Later this week Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), the taxpayers best friend in Congress, will present a report about government waste created by Barack Obama's As the Los Angeles Times reports, Coburn didn't have to look far from his home for one incident of waste.
It is a six-mile stretch of guardrail near a manufactured lake in a desolate patch of the Oklahoma Panhandle. There's little reason for anyone to visit. Weeds are overgrown; the lake bed is virtually dry.Yet repairing the guardrail is on a list of projects developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to tap into President Obama's $787-billion economic stimulus program.
The price tag: more than $1.1 million.
As Obama moves to accelerate the flow of federal stimulus funds, public officials are voicing concerns that some of the projects being devised are of dubious merit.
The picture on the left, which I took in 2007, is from the vicinity of that "lake," and is representative of the panhandle landscape.
Oklahoma public officials, particularly those from the bone-dry panhandle, are stunned that this project attracted stimulus money.
There's some farming in the panhandle, but only because of irrigation (Did I mention that the area is dry?) courtesy of the Ogalla aquifer.
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