Wednesday - December 09, 2009

Stimulus is another way to spell payback and corruption

Mark Penn’s two firms got $6 million from stimulus for PR campaign
By Alexander Bolton - 12/09/09 12:00 AM ET

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.

The article goes on to mention the dickless Republicans, doing too little too late. As usual. But look! Something new!

The GOP senators highlighted the direction of the stimulus funds on the same day Obama outlined a new series of proposals for creating jobs that Republicans view as another stimulus measure. The proposals include tax cuts for small businesses, tax incentives for employers to hire new workers and infrastructure spending.

The need for additional measures has raised questions over the efficacy of the stimulus package passed earlier this year.

Oh, I get it. Now that Fearless Reader and his underling the Wicked Witch have paid off all the unions, all the left wing racketeers like ACORN, provided fat cash to all their pals, given massive paybacks to all of their political contributors, and built an unvetted cabal of communists, anarchists, pedophiles, and raving socialists at the very top of the government, NOW they can step back a little and start putting classical Conservative measures into place that have been proven time and time again to be the only things that actually stimulate the market.

Because taking care of all your pals, and making sure that they’re all nearly drowning in cash is far more important than helping the nation recover. That’s merely an afterthought.

Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said the three jobs saved at Burson-Marsteller represented a poor value for taxpayers.

“It illustrates a very poor way to create jobs,” Kyl said. Kyl said the appropriateness of Democratic strategists receiving funds “depends on whether they exerted some influence.”

The digital television advertising campaign ranked as No. 3 on the list of 100 projects that GOP senators on Tuesday highlighted as “pure waste” in the billions of stimulus funds spent this year.

Senator Kyl is just as clueless as that other Arizona Senator. He’s drunk the Kool-Aid, and buys into the “jobs saved = jobs created” mantra. Idiot. AND he’s implying that it’s OK for this PR firm to get such a payback IF they had influence? Influence where Kyl baby? With the Hildabeast? Well, no shit. With the effectiveness of their ad campaign? Double idiot! The government never should have spent one red cent on such a campaign to begin with. Getting that analog to digital TV message out was the responsibility of the TV networks. Not the government. And please ... we all knew it was coming years ago, to the point that we all just shook our heads when the switchover was delayed yet again last time. Everybody knew, and was beyond sick of hearing about it. So NO: forking out a truck load of cash to her PR firm to run such a info campaign less than 2 months before the instantiation date was a total waste. That too was a payback.

We are so screwed.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/09/2009 at 11:12 AM   
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