{"id":2033,"date":"2009-07-14T18:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T22:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2009-07-14T18:40:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T22:40:53","slug":"wheres-that-stimulus-money-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s That Stimulus Money Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving through West Virginia and Kentucky last weekend and saw a number of signs advertising that some particular road improvement project was being funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recovery.gov\/?q=content\/act\">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act<\/a> otherwise known as the &#8220;stimulus plan&#8221; or by its more derisive name Porkulus.<\/p>\n<p>About half the projects I saw on the road appeared to have already been completed. The other half were in various states of progress.<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t help wonder about the money spent on the signs. <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.chicagotribune.com\/2009\/jul\/05\/travel\/chi-ap-mi-stimulus-roadsign\">Turns out I&#8217;m not the only one<\/a>. Frankly, I can&#8217;t see why the money was spent on the signs. But then again, this is the federal government and, as usual, nothing they do makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the better thing to have done was to forgo buying the signs and spend more money fixing the roads.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just saying&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving through West Virginia and Kentucky last weekend and saw a number of signs advertising that some particular road improvement project was being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act otherwise known as the &#8220;stimulus plan&#8221; or by its more derisive name Porkulus. About half the projects I saw on the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18,26,12],"tags":[1039,279],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-government","category-politics","category-tom","tag-government","tag-stimulus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}