The NY Times is reporting that all of the guys that helped Obama get elected are now looking for paybacks. It appears they will be happy with either earmarks for infrastructure improvement projects (35,000 jobs per $1 BILLION spent), or else they are looking for jobs.
It appears some folks in Westchester County, NY might be looking for handouts since the county commissioners are liberals, are afraid to raise taxes and are also afraid to cut entitlements. Guess who is looking for a bailout?
Personally, all of this money should probably be coming from the local and state governments, not the federal government. Why should people from New Mexico or Idaho be financing a new tunnel from New Jersey to Manhattan?
Obama hasn’t even been sworn in yet and the lists of paybacks are already being mailed in. I have a feeling we haven’t seen anything yet.
Gardie
Tags: Earmark, Fraud, Obama
While I was digging around for additional earmarks, and some examples of the corruption that was brushed off during the campaign, and has now been placed into the White House, I found a little tidbit that didn’t make much news or was dismissed as a ‘distraction’.
It appears that in 2006, Obama requested an earmark of $1million for the University of Chicago Hospital. Guess who worked there? Michelle Obama was the Vice President of Community Affairs for the hospital.
Byron York noted that Michelle Obama made $121,910.00 in 2004 before her husband was elected to the US Senate. In 2005, after he won his election, she made $316,962.00.
My question is this: We have already seen a ‘change’ from Obama, how much more ‘change’ can we afford, especially with him and his cronies in charge of the House, the Senate, and the White House?
Gardie
Tags: Cronyism, Fraud, Obama