Wasn’t Porkulus supposed to “stimulate” the economy by creating jobs? Senators Schumer and Gillibrand promised that $120,000 in stimulus funds for Onondaga Lake clean up would bring jobs to the area. Instead, we’re getting a new pamphlet. That’s right, a pamphlet telling us about Onondaga Lake clean up. I can’t make this stuff up, folks.
It turns out none of it was true — except for the amount of taxpayer money involved.
The $120,000 will not rebuild infrastructure. It will not build anything. It won’t even clean up a single drop of the polluted lake.
The money — included in the $4.6 billion in federal stimulus funds headed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — will pay to print a pamphlet about the lake cleanup, Army Corps officials say. Even then, the “State of the Lake” report won’t be completely new, according to Lynn Greer, the Onondaga Lake outreach coordinator for the Buffalo District of the Army Corps of Engineers.
The federal money will pay to update and reprint a 16-page color pamphlet from 2001, which updated the original version published in 1992.
When asked about the announcement by New York’s two U.S. senators referring to a job-creating infrastructure project, Greer said, “That’s not completely accurate.”
This isn’t exactly what one would consider a “shovel ready” job, unless what one is shovelling is BS.
