So if you're not green, you're not on the the Democrat's list for the Stimulus Bill cash.
If you're not shovel ready, you're definitely not on the list.
If your management consists mainly of white males, you're probably never going to be in the running.
If your company sends your customer service operations overseas and you're not Google or some big outfit like them, you can kiss any chance of receiving guvment moolah goodbye.
If you own a small business and live in California you will realize nothing in the way of a surplus because the unique taxation that the state throws on its business people will eat away at profits and their ability to maintain.
In other words, nothing is new here, except the political correctness of this revolution.
We'll see how many jobs are actually created in the long run, say in two years.
Thanks for the read.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Obama's transparency: Stimuluswatch.org
Before you join the other 71% who are looking to queue up for the mark of the beast--President Obama is an righteous communicator after all--take a look at Stimuluswatch.org.
Prepare to be amazed at the sheer volume of the Stimulus Package the Congress is about to implement. Moreover, this site is so humongo, one must endure a tutorial to take advantage of its capabilities. Critically speaking, the site navigates well and is straight forward enough for the layman, although I only spent about an hour there. It seems to have other attributes which is suggested in a more intensive tutorial than the basics introductory one, in which I participated. It will become a key management and process tool.
Dial in the city/state and voila, up pop projects (updated every ten-minutes) within that Democrat stimulus bill that they couldn't wait to pass because they had vacations to take and slopes to ski.
That ten million dollars put aside for the Santa Cruz, CA tannery shack that will provide 20 jobs? For ten million dollars? That's in there too. That's about $1/2 million per job. For a guy to skin a cow and then hang the hide up to dry? Wow. That's expensive for just killing a cow. I guess you'd have to feed the cow...
People like you and I also get to vote on the project's "importance" or priority. The word they use is "critical." That's part of the updating function. I doubt that can be legit, though. Who's to keep a labor union from having their people vote early and often? How can you track something like that?
I wasn't surprised to locate the infamous zillion dollar bullet train from LA to Vegas, while Detroit stays in the 20th century with a pittance of help--a measly $2 billion. Californians voted that idea down, by referendum last November. However, someone must have "reasoned," probably those lobbyists for the service unions, that zillions of people travel to Vegas from LA. That same Someone had better call Steve Wynn and remind him to build still another empty hotel next year for no one to stay in.
No doubt we'll pay for that too somehow. People like Steve Wynn always seem to get breaks from the government.
Of course, while going through this elaborate website one expects to find the earmarked ACORN bucks (I've read there are four billion of them) we've heard so much about during the Obama campaign hidden somewhere. I found them in a category called CDBG (Community Development Block Grants). That's Organizer Speak for over-the-top tax dollars for what they do best: develop blocks of voters by communities, usually in the form of labor unions which usually turn on the thing they claim to love the most--democracy--and they do so in the most tiresome third world, po' me style. These folks have the worst opinion of true democracy, something I've never quite understood. Why do they leave their countries of origin only to reinstate their old political styles? They also vote early and often, in absentia, posthumously.
Obviously, there are many good projects, but hold your sides as you peruse the Table of Contents. Another interesting experiment is to locate your town and determine how "heads up" your local politicians are in the money grab. My little town is so out of touch that there isn't one request; however, the up and coming little town nine miles south and recently named one of the top ten places to live in the US by a respected mag had ten projects on the books!
Now, don't get me wrong. More power to Barack Obama if he can accomplish even half of what he promises. After all, President Obama could sell a ham sandwich at a bar mitzvahs, but even he has will have to talk awfully pretty when the Pelosi/Reid pork starts smelling up the place.
Thanks for the read.
Prepare to be amazed at the sheer volume of the Stimulus Package the Congress is about to implement. Moreover, this site is so humongo, one must endure a tutorial to take advantage of its capabilities. Critically speaking, the site navigates well and is straight forward enough for the layman, although I only spent about an hour there. It seems to have other attributes which is suggested in a more intensive tutorial than the basics introductory one, in which I participated. It will become a key management and process tool.
Dial in the city/state and voila, up pop projects (updated every ten-minutes) within that Democrat stimulus bill that they couldn't wait to pass because they had vacations to take and slopes to ski.
That ten million dollars put aside for the Santa Cruz, CA tannery shack that will provide 20 jobs? For ten million dollars? That's in there too. That's about $1/2 million per job. For a guy to skin a cow and then hang the hide up to dry? Wow. That's expensive for just killing a cow. I guess you'd have to feed the cow...
People like you and I also get to vote on the project's "importance" or priority. The word they use is "critical." That's part of the updating function. I doubt that can be legit, though. Who's to keep a labor union from having their people vote early and often? How can you track something like that?
I wasn't surprised to locate the infamous zillion dollar bullet train from LA to Vegas, while Detroit stays in the 20th century with a pittance of help--a measly $2 billion. Californians voted that idea down, by referendum last November. However, someone must have "reasoned," probably those lobbyists for the service unions, that zillions of people travel to Vegas from LA. That same Someone had better call Steve Wynn and remind him to build still another empty hotel next year for no one to stay in.
No doubt we'll pay for that too somehow. People like Steve Wynn always seem to get breaks from the government.
Of course, while going through this elaborate website one expects to find the earmarked ACORN bucks (I've read there are four billion of them) we've heard so much about during the Obama campaign hidden somewhere. I found them in a category called CDBG (Community Development Block Grants). That's Organizer Speak for over-the-top tax dollars for what they do best: develop blocks of voters by communities, usually in the form of labor unions which usually turn on the thing they claim to love the most--democracy--and they do so in the most tiresome third world, po' me style. These folks have the worst opinion of true democracy, something I've never quite understood. Why do they leave their countries of origin only to reinstate their old political styles? They also vote early and often, in absentia, posthumously.
Obviously, there are many good projects, but hold your sides as you peruse the Table of Contents. Another interesting experiment is to locate your town and determine how "heads up" your local politicians are in the money grab. My little town is so out of touch that there isn't one request; however, the up and coming little town nine miles south and recently named one of the top ten places to live in the US by a respected mag had ten projects on the books!
Now, don't get me wrong. More power to Barack Obama if he can accomplish even half of what he promises. After all, President Obama could sell a ham sandwich at a bar mitzvahs, but even he has will have to talk awfully pretty when the Pelosi/Reid pork starts smelling up the place.
Thanks for the read.
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