Green Jobs meet red tape as Obama debuts world’s most expensive caulk job

Green Jobs meet red tape as Obama debuts world’s most expensive caulk job

Just one year later and 90,000 jobs short, the green continues to flow out of DC as Team Obama tries to stimulate our economy. This time the well intentioned but ill-conceived Weatherization Program has not sealed homes with anything more than red tape. As well, the scant few homes that have been made more weather resistant have cost over $57,000 per job. One would think for that kind of cash the Feds could have built entire homes around the existing ones to provide the ultimate in protection. But alas the White House says the program is right on target. After all, they can dance with numbers like it’s a musical routine on Sesame Street. They claim that the amount of homes completed in 2009 was not intended to be the total but the correct portion for that year as an amount over the 4 years of the program. HUH? Even that bastion of liberal thought, ABC News, relayed that number as being 1.5% of the amount promised.
On closer inspection there seems to have been a number of procedural ‘mis-steps’ made by Reid and Pelosi. It appears they overlooked a little thing like the Davis-Bacon rule for equitable pay for federal projects. This took not only the whole year to sort out but is causing the project to be way over budget which must of course be why it’s so expensive to shore up these homes…the workers are getting rich! (I’d love to hear from them about the fat cash they’re making.)
What went wrong you ask? Well it seems the Bill was thrown hastily and haphazardly together like a drunken late night shopping spree. If you’ve ever had a few too many and meandered in to the grocery store you know what I mean. You end up spending a lot of money and have nothing to show for it. You wake up without eggs and bread and get stuck eating Little Debbie’s and Bagel Bites for breakfast. It has to make you wonder…if something as simple as weather stripping a few hundred thousand window sills is such a monumental task are these the people we want taking care of our medical needs? Keep your caulk away from me Barack.

Green Jobs meet red tape as Obama debuts world’s most expensive caulk job

Just one year later and 90,000 jobs short, the green continues to flow out of DC as Team Obama tries to stimulate our economy. This time the well intentioned but ill-conceived Weatherization Program has not sealed homes with anything more than red tape. As well, the scant few homes that have been made more weather resistant have cost over $57,000 per job. One would think for that kind of cash the Feds could have built entire homes around the existing ones to provide the ultimate in protection. But alas the White House says the program is right on target. After all, they can dance with numbers like it’s a musical routine on Sesame Street. They claim that the amount of homes completed in 2009 was not intended to be the total but the correct portion for that year as an amount over the 4 years of the program. HUH? Even that bastion of liberal thought, ABC News, relayed that number as being 1.5% of the amount promised.
On closer inspection there seems to have been a number of procedural ‘mis-steps’ made by Reid and Pelosi. It appears they overlooked a little thing like the Davis-Bacon rule for equitable pay for federal projects. This took not only the whole year to sort out but is causing the project to be way over budget which must of course be why it’s so expensive to shore up these homes…the workers are getting rich! (I’d love to hear from them about the fat cash they’re making.)
What went wrong you ask? Well it seems the Bill was thrown hastily and haphazardly together like a drunken late night shopping spree. If you’ve ever had a few too many and meandered in to the grocery store you know what I mean. You end up spending a lot of money and have nothing to show for it. You wake up without eggs and bread and get stuck eating Little Debbie’s and Bagel Bites for breakfast. It has to make you wonder…if something as simple as weather stripping a few hundred thousand window sills is such a monumental task are these the people we want taking care of our medical needs? Keep your caulk away from me Barack.

Greenies $ee Green…but not the bright light of common sense!

