The Star recently reports on the latest laughable stimulus scheme:
Officials will apply federal stimulus dollars to the existing task of mowing and cleaning about 900 blighted lots forfeited for failure to pay taxes. Fourteen of those parcels will be converted to gardens to grow vegetables and other crops useful in a tough economy.I have no idea how the rats coming up from the sewers to eat federally grown corn on the Eastside is going to help people who live in that community . . . It gets worse . . .
"The Full Employment Council will use about $700,000 in federal stimulus money to employ up to 300 people between the ages of 16 and 24. They will assist Shawn’s Lawn & Landscaping, which on Tuesday received a $240,000 contract from the Parks and Recreation Department to mow and clean about 120 acres of vacant lots owned by the Land Trust of Jackson County.Not only does this fat contract turn a bunch of people into government field hands but it doesn't really accomplish much once the money runs out like, oh let's say job training.
The lots are primarily within the 3rd and 5th City Council Districts on the city’s east and southeast sides. Two lots in each of seven neighborhoods within those districts will be designated to be tilled and prepared to become community gardens."
I know that people were hoping for change and whatever but if community garden silliness is all that Kansas City has to show for the sheep-like Obama worship in this town . . . Then a great many of us might have been horribly deceived.
Right Tony, we should just send people checks to live in their mom's basement rather than hire people to clean up blighted areas.
ReplyDeleteThe stimulous is the increased purchasing power that comes from hiring people to do WORK, and not community gardens.
WORK ... google it you bum.
Wow T. the dem dolts hate you too.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Obama bullshit to me.
ReplyDeleteTony if you don't like Obama you are a racist.
ReplyDeleteIf this is what they mean by "green jobs" we are in deep trouble.
ReplyDeleteThe only green is in the contracts.
ReplyDeletethat first dumbass managed to misspell stimulus.
ReplyDeleteI have a lawn business. I would have bid on it for $240K.
ReplyDeleteI'm probably the wrong color.
Who owns this landscaping business who got this contract?
ReplyDeletestimulous sounds sexy.
ReplyDelete"Tony is a bum" said that all that is important is that there is a paycheck. Wait. Obama said he had plans for "targeted" spending that would stimulate the economy. I knew that was crap back then, why didn't you?
ReplyDeleteThese grass cutting jobs were going to be there without the federal spending. All this does is help KC to balance its budget. You say that this helps because it helps the city with it's budget? Either the city gets the money from it's citizens or the feds do. Either way we pay for it. Unfortunately, this way it passes through more hands so there is higher cost.
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