Friday, September 17, 2010

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, September 17, 2010


In honor of my "brother" Phil's 50th birthday...

A Traditional Irish Drinking Song!
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2 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/63228/20100917/american-recovery-and-reinvestment-act-arra-los-angeles-stimulus-wendy-greuel.htm

[Los Angeles] received $111 million in stimulus under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act approved by the [Democrat-controlled] Congress more than year ago.

The Los Angeles City Controller said on Thursday the city's use of its share of the $800 billion federal stimulus fund has been "disappointing."

"I'm disappointed that we've only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million," says Wendy Greuel, the city's controller, while releasing an audit report.

* THAT'S... er... SLIGHTLY MORE THAN $2 MILLION DOLLARS PER JOB.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

According to the report, the Los Angeles Department of Public Works generated only 45.46 jobs (the fraction of a job created or retained correlates to the number of actual hours works) after receiving $70.65 million, while the target was 238 jobs. Similarly, the city’s department of transportation, armed with a $40.8 million fund, created only 9 jobs in place of an expected 26 jobs.

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

* HEY... ISN'T THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES A DEMOCRAT...???

* HEY... ISN'T THE LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATS...???

(*SMIRK*)

September 17, 2010 at 1:14 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091606645.html

[Washington D.C.'s] WJLA-TV has fired veteran anchorman Doug McKelway for a verbal confrontation this summer with the station's news director that came after McKelway broadcast a sharply worded live report about congressional Democrats and President Obama.

Amid the ongoing BP oil spill in July, McKelway covered a Capitol Hill demonstration by environmental groups protesting the influence of oil-industry contributions to members of Congress.

In his piece, McKelway said the sparsely attended event attracted protesters "largely representing far-left environmental groups." He went on to say the protest "may be a risky strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, who accepted $77,051 in campaign contributions from BP."

* REGULAR READERS OF NEWSBITES KNOW THIS... I WONDER WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE GENERAL AMERICN CITIZENRY KNOWS THIS...

After a brief taped segment updating efforts to cap the BP well, McKelway added that the Senate was unlikely to pass "cap-and-trade" legislation this year, because "the Democrats are looking at the potential for huge losses in Congress come the midterm elections. And the last thing they want to do is propose a huge escalation in your electric bill, your utility bill, before then."

* ANYONE WANNA TAKE A CRACK AT REBUTTING THIS...??? (*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)

[N]ews director and general manager Bill Lord] took exception to McKelway's reporting...

* YEAH. OBVIOUSLY. (*SMIRK*)

September 17, 2010 at 1:24 PM

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