Let's go study "fraud, waste, and abuse" of Tax $$$ by wasting $$$ at the Ritz Carlton

Members of a key panel created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus bill, have scheduled a meeting on November 22 to consider ways to prevent "fraud, waste, and abuse of Recovery Act funds." The meeting will be held at the super-luxe Ritz Carlton Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Agenda and Notice of Partially Closed Meeting of the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel

A Notice by the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board on 11/09/2010

Publication Date:

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Action:

Notice Of Partially Closed Meeting.

Dates:

The open portion of the RIAP meeting will be held on Monday, November 22, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Entry Type:

Notice

Page:

68841-68842 (2 pages)

Document Citation:

75 FR 68841

Document Number:

2010-28243

Shorter URL:

http://federalregister.gov/a/2010-28243

Summary

In accordance with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5 (Recovery Act), and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board's (Board) Recovery Independent Advisory Panel (RIAP) will meet as indicated below. Notice of this meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of FACA. This notice is intended to notify the general public of their opportunity to attend the open portion of the meeting.Show citation box

DATES:

The open portion of the RIAP meeting will be held on Monday, November 22, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.Show citation box

ADDRESSES:

The Ritz-Carlton, 2401 East Camelback Road, Phoenix, AZ 85016.

$800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.

The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study examining how to better encourage Africans to undergo voluntary HIV testing and counseling – however, only the penis-washing study received money from the 2009 economic stimulus law. The washing portion of the study is set to end in 2011. See more here

DEMS Get a $$$Green$$$ Christmas.... or should I say a $$$Green$$$ Holiday Season?

Harry and Nancy Deliver

The Democrats are right. Sleazy bribes and pork payoffs didn't start with their government health care takeover bill. They've been doling out taxpayer-funded goodies for votes all year. Harry Reid's latest Cash for Cloture deals are the culmination of Washington's 2009 shopping spree at our expense, writes Michelle Malkin....

A $54 million no-bid contract was awarded to a firm with little experience to relocate a luxury Bay Area wine train due to flood concerns......

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's backyard -- where he secured billions in high-speed rail stimulus earmarks from which he plans to fund a pie-in-the-sky public transportation line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.......

Democratic districts have raked in nearly twice as much porkulus money as GOP districts -- without regard to the actual economic suffering and job loss in those districts.....Harry and Nancy Deliver

California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who had already extracted $12 million in TARP funds for OneUnited, a minority-owned bank that is one of her key campaign donors and a company in which both Waters and her husband own massive amounts of stock......

$300 million "Louisiana Purchase" for Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu .........

$45 million "Cornhusker Kickback" for sellout Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska.......

Pork is busting out all over.

Shepard Smith and David Williams tackle latest Budget.

Fish food in Missouri.
Bicycle racks in wealthy Georgetown.
Water taxis to "nowhere" in Connecticut.
Bike Racks in Georgetown.
Water Taxi to nowhere.
Skateboard Park.
1/2 mil for homeless in town with no homeless.
These are among the most wasteful spending projects before Congress this year The attention on pork comes as Congress prepares to raise the federal debt ceiling while pushing a new jobs-creation package that could run into the hundreds of billions.

$160,000 Per Stimulus Job?

Jake Tapper works his calculator. WH calls it ABUSE
The White House argues that the actual job number is actually larger than 640,000 -- closer to 1 million jobs when one factors in stimulus jobs added in October and, more importantly, jobs created indirectly, such as "the waitress who's still on the job," Vice President Biden said today.

So let's see. Assuming their number is right -- 160 billion divided by 1 million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job?

Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic advisor to the vice president, called that "calculator abuse."

He said the cost per job was actually $92,000 -- but acknowledged that estimate is for the whole stimulus package as of the end of 2010.

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Where did the Stimulus $$ go? To CONVICTS ! ! !

“President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill has done more to help convicted criminals than it has to actually boost our economy and create jobs,” said Republican National Committee spokeswoman Sara Sendek.

The Inspector General of Social Security is now tracing the checks that were mailed to 3,900 prisoners at a cost of nearly $1 million after yesterday’s report in the Herald..............

One day after the Herald reported some surprised Bay State inmates - including murderers and rapists - were cashing in $250 stimulus checks, federal officials revealed the same behind-bars bonus was mailed to nearly 4,000 cons nationwide.

Did you know you paid for "THUNDERCRACK"?

National Endowment of the Arts gave $25000 to a porn movie.

H/T to Real Revo