Update
"Anonymous" suggested I link a similar story regarding military spending waste.
Will do: President Barack Obama, winner of the Nobel peace prize, authorized 112 cruise missile launches against 20 coastal Libyan targets earlier this spring (March, 2011). Each cruise missile costs, conservatively, $600,000 (total --> $67 million. One night of fireworks. This does not include personnel costs or the pro-rated operating costs of the launch systems. Fighting over/in Libya continues. I believe this is number four of six wars we are currently waging in the Mideast. Depends on what one counts as a war, and in what order, I guess. I have lost track.
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$20 million federal grant for weatherization of city homes.
Three homes weatherized.
Fourteen (14) jobs.
"The jobs haven't surfaced yet," said Michael Woo, director of Got Green, a Seattle community organizing group focused on the environment and social justice.Well, duh.
The only downside: most of the jobs were administrative.
Link here.
Stop here.
I can't make this stuff up. Remember, this was a grant. $1.5 million/job.
And folks get upset with depletion allowances and/or the US Navy spending $600 on toilets.
By the way, Seattle is about as temperate a climate one can find in the continental U.S. It would have been nice to weatherize homes in North Dakota. But not many votes in North Dakota, I guess.
