You’ve probably seen this by now. Mysterious poster found in LA. Author unknown.

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U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, MD, today released an oversight report — “100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion” — that discloses 100 of the worst examples of waste in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or stimulus bill.
Here are 10 examples in the report:
1. $1.5 million in “free” stimulus money for a new wastewater treatment plant results in higher utility costs for residents of Perkins, Oklahoma.
2. $1 billion for FutureGen in Mattoon, Illinois, is the “biggest earmark of all time” for a power plant that may never work.
3. $15 million for “shovel-ready” repairs to little-used bridges in rural Wisconsin are given priority over widely used bridges that are structurally deficient.
4. $800,000 for little-used John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the “Airport for Nobody” has already received tens of millions in taxpayer dollars.
5. $3.4 million for a wildlife “eco-passage” in Florida to take animals safely under a busy roadway.
6. Nevada nonprofit gets $2 million weatherization contract after recently being fired for same type of work.
7. $1.15 million for installation of a new guard rail for the non-existent Optima Lake in Oklahoma.
8. Nearly $10 million to renovate an abandoned train station that hasn’t been used in 30 years.
9. 10,000 dead people get stimulus checks, but the Social Security Administration blames a tough deadline.
10. Town of Union, New York, encouraged to spend a $578,000 grant it did not request for a homelessness problem it claims it does not have.

Had lunch at school today with my first-grade son. It’s one of those, “Oh, dad, please come to school for lunch with me!” How sweet, right? And by the way, could you bring me nuggets and fries from McDonald’s when you come? Yeah, sweet.

So we’re having lunch in the cafeteria — nuggets and fries — and we’re sitting at the “visitors’ table.” At his school, when a parent comes for lunch, you sit at a table slightly taller than the munchkin tables the kids use. Thanks! And, as an added bonus and opportunity for your child to score elementary school street cred, your child gets to invite another child to join you both at the bigger table, up front, where all can see and sufficiently envy.

So we’re having lunch already, talking about important first-grade stuff with my son and his TWO friends at the visitors’ table (yes, my son the rule-bender socialite). After some small talk that I don’t remember, friend number one comments that his mom might come to lunch with him one day this week, and then he, too, could have nuggets and fries. Maybe even a Coke. Cool. Friend number two adds that it’s difficult for his mom to have lunch with him since she’s a teacher at the same school in another grade, and her class has lunch in a different time slot. Schedules simply won’t permit a lunchtime rendezvous. Ah, that’s a shame, I say. All three nod in agreement.

Then — and here’s the money — for me, pretty much out of the clear blue, he continues, “And you know, you don’t want to be around my mom when she’s had too much to drink!”

Hello! What? Yeah, he just said that! This cherub-faced little first-grader just ratted out his own mom right there in the cafeteria! Holy cow!

And before I can summon a proper grownup reply, he rolls on, “She can get pret–ty … you know,” again nodding, and now smiling broadly. Whoa! Dude, where’s my video camera?!

Now I’m looking at the other two — my son and friend number one — and neither seems phased whatsoever! Maybe they didn’t hear what he said, but from the looks on their faces it was more like, “Hmm, yeah, parents. Please.”

By now, I’ve managed to muster some semblance of a responsible, respect-your-parents response, and said, “Hey buddy, maybe that’s information you should talk about at home with just your family.” Like, OK fellow parent, I’m trying my best to have your back here.

But then he replies, “Yeah,” as if in agreement, but continues with, “so don’t come over to MY house at night!”

Wow! If this was a movie, the bell would ring right now, and the camera would cut to the mom’s classroom where she would be cheerfully teaching something wholesome! Thankfully, there were only a few awkward minutes left for lunchtime, because what on earth do you say after all that? Besides, I totally could not wait to get out of there and call my wife!

I love my kids! And they’d better never do that to me.

• President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
• President Bush began a string of expensive finan cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
• President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade.
• President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern ment health care fund.
• President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. President Obama would double it.
• President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in creased this spending by 20 percent.
• President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.

We the People … of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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When — in the history of the United States of America — has the President of these United States *FIRED* a private citizen who works for a private business? *WHEN?*
NEVER is the correct answer!
What on earth is happening to our country?
What HAS ALREADY happened to our country?
God help us.

Somebody in Washington please step up and be a real man (or real woman)! Regardless of party, stand up for what’s right! Be a patriot! Be a hero! STOP President Obama’s budget! STOP IT! Do whatever it takes to STOP IT! We the people cannot afford it. Nor can our children or grandchildren or great grandchildren — which is exactly who will be paying for it. We the people did not — knowingly or intelligently — vote in favor of a socialist takeover of our economy. So STOP IT! NOW! STOP THIS BUDGET!

Grab your pitchforks, people! Figuratively speaking, of course. Rather, grab your laptops, your iPhones, your Blackberries and contact your senators and representatives and tell them to STOP THIS INSANE BUDGET!

It won’t work. We don’t have the money. Did I say it won’t work? Duh! WTF? People, look at your own personal checkbooks and tell me, is it possible to SPEND your way out of debt? The answer is not just “no,” but HELL NO! Again, I say, WTF?!

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