Monday, July 19, 2010

Signs that the stimulus spending is having an impact

No, no, no. I'm not talking about data proving the success of the stimulus spending bill; there isn't any.

I'm talking about the signs going up all over the country to mark specific projects as beneficiaries of the stimulus money, those green road signs heralding the taxpayer-supported munificence of your federal government. I Hate the Media reports that some $20 million has been spent on these things - which is probably a boon to sign manufacturers, but of no practical use to anyone else.

Very...FDR-ish, wouldn't you say? Brings to mind the old National Recovery Act, the logo of which appeared everywhere during the early years of the Roosevelt administration.


Oh, and incidentally, the National Recovery Act was eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

5 comments:

auditions-auditions said...
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Paco said...

The first comment I got was spam (sigh).

bingbing said...

Hey, we've got 'em, too. WOOT WOOT!

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/02/14/1119261/kambala-420x0.jpg

All for our $16.2 billion Building the Education Revolution.

JeffS said...

Look at the bright side, Paco: all those signs can be used for siding in makeshift housing by the homeless. They're quite sturdy, y'know!

richard mcenroe said...

Never mind that in the African-American community of the day, NRA stood for "Negroes Robbed Again" because it utterly devastated the black business community...