when you look at the kinds of projects politicians seem to like they seem to be the ones that will benefit all the usual suspects - high priced lawyers, consultants, mega project corporations. Green projects are not seen as benefiting the economy, at least not by the old crowd.
Turtle
Date: Wednesday, 01. July 2009
It won't help boost share prices, complained CNBC business TV anchor Maria Bartiromo about stimulus money to divert turtles under a highway rather than across it.
Bartiromo was talking to Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, who heaped scorn on a $3.4 million Florida Department of Transportation project for an underground wildlife road crossing for turtles and other wildlife in Lake Jackson, Fla., along U.S. 27.
The project was on Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn's list of 100 most wasteful stimulus money programs. However, Josh Boan, the Florida Transportation Department's natural resources manager, points out that a large number of turtles and other wildlife are killed in the area. The project doesn't just protect wild life, Boan said, it also addresses a safety issue due to vehicles swerving around turtles or turtles becoming "flying objects" when hit.
CNN's Anchor host Campbell Brown also ran a critical piece on the project which described it as wasteful and not helpful to boosting the economy.
Looks like safety and the environment are not business friendly.
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Greenjack,
BRK,
Coburn is a dinosaur. Most of the projects he mentions are just the kind of thing money SHOULD be spent on. The crossign for turtles is green jobs and creates wealth for otu children. That's even better than producign more autos
