Stimulus breakdown by city

[sadaist]

Guess my city's not getting shit. Not even on the list.

No worries Ford. The "twin" cities I live in now didn't make it...Murrieta & Temecula, CA (About 45 minutes N of San Diego, & 60 minutes SE of Los Angeles). Murrieta population around 75,000, not sure about Temecula but it's larger than that. Tons of wineries too. Either they didn't request money for two reasons..they didn't feel the need or they fucked up & didn't get a request in in time. Or maybe the list is incomplete.

[jhale667]

Yeah, didn't see my hometown on there, either...

[Big Train]

Every post in this thread is another reason to say fuck this bill, start over.

This reads more like a "funding dream list" than the best bang for the buck for ALL americans.

Most of these, as pointed out above, might sustain existing jobs, but they aren't really long term solutions to anything. We aren't really (outside of green energy) talking about rapidly funding new INDUSTRIES, with long term jobs, we are talking about fixing the place up to make a few extra bucks. Don't get me wrong, the place certainly does need fixing up, but that should be after we have a paycheck to go to the Home Depot with.

[Big Train]

Jhale, aren't you happy though that they will finally be fixing up those shithole apts? The illegal immigrants who they will hire with no social, sending the money back home, that will really perk up the local economy.

Obama...change (and dollars) you can believe in...


Angeles CA CDBG Maya Townhomes 730,000 52
Los Angeles CA CDBG My Townhomes 918,000 52
Los Angeles CA CDBG Mediterranean Apts. 719,000 56
Los Angeles CA CDBG PH&D Apts. 1,336,000 85
Los Angeles CA CDBG Swansea Senior 1,539,000 112
Los Angeles CA CDBG Hollywood Bungalow Courts 390,000 1

[GAR]

I went to the San Diego page. One gross waste of money I see is $3.5 million for the "Rose Creek Bike Path". This is a very small bike path along a portion of Mission Bay. It's not great but is still very usable..

and.. EDIBLE!

You may not know this, but that area of the Mission Bay Bike Path runs between a high-dollar condo development of over one dozen units total near the golf course and is paved in Yellowtail Sushi rolls.

Of course it is going to be costly, but I'm hungry now not 20 years from now when there's nothing left to eat.

[GAR]

Jhale, aren't you happy though that they will finally be fixing up those shithole apts? The illegal immigrants who they will hire with no social, sending the money back home, that will really perk up the local economy.

Obama...change (and dollars) you can believe in...


Angeles CA CDBG Maya Townhomes 730,000 52
Los Angeles CA CDBG My Townhomes 918,000 52
Los Angeles CA CDBG Mediterranean Apts. 719,000 56
Los Angeles CA CDBG PH&D Apts. 1,336,000 85
Los Angeles CA CDBG Swansea Senior 1,539,000 112
Los Angeles CA CDBG Hollywood Bungalow Courts 390,000 1

I can just see all the sandpiles for all the stucco work being interrupted by the 6 month vacations the beaners take from September to March sitting curbside, while the construction trailers sit idle collecting parking citations, graffiti and the homeless who sleep underneath all down Glenoaks and San Fernando Road.