"Signs" of Waste?

[MacUser]

Signs of the Stimulus?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-st ... d=11163180

As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting "The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and reminding passers-by that the program is "Putting America Back to Work."

... number that caught the eye of ABC News: $10,000. That's how much money the Washington Airports Authority tells ABC News it spent to make and install the sign – a single sign $10,000 – announcing that the project is "Funded by The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" and is "Putting America Back to Work." The money for the sign was taken out of the budget for the runway improvement project.


At the center of the controversy are a series of guidelines provided to stimulus recipients. In the letter, Rep. Issa cites what he calls "perhaps the most overly political guidance on stimulus advertising" involving the Department of Housing and Urban Development and a stimulus recipient. According to investigators from the oversight committee, HUD provided the Office of Native American Programs with information on "signage requirements." The document suggested a sign template informing the public the projects had been, "Funded By: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Barack Obama, President."

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I'm all for helping the sign industry.. but this type of political signage designed at the heart to be politically self promoting is wasteful especially when it's borrowed grandchildren money that we even now don't have to spend.

Beam me up Scotty.

[Full Quiver]

"It's only $5 Million"

come on Macuser, you got that in your front pocket