Our Federal Government has dumped $7.5 million in Federal Stimulus money on the new Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Here we have bridges falling to pieces and they're dumping money into a new Boardwalk. Yeah, Obama has all the right answers, PLEASE!
The Mayor looked like a Bafoon this morning on the news.(FOX).
ReplyDeleteWatch and see who gets those jobs.
ReplyDeleteIsn't the program economic stimulus? To encourage a return on the money? Rehoboth asked for the grant money to do just that. Safer, more attractive boardwalk brings more business, more business means business growth, new business start-ups, more jobs, more employees and more profits, more employee taxes and more business taxes.
ReplyDeleteSalisbury should be so lucky.
Bridges come under other (mainly federal transportation and state highway)funding, which will be provided in one of the next Treasury Department printing sessions.
They probably bitched about needing a new boardwalk more tahn we bitched about having bridges fall apart.
ReplyDeleteIt's that simple.
anonymous 5:15 said...
ReplyDelete"Safer, more attractive boardwalk brings more business, more business means business growth, new business start-ups, more jobs, more employees and more profits, more employee taxes and more business taxes."
What a load of BS! You remind me of Jim Rapp. Let me assure you of one thing. If it was YOUR money, I can assure you that you would not put it up for such, just like Rehoboth Beach didn't. Every taxpayer in the Unites States is paying for that damn thing and you know what, it does NOT do any of the things you mentioned above.
STUB YOUR TOE and sue the Town, it's a lot cheaper! When the Town can afford it, replace it. If they can't afford it, raise the taxes until they can afford it. That's my money too and I say, B S! This is exactly why I absolutely cannot support this President.
Joe,
ReplyDeleteGet a grip! Look. 4.2 million or whatever tourists have to dodge around a boardwalk renovation project and spend umpteen zillion dollars here. Jobs are generated. Then, 3 carloads of tourists fall through a bridge somewhere, and it's just a tragedy that in essence only removed 9 tourists from the picture, there are 9 more job openings, and their FAMILIES paid for the funerals!!!!! HOW GOOD DOES IT GET????
Sometimes I think your priorities are all mixed up.
If this post makes you vomit, show up at City and County Council meetings every other meeting, at least.
What we need is a storm the size
ReplyDeleteof Katrina.
all those trees have to die to refurbish something that's already there. Shame on-ya
ReplyDeleteThis has Joe Biden written all over it.
ReplyDeleteHas anybody been up to the old courthouse this week? On the ground floor were boxes of desks, cabinets and chairs. Apparently a few weeks ago some other office in the courthouse got all new desks. When questioned, it was said that the new furniture was already in the budget. The county is furloughing employees for 4 days but money can't be moved from one account to another to keep people with a full paycheck. My husband and I count on his paycheck and now his is being cut, but some office worker has a new desk or a new chair to sit in.
ReplyDeleteAlso, don't know what else is going on up there, but there was a lot of hammering and banging coming from the first floor. Anybody have any idea what that is about? More taxpayers money being put to good use?
What a screwed up mess this is.
Greg Jarrett (remember him when he was on-air here?) did the Fox story I saw--the Mayor did look really goofy. Fox was all over that story, saying the stimulus projects were supposed to be "shovel ready" and the new Boardwalk won't be started until sometime late in the year. The project had to be applied for; the Mayor sounded like "yeah, the money was handed to us, so we took it".
ReplyDeleteYou cant get to the boardwalk if the bridge falls down before you get there...fix the bridges..
ReplyDeleteNew furniture was in the budget...?when it arrived send it back..not a necessity...i need a new desk and chair but i cant afford one and I cant afford to pay taxes so someone else can have one. fix the old one...get real
ReplyDeleteI dont know dude, but I could tell you some stories about the top of that building when I was waved and a wee-lad. Hot in the summer, I went from 15 to old quick.
ReplyDeleteJoe, BOTTOM LINE this stimulas money is just another wastefull spending excuse of government, dam shame, makes you want to cry, and just give up.
ReplyDeleteThat had nothing to do with stimulus money. Besides, Jimmy's got something new he can run on now. :<)
ReplyDeletethis pork is so fat it made live fox news last nite on t.v obama nomics at its finest. wonder if biden or some of his buddies has interests here.
ReplyDeleteLike old man McCain would be doing any better? Come on. Get your head out of the sand people. Sure, this spending hurts now, but Obama will be considered a hero years from now. Just as Joe is quick to tell people to click the red X in the upper right corner if you don't like what you're reading, if you don't like living in the modern day US, feel free to leave.
ReplyDeleteWe have been subsidizing Ocean City's beach for decades. Ten's of billions if not 100's of billions to pump sand on the beach so the condos don't fall in the ocean. If the condo owners want beach, let them pay for it.
ReplyDeleteStimulus should be for critical infrastructure not extrvagances, just another failure of this stimulus.
11:07 OOOOOOOOOK, and then figure out just how your sorry ass will adapt when the County and State doesn't get the various taxes brought in by all those condos and visitors. Worry about where your from and leave Ocean City alone.
ReplyDelete1:35, what 11:07 is saying, If the condo's(tourism industry) can't make enough money to pay for the sand, why take that money, give it to the government, have the government give it back to the sand people, and all of a sudden it's more money than before= inland subsidized coastal condos.
ReplyDeleteIf a local industry can't pay for its needs, it should wash into the ocean.
Personally, though, I think it does through oer tax system, but 11:07 needs to chase down those numbers before complaining!
Well, we buy new furniture and other items, but we may not carry money over to the next year. I do njot understand gov but we as people try to save a little for hard times. I guess gov just can not understand hard times
ReplyDeleteGovernment doesn't understand hard times, they just print more money and give it away. To the rest of us, doing this just makes for less that we can buy for our dollar.
ReplyDeletePeople that live in Montana help subsidize the sand on Ocean City's beaches with their tax dollars. Ask them how they feel about that!