Last week the Stimulus "Weatherization" project came to work on a mobile home on an adjoining property to mine.
The owner is an older man who inherited the property, also what was rumored a substancial amount of cash, and bought a used 20 year old mobile home for $3500 about 10 years ago and moved in. He works at a Country Club in town and is a dressing room attendant who works for tips only. Cash. And has always seemed to make a good living......Driving new Lincolns......etc.
Anyway, the gov't "Weatherization" project showed up at 7:00 A.M. one morning last week with about 40 workers, 4 -20 foot trailer loads of materials, and lots of suits.....at least 10-12 people standing around talking and supervising with no visible work efforts.) The crew stayed all day insulating the attic space, replacing windows, insulating beneath the house, and adding ventilation on the roof. John Henry, the owner, told me they that one of the "suits" told him that if the same work and materials had been contracted by a private firm, the cost would have been around $11,000.00. A best estimate.
My question is that........ was this a wise choice of taxpayer money to sink this much money into a cheap mobile home to begin with? Why should my tax money go towards work on someone else's home who could have afforded it in the first place? How many $BILLION$ are gonna be spent like this for some temporary jobs?
The owner is an older man who inherited the property, also what was rumored a substancial amount of cash, and bought a used 20 year old mobile home for $3500 about 10 years ago and moved in. He works at a Country Club in town and is a dressing room attendant who works for tips only. Cash. And has always seemed to make a good living......Driving new Lincolns......etc.
Anyway, the gov't "Weatherization" project showed up at 7:00 A.M. one morning last week with about 40 workers, 4 -20 foot trailer loads of materials, and lots of suits.....at least 10-12 people standing around talking and supervising with no visible work efforts.) The crew stayed all day insulating the attic space, replacing windows, insulating beneath the house, and adding ventilation on the roof. John Henry, the owner, told me they that one of the "suits" told him that if the same work and materials had been contracted by a private firm, the cost would have been around $11,000.00. A best estimate.
My question is that........ was this a wise choice of taxpayer money to sink this much money into a cheap mobile home to begin with? Why should my tax money go towards work on someone else's home who could have afforded it in the first place? How many $BILLION$ are gonna be spent like this for some temporary jobs?