Michelle Malkin has posted a list of several of the projects that GOP Sen. Tom Coburn reports are receiving stimulus money for no good reason. She also links to Coburn’s whole report, which is here, and it includes an interesting look at the projects by region (pg. 18+). Those signs that I wrote about yesterday? They run us $300 a pop, and only notify the people in the car that Obama is taking care of us. Of course, the essential US sign industry is booming right now because of it.
Here was one of my favorites:
38. Yale and the University of Connecticut are receiving $850,000 in stimulus for research “to
study how paying attention improves performance of difficult tasks.” Yale, which had the
second-largest endowment in the country in 2007 ($22.5 billion), is getting funding for research
on a project to study how paying attention improves performance of difficult tasks.
Actually, it seems like it may be a useful study, because if anyone in the government other than Tom Coburn was paying attention to this stimulus money, they might be able to perform the difficult task of governing this nation.
UPDATE: I just saw that Coburn’s list has been bouncing around on The Corner as well, and this post includes a picture of the non-existent Optima Lake in Oklahoma that is receiving $1.15 million for a guard rail. When I write non-existent, I really mean it. Follow the link for a great photo.
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