Stimulus Bill Money Spent on $3.4 Million Tunnel for Florida Turtles
From Death by 1000 Paper Cuts
Remember when the Obama administration claimed that the Stimulus Bill needed to be passed with utmost speed and that the bill would bring critical jobs that would help rebuild or improve our crumbling infrastructure? The Washington Examiner published an article highlighting the “questionable” projects funded by the Stimulus bill, which, in the end, will be paid for by tax payers for years, or even, decades to come.
Here’s just a few of the projects that have, or will receive stimulus money, courtesy of the Washington Examiner:
- $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway.
- $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid.
- $3.4 million for a 13-foot tunnel for turtles and other wildlife attempting to cross U.S. 27 in Lake Jackson, Fla.
- $1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.
- $1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.
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