{"id":16662,"date":"2014-12-10T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=16662"},"modified":"2020-11-11T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:46:03","slug":"obamas-shovel-ready-jobs-really-are-of-full-of-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=16662","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s \u201cShovel Ready\u201d jobs really are of full of manure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all, Do you remember back when Obama first took office? One of the first things the Democrats did was push through a $1 trillion dollar \u201cStimulus\u201d bill that stimulated only the national debt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Everyone knew that the whole thing was nothing more then a pile of horse manure, but who knew that this literally was full of horse manure and not just editorial license? In an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151029143713\/http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/12\/09\/shovel-ready-stimulus-funds-still-being-spent-on-manure-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News<\/a>, it seems we are still shoveling horse manure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Almost six years after the passage of the stimulus package, taxpayer dollars have finally found their way into a shovel ready project: $60,000 to haul horse manure. Sold as an opportunity to bring America into the \u201c21st century,\u201d the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus, is now being used to remove wild horse manure off of public lands. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8876\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm-300x240.jpg?resize=300%2C240\" alt=\"double-facepalm\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?resize=400%2C320&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/double-facepalm.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words fail me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>According to a contract awarded last week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will pay $58,650 to load, haul, and dispose manure from a corral in Burns, Oregon. The facility holds wild horses and burros found on the Oregon range where they await adoption. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>$60K to shovel horse shit? How much of this stuff have they got sitting there anyway? And if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, here are a few details on how the BLM wants this stuff shoveled up and hauled away.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<i>Manure shall be wind-rowed, piled if necessary, loaded, and hauled to a site for a beneficial use,\u201d the BLM said in their solicitation outlining the project. \u201cIf there is no beneficial use for the manure, then it shall be legally disposed of in a landfill or by another approved disposal practice.\u201d \u201cStockpiling of the manure shall not be permitted,\u201d they added. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/something-smells-fishy-and-it-certainly-isnt-fish.jpg?w=552&amp;ssl=1 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gee, I guess I won\u2019t be applying for that job. I like stockpiling horse manure. I\u2019m trying to corner the market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The contract is good through September 2015, with four option years; meaning stimulus funds could be spent on hauling horse manure until 2019. <\/i><i>The government anticipated that laborers would be paid $16.86 an hour plus fringe benefits for the job<\/i><i>. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the idiots in Washington can\u2019t seem to understand why people hate the government? This is one reason right there. You know, I have an idea. How about putting convicted criminals to work shoveling up all that crap? It won\u2019t cost anything like $17\/hour and frankly, I think it would do a few gangbangers good to \u201cGet up and personal\u201d with one of natures more aromatic fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3-268x300.jpg?resize=268%2C300\" alt=\"The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3.jpg?resize=268%2C300&amp;ssl=1 268w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The-Good-Idea-Fairy-3.jpg?w=393&amp;ssl=1 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thatisall<\/p>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;medium&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all, Do you remember back when Obama first took office? One of the first things the Democrats did was push through a $1 trillion dollar \u201cStimulus\u201d bill that stimulated only the national debt. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=16662\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[176,100,71,8,115,219],"tags":[222,15,18,8,34],"class_list":["post-16662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-moonbat","category-news-of-the-day","category-politics","category-stupidity-crime","category-the-good-idea-fairy","tag-good-idea-fairy","tag-incompetence","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-stupidity"],"views":1089,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20054,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=20054","url_meta":{"origin":16662,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s final State of the Union address","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"January 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight Barack Hussein Obama will give his final State of the Union address. 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