As the latest info from the front in the war against the Chicken Little Enviro crowd comes in, the cacophony of laughter from the irony is rolling across the country. It not only appears that Global Warming is a farce (at the very least man-made GW) but that the do-gooders who strapped themselves into the dork mobile known as the Prius were ‘risking’ their lives at an…ahem…greater pace than from the 50 year threat of rising tides and warming winds. Apparently the Green crowd is suing Toyota for some big green because their 100hp Prii are accelerating wildly out of control resulting in soft tissue damage. First and foremost, the words Prius and acceleration should never be in the same sentence. Even if Whole Foods was having a mega sale on Patchouli and Birkenstocks I don’t think a Prius could make the trip with any more speed than a fat kid on a big wheel going uphill on an icy street. Next, I think much of the ‘soft tissue’ damage already existed between the ears of the Hybrid crowd. Last but not least, while they can’t seem to abandon the failed notion that all of the data they’ve been fed about the warming doom has been a scam, they are quick to ditch the car and it’s maker that gave them the chance to be a part of something bigger. Let’s just hope they put the class in ‘class action’ and carpool to the lawsuit rather than fly.

Finally real stimulus for the economy…Lobbyist money!

The figures are in for the money spent on lobbying last year and while it’s a mere five percent increase that equates to $170 million dollars on the total 3.7 billion spent overall. It might not seem like much if you are bandying those numbers around like Dr. Evil holding the world for ransom, but when you consider where that money goes it is staggering. All of that money of course goes to a good cause eventually, a top notch chef, the waiter who served the meal, the trucker who delivered the supplies to the restaurant, etc., so obviously it doesn’t make any sense to cut this off. Regardless, there’s finally an industry in America that is growing! The Healthcare bill and maybe even the so-called “Stimulus Package” may have actually saved or created some jobs!
If you are one of the many that thinks lobbying means standing in the foyer of an elected official waiting to change his mind about upcoming legislation, you would be wrong. Lobbying has become the process of pedaling influence in the form of thinly veiled bribes. Be it through skyboxes for sporting events, access to the Big Pharma jet, or a never-ending supply of top shelf martinis, lobbying to sway opinion has turned in to a game of ‘Pimp my Congressman’. The average American who still has a job is glad for that, even if it came with a cut in pay, yet our elected officials are never without a yearly cost of living increase while spending more time ‘at recess’ than a poorly run day care center. And although I can cry crocodile tears at the hundred thousand dollar pittances Senators make, it is all the ‘perks’ from the lobbies that make living the DC ‘Cribs’ lifestyle so attractive.
I point this out not to rail against lobbyists or the process of lobbying in general. I’m merely trying to draw attention to the extravagant lives our Pols live, and to remind you that money, one way or another, comes out of our pockets. And for an administration that is bent on doing away with the culture of corruption and influence, they sure have no problem bellying up to the open bar. As well we certainly can’t ever get rid of the lobbying process, how would Washington ever know which way to cast their vote? The government just needs to quit making bad guys out of lobbyists when their glasses and tummies are full.

Al Gore should come shovel my driveway!

I look outside and it’s snowing again so let me start this with a bit of honesty. I don’t believe in global warming. I especially don’t believe that it is man-made. For millennia temps have risen and fallen. At one point the earth was covered in ice. We know this because we have films of it. Ray Romano roamed the earth with a Sabertooth tiger looking for colder climates and John Leguizamo annoyed us as much a million years ago as he does today. Seriously, we have evidence that ice was everywhere and somehow melted long before factories, cars, and the fluorescent bulb existed. Glaciers have shifted like an over-sized guy in a middle seat on a 4 hour flight since the dawn of time. The ice in Alaska has broken off for generations and the native people have a term for the sound it makes that roughly translates to ‘white thunder’. They didn’t just create that line so an Eskimo could get his SAG card during ‘Inconvenient Truth’.
As a kid I remember the cover of Time magazine warning of the coming ice age if we didn’t act now. One of the main things we needed to do was reduce emissions and cut back on using our dwindling fossil fuels. Sound familiar? Ah but that wasn’t scary enough to forward the environmentalist agenda was it? We weren’t impressed so they changed it to global warming and talked about coming floods, fires, starvation, locusts, dogs and cats living together!
Now more and more evidence is coming out that we have been duped! While Big Al is flying around the globe telling us to conserve fuel he’s raking in the dough on his faux ”cash for carbon credits” program. Before I go on to carbon credits let’s not forget to cover the hypocrisy of flying around a private jet to warn of a carbon-caused doomsday. That’s like Magic Johnson holding an orgy for AIDS awareness. Just recently, hundreds of private jets and thousands of limos converged on Copenhagen to decide the policies that could save us all. Step one, travel less. Duh! Aside from chaos and confusion, do you know what fell on their meetings…snow! More snow in fact than had been seen in that area in quite some time.
I’m rambling a bit but the reality of what we’re being fed is about as meaningful as the relationships on the Bachelor. The recent email scandal that showed collusion and cover-up, the sensors that were lost and data created until they were found and proven incorrect, and now the finding the melting of the glaciers was hacked from some Indian kid’s book report should be enough to knock off all the hype for a while! We have to chill the warming hysteria as the countless lies given to us could easily destroy our economy and the economies of developing nations. And for what, to stroke the misguided guilt of the Birkenstock crowd?
Yes we need to cut emissions for the sake of a cleaner world in which to live. Yes we need to recycle for a number of reasons and of course we need to keep our waterways clean for countless reasons too. But until we can prove without a doubt that the Earth is warming and it is being done by man we need to be careful about how drastic our reactions are. And one last thing, if Al Gore can’t stop lying to the world and at least living his talk, he needs to come up to Minnesota and shovel my driveway. The snow in my yard is deeper than the BS he’s been feeding us the last 10 years.

