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2010-02-19 Economy

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Posted by tipper 2010-02-19 07:44|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The problem? The bill contained, among other flaws, a mandate that everybody hired to do work on the homes be paid a "prevailing wage"

Let me get this straight. Theres a government program that has a provision to pay off the unions and it ends up soaking the taxpayers? Im shockedshocked I tells ya!

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-02-19 09:03|| 2010-02-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Nah - everyone knows that its because Americans are Racist!

-- Media

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-19 09:09|| 2010-02-19 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The anger builds

This is the UNDERSTATEMENT of the year!!

Posted by armyguy 2010-02-19 09:12|| 2010-02-19 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 That $5 billion created lots of jobs. Nice green office jobs doing studies and writing regulations and such. Once all that was done there was not enough money left over to do but a few thousand homes. Give them another $5 billion and they'll do the weatherization. Or maybe pay the 25,000 bureaucrats for another year. Either way it creates jobs.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-19 09:45|| 2010-02-19 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5 How many of those newly weatherized homes are now worth more than the cost of the government-financed improvement?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-02-19 10:01|| 2010-02-19 10:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I still can't get over the fact that they spent $100M (a hundred million!)on a website to explain how they're wasting my money.

And, they couldn't even get that right...the thing is full of 'glitches' (nonexistant zip codes, anyone?)!!!

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-02-19 12:21|| 2010-02-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 A similar program here in Oz has, so far, resulted in four insulation installers being electrocuted and about a hundred house fires.

Posted by Grunter in Oz 2010-02-19 21:35|| 2010-02-19 21:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Plus some neat scams. One group of Indian students will insulate a house belonging to friends, have it inspected, collect the check, remove the insulation, and move it to the next house.

Posted by Grunter in Oz 2010-02-19 21:40|| 2010-02-19 21:40|| Front Page Top

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