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Despite Obama’s promises, pet projects still coddled
Boston.com ^ | Aug. 27, 2009 | Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo

Posted on 08/29/2009 12:04:53 PM PDT by canuck_conservative

A sleepy Montana checkpoint along the Canadian border that sees about three travelers a day will get $15 million under President Obama’s economic stimulus plan. A government priority list ranked the project as marginal, but two powerful Democratic senators persuaded the administration to make it happen. Discuss COMMENTS (83)

Despite Obama’s promises that the stimulus plan would be transparent and free of politics, the government is handing out $720 million for border upgrades under a process that is both secretive and susceptible to political influence. This allowed low-priority projects such as the checkpoint in Whitetail, Mont., to skip ahead of more pressing concerns, according to documents revealed to the Associated Press.

It wasn’t supposed to be that way. In 2004, Congress ordered Homeland Security to create a list, updated annually, of the most important ....

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhostimulus; border; bordersecurity; homeland; security; stimulus

1 posted on 08/29/2009 12:04:54 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

OK follow the money, who’s this little job getting contracted out to?


2 posted on 08/29/2009 12:07:32 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You mean “If it’s getting contracted out”? I like to ask who’s getting the kick backs?


3 posted on 08/29/2009 12:17:18 PM PDT by RC2
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To: RC2

Surely there must be a Rat version of Halliburton....


4 posted on 08/29/2009 12:20:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Surely there must be a Rat version of Halliburton....

GE.

5 posted on 08/29/2009 2:16:47 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: canuck_conservative

bump


6 posted on 08/29/2009 2:50:56 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: canuck_conservative; All

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7 posted on 08/30/2009 10:09:21 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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