$54 mil of stimulus Money went to a Private Railroad, way to go POTUS!

[srellim234]

You beat me to it on national service. No conscientious objectors. They can do charity work like emptying bedpans, paperwork and the like.

Conservatives should support another proposal but I'm sure it is something that will stir up a real hornets' nest of objection. NO inheritance from generation to generation allowed. When you start your national service you start from scratch. No need for an inheritance tax or "death tax" or whatever you want to call it. Instill a work ethic in your kids because the way they are going to get ahead is through their own hard work, not yours.

This would prevent a return to the Medieval feudal system and the lazy aristocrats that went with it. It would also level the playing field that all people start on. Too many conservatives want to dictate their philosophy to others but aren't willing to give up the advantage they inherited and prove their philosophy themselves.

[audtatious]

You are correct that I don't agree (though I do intend to have my last dollar spent on my funeral). Then again, the majority of Dems who are ruling the country would not agree either as that is exactly how they got their money as well. What "service" would do for those of "rich" families is show them what manual/menial labor is all about and what not holding up your end will do to your assigned group. A little humility can go a long way.

[smockers83]

Not the current "conservatives" who align themselves with the Republican Party. They are only interested in creating power for themselves and becoming dictators to all others. They don't give a d*mn about the country. Only about themselves and their power.

They tote the party line, read from scripts and aren't capable of independent thought. They follow along like sheep, just like the Democrats follow along like sheep on the other side.

This is why I said outside of D.C.

[srellim234]

They're all over the country, though. On the airwaves in non-elected positions, in state and local government, and many sitting at home like my father following Limbaugh and FoxNews like a zombie.

[smockers83]

But are all conservatives Republicans?

[audtatious]

Obama's federal government can weatherize your home for only $57,362 eachFebruary 18, 2010 | 2:26 am

Who could forget the $5 billion in Obama administration stimulus money that was going to rapidly create nearly 90,000 green jobs across the country in these tough economic times and make so many thousands of homes all snuggy and warm and energy-efficient these very snowy days?

Well, a new report due out this morning will show the $5-billion program is so riddled with drafts that so far it's weatherized only about 9,000 homes.

Based on the initial Obama-Biden program promise that it would create 87,000 new jobs its first year, that would be about 10 jobs for each home weatherized so far. Makes for pretty crowded doorways.

ABC News reports that the General Accountability Office will declare today that the Energy Department has fallen woefully behind -- about 98.5% behind -- the 593,000 homes it initially predicted would be weatherized in the Recovery Act's very first, very chilly year.

The Energy Department is run by Steven Chu, like President Obama a Nobel Prize winner. You'll never guess what the federal government blames for the lack of significant progress.

RED tape.

Not duct tape. Not weatherstripping. But that infamous RED tape. In the form of, well, forms.

It seems that the Pelosi-Reid stimulus plan that was so quickly cobbled together and was supposed to immediately pump so much money into the sagging economy last year included an 80-year-old legal provision requiring all federally funded projects to pay a prevailing wage to workers.

But what's a prevailing wage for weatherization, you ask?

Who knows?

So the Energy Department asked the Labor Department, which set out to calculate what a prevailing weatherization wage is in every single one of the more than 3,000 counties across these United States.

There were some other things to figure out. It seems the law also requires some kind of National Trust for Historic Preservation review for most homes before any contracts could be estimated to be negotiated to be signed to be let to be begun. And states like Michigan have two people assigned to such tasks.

So, good luck speeding up that work.The Energy folks did tell ABC they've so far spent 522-million Recovery Act dollars on the program. So, let's see, about 9,100 homes divided into that chunk of stimulation change to believe in is -- gee! -- about $57,362 worth of very expensive weatherstripping for each home fixed up so far.

Seems believable for a federal program.

-- Andrew Malcolmhttp://latimesblogs.latimes.co....html

Looks like it did create a couple of Gov't jobs though so I can't all be bad.

[srellim234]

But are all conservatives Republicans?

Of course not. You have zombies following the other side (Olbermann, MSNBC, etc.) too. And likewise they are all over the country, not just is Washington, D.C.