From nowhampshire.com
Arguing in favor of President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in January Democratic Congressman and senate candidate Paul Hodes claimed the stimulus act would “Reduce Soaring Unemployment.”
It hasn’t worked out that way.
Instead, according to a report issued by the New Hampshire Office of Economic Stimulus, the stimulus act has created only 96 private sector jobs and has “saved” a little over 700 state government jobs. Meanwhile unemployment has climbed to 6.8% since the stimulus became law.
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A NowHampshire.com investigation reveals almost $37,000 of that money went to a Bedford beauty school that does not grant degrees.
The Office of Economic Stimulus granted Coiffures by Michael, Inc. $35,088 in a “direct payment for specified use,” and another $1,571 in “student financial assistance.”
Coiffures by Michael runs Michael’s School of Hair Design and Esthetics. The school promises “no learner is left behind.” Guest speakers at the school include Dean Banowetz, the self-proclaimed “Hair Ho.”
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Other stimulus funded programs may raise eyebrows, as well, including $68,590 for youth theater in Henniker, $35,008 for a pot washer at Manchester’s Beech Street School and $293,100 for the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
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Inmates are getting broke off, too. Thank you Easter Bunny. Boc Boc.
Prisoners wrongly received stimulus checks
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“But how could I have been prepared for what I saw in Detroit, where I met a group of African-American teachers who have taken it upon themselves to elevate Africa on pedestal so high it would embarrass most Africans who were born and live there.
All these men and women, in their dashikis and floral ensembles of the type common in West Africa, want their sons and daughters to grow up as “strong African children,” in the words of a certain Mama Humphrey, the founder of a noted Africa-centered charter school in Detroit.
“A lot of us don’t call ourselves Africans,” she told the teachers on the humid morning when I attended a professional development session for the teachers, most of whom have African names. “We don’t know who we are…It feels good to be an African– today and everyday.” She launched it higher when she declared: “We are at war.”
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Mickey D’s got a website for us colored folks.
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Now THAT’S funny!
No joke, comedian sued over mother-in-law humor
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Microsoft Edits Black Man Out of Photo, Apologizes
Stupid!
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Peace~
