Stimulating Pork

The “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009″, commonly called the “stimulus bill”, is online at Read the Stimulus. It is full of old fashioned pork, festooned with thousands of “worthy projects” that could never get funding before our insistence that we “act now”.

Many Americans support the idea of building infrastructure, lasting, permanent “stuff” that will at least show some return on the dollars spent. But, as conservatives such as Hugh Hewitt have noted, the bill is bursting at the seams with expenditures that won’t create or save a single job (but will reward various special interest groups). Search for “education grants” at Read the Stimulus and see if you can pick out the expenditures that will leave us … the taxpayers … with anything after the money is spent.