Here’s a list of the “shovel ready” boondoggles for which Durham has requested “stimulus” funds. My favorite: $2 million for Neighborhood Public-Private Partnership.
Here’s the full greed list for the whole state. It amounts to $1.976 billion.
Here a separate lists for Asheville, Charlotte, Concord, Fayetteville, Gastonia, Rocky Mount and Winston-Salem.
There are no Raleigh projects listed on this site…yet.
UPDATE: Guess who’s the biggest beneficiary to the so-called stimulus? The government-worker elite:
Indeed, a close look at the current stimulus plan shows that as little as 5% of the money is going toward making the country more productive in the longer run – toward such things as new roads, bridges, improved rail and significant new electrical generation. These are things, like the New Deal’s many construction projects, that could provide a needed boost to our sagging national morale.
Instead, we are focusing once again on those who have been getting the best deal for doing the least. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports state and local government workers get paid 33% more than their private sector counterparts. If you add in the pensions and other benefits, the difference is over 40%. In New York alone, public-sector wages and benefits since 2000 have grown twice as fast as those of the average private-sector worker.
