{"id":57000,"date":"2014-12-10T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T12:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57000"},"modified":"2014-12-10T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T11:41:06","slug":"at-last-a-shovel-ready-stimulus-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57000","title":{"rendered":"At Last \u2013 A Shovel-Ready Stimulus Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that vaunted \u201ceconomic stimulus\u201d package from several years ago? You know, that one rammed through Congress by the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <del>naive DC clown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/krewe\"><i>krewe<\/i><\/a><\/del>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 current Administration that was going to <i>lassez les bontemps rouler<\/i> again, economy-wise? And which hasn\u2019t exactly worked out all that well?<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 economic stimulus program has been widely derided as ineffective. Many of those \u201cshovel-ready\u201d projects you heard about were anything but. Critics called many of the projects funded by the program \u201cmake work\u201d, &#8220;pork&#8221;, or \u201ccrap\u201d. And it looks like they were dead on target.<\/p>\n<p>However, in spite of the ineffectiveness of the program those stimulus funds apparently are still around (and we wonder why we\u2019ve been having budget deficits approaching or over $1 trillion annually). And today we have a new stimulus-funded project that\u2019s <em>truly<\/em> shovel-ready.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a contract issued by the Bureau of Land Management to haul off horse and burro manure.<\/p>\n<p>The contract has one base year and four option years. It will likely be in effect until 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/12\/09\/shovel-ready-stimulus-funds-still-being-spent-on-manure-project\/\"><i>I\u2019m not joking.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a load of horsesh!t. Literally.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019re the ones paying for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that vaunted \u201ceconomic stimulus\u201d package from several years ago? You know, that one rammed through &hellip; <a title=\"At Last \u2013 A Shovel-Ready Stimulus Project\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57000\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At Last \u2013 A Shovel-Ready Stimulus Project<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,213,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}