Michelle Malkin’s Turkey of the Year: So-Called Stimulus Wasted Taxpayer Money
By Michelle Malkin
After gathering around the Thanksgiving table, bowing our heads in prayer and feasting on the holiday bird, it’s only fitting to take a moment to fete the unforgettable turkey of 2009.
The stimulus.
In February, I wrote that if the trillion-dollar stimulus plan were a Thanksgiving dinner entree, it would be a Turbaconducken — the heart attack-inducing dish of roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs of bacon. And so it has come to pass. After the Democratic majority larded up the massive spending package with earmarks and bribes, President Barack Obama declared it pork-free and has stubbornly touted its job-creation benefits for out-of-work Americans.
Reality check? The Washington Examiner reports that more than 10 percent of the jobs the Obama administration claimed were “created or saved” by the stimulus are doubtful or imaginary. ABC News uncovered countless examples of bogus congressional districts listed as stimulus beneficiaries by the Obama stimulus-tracking Web site, Recovery.gov. The money has been lavished on shady beauty schools in New Hampshire, prison inmates in Texas and wind companies in Spain and China. Just last week, a California audit found that the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overstated the number of jobs saved by federal stimulus dollars by upward of 13,000.
While this Generational Theft Act continues to soak up our tax dollars and add to our children’s and grandchildren’s debt, the Democratic majority is in the government kitchen cooking up a second stimulus turkey to provide federal infrastructure money to public-sector unions.
Gobble, gobble.
