CNS News: “The jobs created and saved by the economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed on Feb. 17, 2009 cost at a minimum an average of $228,055 each, according to data released yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).”
Arizona Republic: “When the Glendale City Council gave the green light to a $197 million Phoenix Coyotes deal in December, it seemed the team’s future in the Valley was secured. More than a month later, Glendale has not yet completed the deal. Meanwhile, the Goldwater Institute is weighing whether to sue, scrutinizing the hockey agreement to see if it unconstitutionally relies on taxpayer funds to subsidize private enterprise.”
CNS News: “In the 1,461 days that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) served as speaker of the House, the national debt increased by a total of $5.343 trillion ($5,343,452,800,321.37) or $3.66 billion per day ($3.657,394,113.84), according to official debt numbers published by the U.S. Treasury.”
City Journal: “If money could melt snow, Mayor Bloomberg would be basking in victory over the storm. When he took office in 2002, Gotham spent $1.3 billion annually on the Department of Sanitation. Today, the city spends more than $2.2 billion on “New York’s Strongest. . . . Taxpayers now spend $144,000 on salary and benefits for each sanitation worker, up from $79,000 nearly a decade ago. Nine years ago, taxpayers contributed about $10.5 million annually to support sanitation pensions; this year, they’ll cost $240 million—a more than twentyfold increase”
Detroit Free Press: “Detroit Public Schools will spend $49 million in federal money to push technology in the district, including distributing 40,000 new laptop computers to students in grades 6-12 for use in class, as well as more than 5,000 new desktop computers.” Meanwhile “DPS to lay off 88 school bus attendants who help special needs kids.”
See “Detroit porkulus dump: $49 million for laptops” and “DPS says teacher tried to pawn laptop.” Michelle Malkin says:
“These technology infusions have turned out to be gesture-driven boondoggles and political payoffs that squander precious educational resources — and with little, if any, measurable academic benefits.”