Saturday, July 11, 2009

Skokie's third stimulus "campaign sign"

Last Saturday I wrote that there are five Barack Obama economic stimulus 2012 campaign signs within two miles of my home in Morton Grove, Illinois.

Now there are five--three of them in Skokie.

Like the first one I found, this one is on Skokie Boulevard, near the Old Orchard Shopping Mall.

The campaign signs continue to gain national attention, as Fox News reports:

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that only 10 percent of the Recovery Act funds have been released so far, with about half of the money expected to be spent by October 2010. That dispersed money is being used to prioritize short-term projects and needs over more ambitious goals, the GAO report states.

For example, the GAO said about half the money set aside for road and bridge repairs is being used to repave highways, rather than build new infrastructure. And state officials aren't steering the money toward counties that need jobs the most, auditors found.

Taxpayers have also recently complained that the federal government has wasted money by advertising stimulus-funded construction projects with road signs which costs between $500 and $1,200 to produce.

UPDATE July 19: Thanks goes to Marathon Pundit reader Michael Shalen who first spotted this sign.

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1 comment:

L. E. said...

For the amount of $ spent on the signs, I think they could throw in something better than sandbags to keep the sign from blowing away.