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More gaffes and lies from this administration. re: Stimulus $ that wasn't.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:44 AM

AURAPTOR

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Obama had facts wrong about visit here
Finance director: Stimulus dollars didn’t aid project

By Mark Niquette
Friday, August 20, 2010

A local project that President Barack Obama cited during a visit Wednesday to Columbus as an example of how the federal stimulus package has worked isn’t actually being funded with stimulus dollars.

The president spoke at the North Side home of architect Joe Weithman, and both Obama’s comments and information from the White House touted Weithman’s work on a project that the president said was being at least partially funded by the $787 billion stimulus bill passed last year.

"What we’ve been trying to do is to build infrastructure that puts people back to work but also improves the quality of life in communities like Columbus," Obama said in his remarks. "So Joe is an architect, and he’s now working on a new police station that was funded in part with Recovery Act funds."

But although federal money is being used for the project in question, there are no stimulus dollars involved, said Columbus Finance Director Paul Rakosky, a Democrat.

Rakosky said the project is not a police station but rather the renovation of an abandoned warehouse that the city purchased on the South Side in 2007 to house the city’s police crime lab and property room.

Weithman’s firm, Mull & Weithman Architects, is handling the $300,000 in design work for the crime lab as part of the project, and the $300,000 is coming from a congressional earmark, Rakosky said.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:56 AM

KANEMAN


I have a sneaking suspicion that the Government has no idea where and who has much of that money. They are so inefficient it would not surprise me if 25% of the stimulus has vanished into thin-air.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:59 AM

AURAPTOR

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Quote:

Originally posted by kaneman:
I have a sneaking suspicion that the Government has no idea where and who has much of that money. They are so inefficient it would not surprise me if 25% of the stimulus has vanished into thin-air.



All the more reason for MORE stimulus $$, to do the work the 1st stimulus $$ was suppose to do, but didn't.....






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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:10 AM

AURAPTOR

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You Obamabots are being completely snowed, and you don't even care.

Sad.






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