{"id":1269,"date":"2009-11-18T10:22:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2009-11-18T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:22:39","slug":"its-a-question-of-competence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/economy\/its-a-question-of-competence\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a question of competence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama White House has failed multiple instances of basic core competence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1204\">When the AP pointed out that their &#8220;jobs created or saved&#8221; metric was utter fiction, a White House Spokesman accused them of &#8220;calculator abuse.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1214\">the embarrassing list of items that were being funded by the Porkulus program<\/a>, which included:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day.<br \/>\n&#8211; $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to build a backup runway.<br \/>\n&#8211; $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women.<br \/>\n&#8211; $2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, according the the recovery.gov website, built at the cost of millions of tax payers dollars, $6.4 billion of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/polyticks\/democrats.html\">democrat<\/a> porkulus bill has been <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/17\/6-4-billion-in-porkulus-money-spent-in-phantom-districts\/\">spent in congressional districts that don&#8217;t exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedanashow.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/16\/stimulus-spent-over-617k-in-non-existent-missouri-district\/\">In the non-existent 14th congressional district alone<\/a>, the Obama administration claims to have spent $617,848 in order to &#8220;<em>create or save<\/em>&#8221; five jobs.  That is $123,569.60 per job, in a part of America that doesn&#8217;t even exist.<\/p>\n<p>You can bet that this buck won&#8217;t stop at our Dear Leader&#8217;s desk.  Nope, he&#8217;s going to pass this steaming pile of incompetence on to his good buddy, Joey Biden.  Yup,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/news\/washington-whispers\/2009\/02\/23\/biden-to-oversee-your-stimulus-dollars.html\"> the man a heartbeat away from the Oval Office was in charge of implementing the Porkulus program<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/p-j-gladnick\/2009\/03\/01\/limbaugh-speech-fact-check-joe-bidens-stimulus-package-cluelessness\">he has managed to screw that pooch royally<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama White House has failed multiple instances of basic core competence. 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