Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 5:31:32 PM
Stimulus funds going to slashed programs
WASHINGTON — More than $3.5 billion in
economic stimulus funds are going to programs that President
Obama wants to eliminate or trim in his new budget.
The president's budget released this month
recommends getting rid of Army Corps of Engineers' drinking-water
projects, which got $200 million in stimulus funds, and a U.S. Department of Agriculture flood-prevention program, which received $290 million from the stimulus, a USA TODAY review of stimulus spending reports show.
The administration's budget plan says the corps and USDA
programs are inefficient and duplicate similar, more effective work by
other agencies. The proposed cuts indicate the programs shouldn't have
gotten money from the $862 billion stimulus package, said Tom Schatz of
the non-partisan budget watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste.
"It's certainly inconsistent, and it would have
been better to have this realization a year ago," Schatz said. "But if
inconsistency means they're going to cut the programs, it's OK. It's
the other way around that bothers us."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-17-stimulus-funds_N.htm