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.