$1 Billion in Stimulus Spending

Here's a list at the link.

And somehow, none of it goes to any current budget shortfalls. It's like a billion dollars just materialized out of nowhere (Washington) and now a billion dollars worth of make-work projects have to be created to spend it.

Of particular interest?

• Under Byrne Justice Assistance Grants ($20 million):
• $7.7 million for "Purchase vehicles"
  
• $3.2 million for "in car cameras"
• $9.1 million of "Project Safe City"

The big spenders seem to be mass transit (where no one can safely ride), schools (where no one learns) and public housing (where no one works or contributes in any meaningful way to society).