A tip of the hat to the Town of Union (near Endicott, NY) for returning Obama stimulus money they didn’t want nor ask for, to the tune of $561,302. And a big “boo” to Broome County Social Services for sticking their grubby hands out to grab it before it went somewhere else–continuing the waste and fraud that is the Obama administration.

According to the article, Broome County accepts homeless grant rejected by Union, Town officials were surprised to receive the grant which was to be used to address the issue of “homelessness.” So smart those Obama people–blaziningly brilliant, the whole lot of them. Sending more than a half million dollars for homelessness to a place where there isn’t any.

Union officials tried several different ways to spend the money–one of them being to help the elderly replace their furnaces (need to be more green, dontchya know). But the Obamadrones said “no” every time Union officials proposed something–they flat out rejected it. So Union finally said “no thanks” and sent the money back. But then the Broome County Department of Social Services stuck their collective hands out–Social Services being the department with the largest piece of the Broome County budget, gobbling up 32% of all the money spent by Broome County each year (some $114 million proposed for 2010).

Social Services said, “Thanks, we’ll take that money off your hands Obamaclones, and we’ll pay peoples’ rent checks and utility bills with it.” You see, you can’t use Obamabucks to make mortgage payments of taxpaying homeowners who find themselves in trouble. No way. But you can pay rent for renters. How screwed up is that? It makes perfect sense when you factor that renters are more often Democrat (39%) than Republican (20%)*. The Democrats are simply buying votes, creating a depenendcy class who will keep them in power in perpetuity–it’s sickening and maddening.

So the Obamaclones are giving that half mil to Broome County Social Services and now everyone will live happily ever after. Until next year when Social Services wants that money again, and deadbeats who won’t pay their bills want it again, etc.

But you can only mortgage your kids’ and grandkids’ future once. What a shame and a waste and a FRAUD the entire “stimulus” package was. The bigger shame is that it won’t dawn on most people what they’ve done to their progeny until it’s too late. Hey, how’s that hope and change working for all you Obamaclones?

*Renter political party affiliation numbers are from a study by the University of Virginia and Dr. Larry Sabato.

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