Here's how stimulus money gets spent by beaurocrats.
Partial quotes:
More than $400 million in federal stimulus money has come to New Hampshire this year, and more is on the way.
Of that, $2 million has been tapped to provide oversight through a five-person Office of Economic Stimulus (OES) and to cover the cost of auditors at smaller agencies throughout state government.
(beaurocrats).
Actual funding for the OES will be closer to $1.5 million for salaries, benefits and expenses (
for 5 people), he said. The remaining $500,000 will be for positions at other departments.
So far, a total of 50 jobs have been created by the funding, 34 of them full time.
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I'll do some quick math, let's see.........400 million dollars for 50 temporary jobs. Hold on.........I'm thinking........
Got it! It's only 8 million dollars per job.
Yippie!
The good news is that they're applying for billions more. That should get a couple hundred more jobs.
We're on our way to recovery now.
UnionLeader.com - New Hampshire news, business and sports - Stimulus: Millions in grants, tons of scrutiny - Monday, Jul. 13, 2009
I'll check that government website and see if this is on there. Don't hold your breath.