Cash For Caulkers

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington...herization.html

[Magox]

Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many thousands of homes all snuggy and warm and energy-efficient these very snowy days?

 

Well, a new report due out this morning will show the $5-billion program is so riddled with drafts that so far it's weatherized only about 9,000 homes.

 

Based on the initial Obama-Biden program promise that it would create 87,000 new jobs its first year, that would be about 10 jobs for each home weatherized so far. Makes for pretty crowded doorways.

 

ABC News reports that the General Accountability Office will declare today that the Energy Department has fallen woefully behind -- about 98.5% behind -- the 593,000 homes it initially predicted would be weatherized in the Recovery Act's very first, very chilly year.

 

The Energy Department is run by Steven Chu, like President Obama a Nobel Prize winner. You'll never guess what the federal government blames for the lack of significant progress.

 

RED tape.

Nooooo, you don't say?

[IDBillzFan]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington...herization.html

In a special news conference called today to celebrate the one-year-and-one-day anniversary of the stimulus bill, Joe Biden announced that the weatherizing part of the bill was never meant to create any jobs until the second phase was started.

[keepthefaith]

In a special news conference called today to celebrate the one-year-and-one-day anniversary of the stimulus bill, Joe Biden announced that the weatherizing part of the bill was never meant to create any jobs until the second phase was started.

 

You shouldn't beat up on Biden. The poor guy is in a position where he has to defend the actions of the White House, which is a very tough job.

[John Adams]

This is the part of the stimulus I've been looking forward to. I have been wanting to do a bunch of energy-related work on my house but have been holding out pending the incentives they've been teasing for a year. It's kind of pissing me off.

[/dev/null]

In a special news conference called today to celebrate the one-year-and-one-day anniversary of the stimulus bill, Joe Biden announced that the weatherizing part of the bill was never meant to create any jobs until the second phase was started.

 

Phase I: Weatherize

Phase II:

Phase III: Jobs!

[IDBillzFan]

Phase I: Weatherize

Phase II:

Phase III: Jobs!

First you get the caulk, then you get the rebate, then you get the women.

[DC Tom]

First you get the caulk, then you get the rebate, then you get the women.

 

You can’t handle the caulk! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be weatherproofed by men with caulk guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, /dev/null? Congress has a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for the stimulus package, and you curse Biden. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That the stimulus package, while tragic, probably saved jobs. And Obama's administration, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves jobs. You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want caulk on that wall, you need caulk on that wall!

[Nanker]

Bwahahahahaha!

 

 

Love the new avatar too.