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President Obama’s “stimulus bill” is riddled with waste and useless projects. That’s the view of U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and John McCain, R-Ariz., based on a new oversight report on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or economic stimulus bill. The Coburn-McCain report “Stimulus Checkup – A closer look at 100 projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” examines how $7 billion in stimulus funds ...
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6 hours ago ago from Infidels Paradise
Does this sound to anyone else? And Obama and the democrats are pushing hard for a second stimulus ??? The Washington Examiner : Report: Democratic districts received nearly twice the amount of stimulus funds as GOP districts By: Mark Hemingway A new analysis of the $157 billion distributed by the American Reinvestment and Recovery act, popularly known as the stimulus bill, shows that the funds were distributed without ...
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