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July 19, 2009

Recovery.gov: $1.4 million to repair a door?

By Thomas Lifson
First it was frozen sliced ham for $550,000 a pound. Now, Recovery.gov is found to show paying $1,444,100 to fix a door.

$1.4 million door

Either these people are very sloppy in the way they publish their statistics, or the program is scandalously corrupt. Imagine that! A president who comes out of the Chicago political machine would never set up a program that becomes a magnet for graft would he?

First it was frozen sliced ham for $550,000 a pound. Now, Recovery.gov is found to show paying $1,444,100 to fix a door.

$1.4 million door

Either these people are very sloppy in the way they publish their statistics, or the program is scandalously corrupt. Imagine that! A president who comes out of the Chicago political machine would never set up a program that becomes a magnet for graft would he?