Vice President Joe Biden, who is never at a loss of words, recently spoke about the $768 billion Biden was in Overland Park, Kansas yesterday to pound his chest about that fiscal millstone, but he should have checked his mail for a note from Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) before arriving in the Sunflower State, as the Wichita Eagle informs us:
In a letter to the vice president on the eve of his trip to Overland Park, Roberts wrote, "There is a serious situation occurring 140 miles further south on U.S. 69 in Cherokee County, Ks., that is an absolute abuse of taxpayer money and needs your urgent attention."
It has to do with the Kansas Department of Transportation's plans to use $760,000 in stimulus funds to resurface a small section of old state highway 96 in the state's southeastern corner. It's a five-mile section of road between the Missouri state line and the town of Crestline.
The problem, Roberts said, is that the work might have to be done all over again next year.
That's because another nearby stimulus-funded project, costing up to $25 million, could damage the repair work on 96.
Isn't that great!?! President Obama probably views his boondoggle bill as a perpetual motion machine.
This story calls for a Margaret Thatcher quote, "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Because that is going to happen unless we have a midcourse correction.
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