Tag Archives: Stimulus

Kentucky Agriculture Gets Stimulus Boost

October 29, 2009 – 12:59 pm

Gov. Steve Beshear announced yesterday $850,000 in socialist Federal funding to help Kentucky’s farmers become more energy efficient. Coordinated by the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy, the funding marks a substantial step toward greening-up the Commonwealth’s rural economies; so says the press release:
The energy stimulus incentive program will provide 25 percent reimbursement of the actual cost of a [...]

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If a bridge falls in the Ohio…

September 14, 2009 – 4:36 pm

You have to give it to this city sometimes. Whenever there’s a freak natural disaster (or several), you can at least count on them to be vigorously retroactive in their efforts to haphazardly band-aid any infrastructural hemorrhaging. Be it debris cleanup due to freak flood, errant windstorm or biblical snowfall, you can rest assured that [...]

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McConnell Understimulated

July 27, 2009 – 12:28 pm

Muppet-faced creature of Washington Sen. Mitch “Beaker” McConnell is having fun on the tee vee! Fortunately for him, CNN’s John King is too brain damaged to point out that, over these past six months, the Kentucky senator’s own party has provided no alternatives whatsoever to any of these problems save vapid, obstructionist criticism, the “birther” [...]

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White House Touts Energy Efficiency Initiatives

July 10, 2009 – 3:51 pm

Although the following examples will be labeled by conservatives as a series of rapes further perpetrated upon the corpse of Ronald Reagan the American Taxpayer, Premier Obama’s dastardly gang of tree-hugging Trotskyites have taken to highlighting the results of their tiny stimulus bill — most likely in an effort to show Sean Hannity he knows [...]

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YouthBuild Receives Grant, Hope

July 1, 2009 – 2:17 pm

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded a nearly $700,000 grant to YouthBuild Louisville, an organization that aids unemployed, undereducated and generally disadvantaged teens and twenty-somethings in the River City.
The grant will allow the organization, which provides job training and high school education to disadvantaged 16- to 24-year-olds, to operate for another two years.
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Tax Wizardry & You

May 18, 2009 – 6:06 pm

Hey sucker: Want to know how much Uncle Sam is stealing from your debt-laden pockets right this very minute? Venture to nationalpriorities.org, whereupon you’ll discover the gross and obvious spending priorities of that last guy we had in the White House (I totally forgot about him, that one…) vs. our new, hopey one.
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KY Seniors To Get Stimulated

April 30, 2009 – 1:13 pm

No no no, not like that: The Commonwealth is slated to net $451,000 in stimulus funds for something called the Kentucky Senior Community Service Employment Program, which will provide career training to citizens aged 55 and up. [Read the full list here, via Business First]
The funding will create nearly 50 new jobs, according to the [...]

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Dam The Stimulus

April 29, 2009 – 11:10 am

Kentuckiana will see even more stimulus-related construction: The Army Core of engineers recently announced they had discovered a chest filled with $200 million in gold coins, which they’ve decided to spend on the region’s green infrastructure (kind of like at the end of ‘The Goonies’ where they save the town from greedy developers and bumbling crooks!). [...]

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High Speed Louisville

April 16, 2009 – 7:56 pm

Once upon a time, Kentucky’s sole Amtrak line, the Cardinal, provided slow and costly rail transportation to people who preferred to drive alone, thought trains were for the birds, and voted for Anne “Fuck Trains” Northup.
Since we’ve been without passenger rail service, the country has experienced price shocks in the per barrel cost of crude [...]

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Coming Soon to A Public Works Project Near You

March 3, 2009 – 7:53 pm

In order to raise visibility of the stimulus’ impact, President Obama today unveiled an emblem (pictured at left) that will adorn each and every highway expansion, bridge paint job, and bus stop that is under construction and paid for by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act.
No word yet on weather T-shirts or other apparel are [...]

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