Posted by Tina
Obama might as well be organizing fancy schmancy trips from New Hampshire to Lake Tahoe for pension fund ladies at the Live Better Senior Center. I mean what else would five bus drivers be doing at five hundred thousand dollars a head? Well, truthfully, I could think of a few other things but wouldn’t print them…see what you think:
“$500k per job: Obama buys NH buses” – New Hampshire Union Ledger
The U.S. Department of Transportation announced on Friday that it is sending $2 million in stimulus money to the state DOT to buy four buses. The buses will be owned by the state. Boston Express will use one pair, and C&J Trailways will use the other — all for free. C&J co-owns Boston Express with Concord Coach. ** “These funds are creating jobs now while investing in the future of our transit systems,” Administrator Peter Rogoff of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) said in Friday’s news release. “The public’s demand for transit service continues to grow, and these dollars will help meet that need.” ** But the FTA’s Rogoff said these buses are needed to keep up with rising demand for commuter bus service. Even if they aren’t creating jobs, aren’t they necessary to shuttle all the new people switching from cars to buses? ** No. The opposite is true. The economy has slowed demand for Boston commuter service, Jalbert said. Instead of increasing the need for new buses, it’s made him put off purchasing them. In addition, he said he wouldn’t have needed stimulus money to buy Boston Express’s two buses. He would have received other federal subsidies for those buses, as he has in the past.
It isn’t stimulus money folks it’s redistribution of wealth…yours…and mine. It isn’t about creating a strong economy that would benefit all Americans; it’s about benefiting a select few. It’s another stupid organizer stunt.