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I Saw It With My Own Eyes..............Stimulus Money

Mike

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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?
 

Liveoak

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That case sounds like nothing more than politicians saying they did something worthwhile when they really don't. And there will always be someone out there, who is very able to take care of themselves, to take the free money. I would bet one of those suits was taking a few pictures to make their "weatherization program" look good!

Can't blame the owner of the mobile home. He's just playing the system...........and winning!

Need some free money? Plug into the National Institute of Health. The President just gave them $5 billion. Unemployment is sky high and he gives THEM $5 billion. To do what? Treat depression?
 

katrina

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Mike said:
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?


mike, why didn't you go over and kindly express your views to the suits?
 

Mike

Well-known member
katrina said:
Mike said:
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?


mike, why didn't you go over and kindly express your views to the suits?

John Henry is a good neighbor and I didn't want to get in the middle of it.

Besides, it might not have worked out to be kindly towards them. :wink:
 

katrina

Well-known member
Mike said:
katrina said:
Mike said:
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?


mike, why didn't you go over and kindly express your views to the suits?

John Henry is a good neighbor and I didn't want to get in the middle of it.

Besides, it might not have worked out to be kindly towards them. :wink:
Never know till ya try.... And you might of felt better... :wink:
 

backhoeboogie

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katrina said:
Never know till ya try.... And you might of felt better... :wink:

Its not a "pick your fights well issue at all." A slim chance of reaching that "felt better" part is not worth a prison sentence or winding up 6 feet under. In the end, Obama is going to "spread the wealth" any way. Nothing to be gained at all.

Its better the money went where it did than to go to the fat cats who never do anything or to Pelosi's California vacuum.
 

katrina

Well-known member
backhoeboogie said:
katrina said:
Never know till ya try.... And you might of felt better... :wink:

Its not a "pick your fights well issue at all." A slim chance of reaching that "felt better" part is not worth a prison sentence or winding up 6 feet under. In the end, Obama is going to "spread the wealth" any way. Nothing to be gained at all.

Its better the money went where it did than to go to the fat cats who never do anything or to Pelosi's California vacuum.

Hello!!!! Just go over and very politely express your views, then go home..Maybe they think it's a head scratcher too... Just a friendly chat....Leave the vigilante attitude at home... You just might learn something.... :roll:
 
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MO STOCKER said:
OK, you got me...... What's a " Repreation" ?????

Please excuse my lack of perfection in spelling.

Reparations for slavery is a proposal by some in the United States that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people, in consideration of the coerced and uncompensated labor they performed over several centuries, which has been a powerful and influential factor in the development of the country


OBAMAS main agenda.
 

backhoeboogie

Well-known member
katrina said:
backhoeboogie said:
katrina said:
Never know till ya try.... And you might of felt better... :wink:

Its not a "pick your fights well issue at all." A slim chance of reaching that "felt better" part is not worth a prison sentence or winding up 6 feet under. In the end, Obama is going to "spread the wealth" any way. Nothing to be gained at all.

Its better the money went where it did than to go to the fat cats who never do anything or to Pelosi's California vacuum.

Hello!!!! Just go over and very politely express your views, then go home..Maybe they think it's a head scratcher too... Just a friendly chat....Leave the vigilante attitude at home... You just might learn something.... :roll:

Nothing changes. It is spilt milk at this point. Talk about the weather if you go over there for something next week.
 
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