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More Stimulus Waste - This Time, A Checkpoint For No One
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:29 PM
by Mattie Duppler The AP reported today that a Montana town is receiving $15 million in “stimulus” money to fund a checkpoint on the Canadian border. The checkpoint services, on average, three people a day. Hard to believe there weren’t more pressing projects to which the government could funnel our tax dollars.
But apparently, there were. Pork projects are getting handed out like candy under the $720 million available for Homeland Security spending in the “stimulus” bill, relegating proposals with high priority to the back of the line to receive funding. The Montana checkpoint project was ranked as a “marginal” priority, but thanks to the state’s senators, was rewarded a hefty chunk of cash while other projects, such as a checkpoint in Laredo, Texas that 55,000 travelers and 4,200 trucks use each day was not awarded “stimulus” money. With all this spending putting the country in the whole to the tune of $9 trillion, you’d think prioritizing might be a prudent characteristic for the government to adopt.
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