Rising Hegemon
Instead of trusting us to make wise decisions with our own money, they passed the largest government spending bill in history - ... $140 million for something called ‘volcano monitoring.’ Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, DC.
Flash-forward more than a year and Bobby Jindal is going to show all those big spending Washington a-holes how a state-based Republican does it. There's a massive oil spill and Bobby says spend $200 million on sand dunes to protect the shoreline, even though most said "that's a bad idea."
Result?
The big set of sand barriers erected by Louisiana's governor to protect the coastline at the height of the Gulf oil spill is being criticized by a presidential commission as a colossal, $200 million waste of money so far.
But Bobby is not deterred:
...despite the commission's scathing report, he plans to move ahead with the project
[This poster admits he is pretending that this is not EXACTLY the same pattern present in yesterday's Afghanistan report]
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
4 comments:
Just another continuation of a Bush-era policy- NEVER admit you are wrong.
Feh.
Pravda-on-the-Hudson also reported the story. Of course, it was buried in the Science section, where few people will actually read it.
Jindal's going ahead with the project because it funnels boat loads of cash to the Shaw Group. They're a local conglomerate that I guess is a big deal down here -- occasionally they barely make it on either the Forbes or Fortune 500 list.
Republiclown stimulus -- give the money to the rich folks.
Stand back, I speak Teapublican....
Matthew 7:24-27 (New International Version, ©2010)
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
Translation into southern Teabaggian: "Sand not good. Sand wash away. Man use sand to stop water are stupid. Word of God say no do."
(bet you didn't see scripture coming - who could have predicted?)
but butbut he BELIEVED in it. that is facts enough.
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