dave Thul
Nice touch borrowing Biden’s favorite line. Got a good chuckle from that.
Anybody making “wreckovery” logo magnets? You know, to put on my car or fridge.
That would be hilarious if someone did make up a bunch of stickers, don a hard hat and went out to overlay those ridiculous signs.
This must be where the term “S&*t on a shingle!” comes from.
Just an opportunity for Red Dawn Wolverines to do cow tippings in the middle of the night.
What an ingenius program… all the jobs created are to put the signs up. This should keep America working for quite a while.
My Congressman is named Jackson. My Senators are named Durbin and Burris.
I’m screwed.
Porkulus in Chicago is paying for police overtime, buses to replace the new buses that dont work, and commuter railcars that will all be built in Canada.
If it comes to that, I’m for it!
“WOLVERINES!!!”
I live in Minnesota. Perhaps someone will come up with a bumper sticker we can use to put on those disgusting signs. Of course, it is probably illegal, and I am a law-abiding citizen, so would never dare do such an awful thing like that! Never! No, really.
And when the recovery never comes.
To quote ZERO, “it is unsustainable”.
First and last, that’s how it will play out.
southsideironworks — Never screwed, send money direct to adopted congress-critters of your choice, not to the party.
I’m way ahead of you there. I contribute directly to several Republican Senators.
I’m fortunate enough that I live close to Indiana, so my wages are spent on goods purchased on that side of the state line.
Michelle, I have a project that’s been a bit of a hobby for me – trying to get Newark’s City Subway light rail service extended over existing rail lines into two adjoining towns (including one I live in, a few hundred feet from where it would terminate). I’m so disgusted with the whole crap sandwich – I don’t want my ideas and my work being used to screw over my children, which is why I’ve been considering private funding for the project as a whole.
Here’s my proposal:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgqvrqtt_18dxmcbtrt
Yeah, it’s a Google Doc. I figured that would make it easier for me to edit and for others to have an idea of what I’m trying to do.
What do you think I should do? Should I abandon this until we get some fiscally intelligent people in control of the purse strings or just try to get private funding?
But with the price of ammunition and brass so high I have had to cut back my giving.
In the store the other night one man bought their entire stock of 30-06 ammo. As he was leaving all the cashiers gathered round and sang “What a Friend We Have In Obama“.
O/T but last Friday my sister stopped for gas in a wet county gas-n-go that also sells beer and wine. A man in front of her in the register line cashed in his $250 “stimulus” check to pay for several cases of beer and wine coolers.
Your tax dollars at work, America!
This reminds me of years ago in Louisiana every bridge, building or anything than wasn’t moveable was titled the “Huey P. Long Memorial Bridge(or whatever)”. I understand that WVa has the same Byrd syndrome.
Signs ascribing credit to a person or program are true signs of corruption.
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/
The left established that this is legal.
I remember those in Louisiana.
happyscrapper:
I had the same thought! Why not get some of those “Wreckovery” graphics made as stickers and, oops! How did that happen? Those pesky, satirical stickers are somehow covering the real logo!
I’m defending my freedom, one spam can of Warsaw Pact army surplus ammo at a time.
Ironic.
It’s a great idea for a little political guerrilla warfare! The libs have been doing that kinda thing with stop signs for awhile.
That is fine as long as it was domestic
None of that imported California stuff.
In the age of Obama let the man drink-it is at least as useful as the other plans a foot.
Where are those teenage vandals with cans of spray paint when you need the!.
Or the white-haired, retired granny vandals for that matter. Not that I would ever do such a thing. I’m just saying…
I’m sure we can find a “save the arts” chunk of turd in the Porkulus that could be used to purchase PS3 software along with classes on how to effectively use PS in creating advertisements for those willing to “get educated.”
Education is a priority to Mr. Obama, isn’t it?
So write him, have him buy you PhotoShop, get a grant to open a small printing business, print the Wreckovery logos in large full-color and get pasting!
It’s Dadaism for the 21st Century!
ArizonaNeanderthal #28
I did the same thing in Walmart a few weeks ago on .38 Specials. Did my normal race through the dept. and when I spotted a few boxes told the guy I wanted all of them. He gulped and asked if I knew how much they cost. I told him not to tell me!
The latest NRA mag has Diane Feinstein’s picture with a quote about her plans for gun control on “60 Minutes”:
“I’ll Pick The Time And The Place, No Question About That.”
That should have been Neanderthal’s #20 not 28. Too much caffeine.
Hey! I just checked KY’s projects too. Guess what I found?
WTH?!?!?! Is every state going to send millions of dollars to Hawaii? (Can someone say “hush money?)
Then I decided to go back and look at each state… EVERY state, with the exceptions of Kansas and Montana are sending a piece of the pie to Hawaii. What’s the grand total, you ask? Good question!! Drumroll please….
~$273M for this one agency in Hawaii!!
Just for kicks, I decided to look up the total for Homeland Security… They get $352M. The entire DHS! Department of Defense? $188M. Yep. They get less than this one agency in Hawaii. Department of Veterans Affairs? A paltry $11M.
What a disgrace. MM — Please, please don’t let this go! They’ve hidden this needle in a haystack, and it needs to be brought out into the open.
This is Shamulus, not Porkzilla.
simple task for a screenprinter. The base material is white ‘retroreflective film’, with stickum on one side. Comes in rolls, can be cut with a exacto knife or wha-have-you that’s sharp. Can be printed on with transparent gloss inks to give different colors yet retain reflectivity. Use the hi-preformance film. You may need to use vinyl ink for flexibility.
Or you could skip printing by just cutting your run-of-the-mill silhouette of flying socialist donkey over the moon. And the chin-up Oman with a Roosevelt silver spoon… {snort snort} Ought to stick to those signs (aluminum substrate betcha) just as good as the propaganda does.
A 100 foot roll will cost you about $150. Could be fun. Use cutouts and disguises, and latex gloves.
“ARRA”, “arra”
Where have I heard that before?
Isn’t that little speech disfluency Ted kennedy’s version of “Huh”, “ohh” or “ahh”,…Etc.?
ex… “I did not,.. arra,..drown that woman.”
The Constitution does not grant rights but protect rights. Another missed class in Civics by Obamists?
The absolute height of government audacity. They are not only going to spend us into oblivion, they are going to proudly stick it in our faces by advertising with large, expensive signs.
I have seen these in Taxachusetts & southern NH. We Massholes are pretty numb to this sort of non-sense. My suspicion is that the signs will have a slight negative effect.