http://www.stopthepork.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:21:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Dan Eggen Washington Post A group of Democratic senators called Wednesday for the government to halt a federal stimulus program aimed at building wind farms and other clean-energy projects, arguing that too much of the money spent so far has gone to create jobs overseas. The Obama administration and wind-energy advocates ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/03/democrats-acknowledge-that-stimulus-money-is-creating-%e2%80%9cgreen-jobs%e2%80%9d-overseas/ By Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post SAVANNAH, GA. -- To hear President Obama tell it, his plans for reshaping the nation's economy are aimed at helping people like Ray Gaster, whose small chain of lumber yards here has been walloped by the Great Recession. Gaster's business has plummeted by more than two-thirds since ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/03/savannah-ga-yet-to-feel-effects-of-obamas-stimulus-plan/ By Jay Ambrose Syndicated Columnist President Barack Obama's claim that his disastrous joke of a stimulus bill helped stave off a second Great Depression reminds you of another joke, the one about the guy dancing wildly on a street corner with the purpose, he says, of scaring away elephants. But, someone points out, ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/columnist-obamas-stimulus-pr-fraught-with-malarkey/ By Matt Kelley USA TODAY WASHINGTON — More than $3.5 billion in economic stimulus funds are going to programs that President Obama wants to eliminate or trim in his new budget. The president's budget released this month recommends getting rid of Army Corps of Engineers' drinking-water projects, which got $200 million in stimulus ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/happy-anniversary-stimulus-funds-going-to-slashed-programs/ If you are hoping to visit the newest crown jewel in America's park system chosen by Congress, throw away the car keys and open up your wallet. The 2,900 pristine acres of beachfront property were not cheap -- or even in the United States. The property soliciting accusations of "pork" from ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/tracking-your-taxes-park-pork/ Remember all those jobs supposedly saved or created by the Democrats’ $862 billion stimulus package? While they’re hard to find, most of those that can be identified were public sector jobs – directly reliant on stimulus funds – and it looks like they didn’t get saved for long. “Federal stimulus money ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/so-long-stimulus-jobs/ WASHINGTON – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) are asking President Obama to force Congress to cut wasteful Washington spending and pledging bipartisan support for this critical effort. In a letter to the President, the GOP leaders ask him to invoke his authority under the ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/house-republican-leaders-ask-president-obama-to-force-congress-to-cut-wasteful-spending/ ATLANTA - Nearly 200 DeKalb County school (Ga.) employees will be boarding flights to Los Angeles this week to attend an education conference that will cost taxpayers nearly $400,000. The money isn’t coming from local tax dollars but from federal dollars that came to the county as part of the Obama ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/georgia-county-school-employees-using-stimulus-money-for-trip-to-california/ By Patrice Hill Washington Times The United States is drawing closer to the kind of debt crisis plaguing some European countries, where a financial emergency forces political leaders to make draconian spending cuts and tax increases to maintain the confidence of international investors. Moody's, a top Wall Street credit agency, brought the U.S. ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/deficit-imperils-u-s-s-top-credit-rating/ By JONATHAN WEISMAN WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will propose on Monday a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that projects the deficit will shoot up to a record $1.6 trillion this year, but would push the red ink down to about $700 billion, or 4% of the gross domestic product, by 2013, ... http://www.stopthepork.com/2010/02/under-obama%e2%80%99s-stewardship-the-deficit-jumps-150-billion-in-one-year/