So if we’re of like minds, we probably thought that the stimulus package was for companies that needed help to stay afloat. To save the American economy as we know it.
Sounded good.
Of course some companies then sent their upper management on luxury vacations on our money and what not… OK, whatever, it’s your image. But that put us into an uproar.
But I’m confused where some of the money actually went! Somehow, I’m not seeing these items as economy stimulating purposes:
- $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. (Never know when a rabbit is going to Hulk out!)
- $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies. (Didn’t know over paid athletes qualified! Man up! Make do with what you have guys!)
- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway. (Dudes, run fast. Real fast!! WTH, since when did Microsoft need $$?)
- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women. (I don’t see the problem here! Snark!)
- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri (If a tree falls in the forest… oh never mind!)
- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid. (Who were we saving here?)
Here are my two favorites:
- $300 apiece for thousands of signs at road construction sites across the country announcing that the projects are funded by stimulus money.
- $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.
I’m starting to wonder if I could have signed up for some cash! Sheesh.
There’s a longer list at my reference: Washington Examiner
