Stimulating talk

There is a saying that "a politician and our money are soon parted". Let's look at some provisions of the stimulus plan, and see how those fools waste our tax dollars.
$866,000. to figure out how to control flies in a stable. Haven't they ever heard of tails? Animals have been swatting flies off their asses successfully for centuries.
$951,500 for streetlights in Detroit. Thanks to all the boarded up, foreclosed homes the drug addicts need lights to see where they can score crack at night.
$476,000 for a museum to teach children how to fly. How about a museum to teach pilots how to fly instead? Two Northwest pilots flew 1+1/2 hours past the airport before realizing it.
$465 million for a F-136 jet engine. C.B.S. news claimed "it was not necessary and not affordable". How could an engine not be necessary for a jet? Because it already had one that worked!
$95 million dollars to research wood. I thought they figured that out years ago. No new products were developed. I guess they can use all the excess wood to make ventriloquist dummies. Hey George trim those damn fingernails!


Statistics provided by Citizens Against Government Waste http://www.cagw.org/

The perfect storm



 Hurricane Irene is barreling up the East Coast with winds up to 100 m.p.h, and heading directly toward my apartment in Lower Manhattan*. In spite of the possible loss of life and billions of dollars in damages there are some who look on every disaster as "an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before"**. I guess by that they mean surfing 20 foot waves in the Hudson River, snorkeling the ruins of Wall Street, and catching striped bass from my 11th floor balcony. Some intelligentsia will see this as opportunity for stimulus spending. Maybe I can get in on that "cash for lunkers program***.

She looked taller in the photos.

*http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hurricane_irene_carolina_path_toward_993RrKolrBSXAaTBOMi4YL
**Quote from Rahm Emanuel.
***A lunker is a large fish. This program does not exist, but it should.