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Stimulating!

AliveInHim Wrote: Sep 05, 2010 6:45 PM

We had one of those stupid signs close to where we live. The only thing I ever saw were 6 or so men, with two actually doing the work while the rest looked on. The only thing that seemed to result from it was a stretch of sidewalk that nobody will use, because it runs along a minor highway that is in a rural area. That is, there's no neighborhood there, just fields, farmhouses, and an occasional small business. Yep, our gummint at work for us! NOT!

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Stimulating!

Here in DC, we have signs put up by the local city government that are usually a little more "helpful" than Obama's stimulus signs. They list what the construction project is and how much it costs, both to the DC city government and to the federal Department of Transportation. Here's one such sign that I snapped a photo of yesterday in the Gallery Place/Mt. Vernon Square area::

That's right: it's a $5.5 million dollar project for a "streetlight and street scape." I didn't see much "street scape" construction going on, so I'm just going to assume...

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