Al Gore should come shovel my driveway!

I look outside and it’s snowing again so let me start this with a bit of honesty. I don’t believe in global warming. I especially don’t believe that it is man-made. For millennia temps have risen and fallen. At one point the earth was covered in ice. We know this because we have films of it. Ray Romano roamed the earth with a Sabertooth tiger looking for colder climates and John Leguizamo annoyed us as much a million years ago as he does today. Seriously, we have evidence that ice was everywhere and somehow melted long before factories, cars, and the fluorescent bulb existed. Glaciers have shifted like an over-sized guy in a middle seat on a 4 hour flight since the dawn of time. The ice in Alaska has broken off for generations and the native people have a term for the sound it makes that roughly translates to ‘white thunder’. They didn’t just create that line so an Eskimo could get his SAG card during ‘Inconvenient Truth’.
As a kid I remember the cover of Time magazine warning of the coming ice age if we didn’t act now. One of the main things we needed to do was reduce emissions and cut back on using our dwindling fossil fuels. Sound familiar? Ah but that wasn’t scary enough to forward the environmentalist agenda was it? We weren’t impressed so they changed it to global warming and talked about coming floods, fires, starvation, locusts, dogs and cats living together!
Now more and more evidence is coming out that we have been duped! While Big Al is flying around the globe telling us to conserve fuel he’s raking in the dough on his faux ”cash for carbon credits” program. Before I go on to carbon credits let’s not forget to cover the hypocrisy of flying around a private jet to warn of a carbon-caused doomsday. That’s like Magic Johnson holding an orgy for AIDS awareness. Just recently, hundreds of private jets and thousands of limos converged on Copenhagen to decide the policies that could save us all. Step one, travel less. Duh! Aside from chaos and confusion, do you know what fell on their meetings…snow! More snow in fact than had been seen in that area in quite some time.
I’m rambling a bit but the reality of what we’re being fed is about as meaningful as the relationships on the Bachelor. The recent email scandal that showed collusion and cover-up, the sensors that were lost and data created until they were found and proven incorrect, and now the finding the melting of the glaciers was hacked from some Indian kid’s book report should be enough to knock off all the hype for a while! We have to chill the warming hysteria as the countless lies given to us could easily destroy our economy and the economies of developing nations. And for what, to stroke the misguided guilt of the Birkenstock crowd?
Yes we need to cut emissions for the sake of a cleaner world in which to live. Yes we need to recycle for a number of reasons and of course we need to keep our waterways clean for countless reasons too. But until we can prove without a doubt that the Earth is warming and it is being done by man we need to be careful about how drastic our reactions are. And one last thing, if Al Gore can’t stop lying to the world and at least living his talk, he needs to come up to Minnesota and shovel my driveway. The snow in my yard is deeper than the BS he’s been feeding us the last 10 years.