Sounds more and more like a script for a new Godfather movie.

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This is the effect,though not necessarily the cause.

If you figure that the worst economic cesspools out there are all the democrat dominated urban areas that overwhelmingly voted for Obama, it ought not be a surprise.

It is the chicken or the egg question: Are they getting money because they voted for Obama or are they getting money because they are economic cesspools (created by years of democrat governance) that have always gotten money? We’d need to drill down a layer to two and look at the history to tell for sure. Not that Obama & Rahm wouldn’t do this at the drop of a hat, but this legislation came out of the House with minimal WH input. It was written by the same Bozos that have been doing this for decades.

If the choice is between same old, same old or new stuff, I vote for business as usual. Cheers

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This facility was an essential part of our weapons program. Nuclear tech ain’t cheap in the begining or the end.

I’ve work on the several goverment projects and know first hand how wasteful it is, especially the military. But I’ve seen just as much waste in the private sector. It’s the nature of large organizations doing large projects.

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@Fit fit:

I wouldn’t call that wasteful spending even though it is spending on waste

If you were even remotely familiar with the project itself and how the money is being spent at SRS you would call it wasteful.

I have several friends who work there and they have shared with me first hand knowledge of how our money is being poured into holes in the ground…..literally.

Massive subterranean structures, some as deep as fifteen stories below ground, are being filled with concrete.

Massive buildings are being dismantled piece by piece, cut into small pieces and are being removed by either truck or train.

The concrete foundations of the buildings are then broken up into small pieces, and then trucked away as well.

Once all traces of the structures are carefully removed, the site is then graded and covered with high dollar sod like you would install in your own front yard.

All in the interest of “reducing the footprint”.

And that just scratches the surface of this boondoggle.

The contractors on that project are required to spend what averages out to be $1.5M PER DAY in order to satisfy the various deadlines in the funding structure.

If anyone believes that a gov’t project can efficiently and wisely spend $1.5M PER DAY without massive waste and fraud, they are a fool.

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More:

Aiken county (McCain 61%) is receiving the largest share of ARRA dollars in SC. $387,600,000 for one massive DOE project at the Savannah River Facility. I wouldn’t call that wasteful spending even though it is spending on waste

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And Pelosi’s stinking swamp mouse is getting $16 mil. WTF is wrong with these people?

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I sure hope the New Black Pather Party got a taste!

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@ML: Yes ML. We all know that liberal urban governments waste vastly more sums of taxpayer money than do more conservative rural governing entities. And they get much less for it. Take schools for example. Urban areas where spending per pupil are high have much lower student performance than most rural areas where spending is lower and the teachers unions aren’t so dominant.

Thanks for pointing out once again that much of the money going to these larger, “needier” urban centers is more likely wasted.

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Mike’s America

Larger population areas need more money. Rural areas need less. However to assume that large population areas vote for Democrats because they get more money and [therefore] smaller areas vote for Republicans because they get less is odd at best. Cities tend to have more liberal progressive views while rural areas tend to have more conservative roots [as it were].
Urban centers have a lot more funding needs. It’s as simple as that. However the tit you mention is not welfare or giving poor people money – it is services like highways, firefighters, infrastructural needs and schools.
Oh and don’t forget farmers get a chunk of change from the government – which I know in theory you oppose.

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18 million for that website? Well I reckon someone is recovering keenly!

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