By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--July 22, 2009
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— $971,711.42 to “replace pond liners” at the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery in Cole Harbor, N.D.We’re thankful to this administration now that the pond liner crisis has been averted.
— $193,077 for a “double-vault toilet building” at the Hoyer Campground in Spokane, Wash. — $487,944 for “toilet buildings and vaults” in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests — $254,000 for “pre-fabricated restroom facilities” in Atlanta, Ga.They’re shoveling up a whole lot of money on #.
— $17,110 in hotel bills at a Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Va., for the Employment Standards Administration’s annual “Prevailing Wage Conference.”Were the waiters on the prevailing wage too?
— $326,304 for “roadside vegetation removal” in the Six Rivers National Forest in Eureka, Calif.Weeds.
— $928,194.50 to nine different firms to provide an “increased level of effort for dtv [digital television] installation”An “increased level of effort”. Are we talking “greasing the wheels” as it were…?
— $6,066.18 to buy “three laptop computers” for the National Fish and Wildlife ServiceMust be some damn good laptops. Hopefully they won’t get left behind on some park bench.
— $4,250 for “short-term vehicle rental” from Enterprise Rent-A-Car in order to “run errands” in Kings Canyon National Park in King’s Canyon, Calif.What the hell kind of errands does one run in a national park?
— $840 to “disassemble” one desk and “properly reassemble and relocate” 2 other desks in Reston, Va.The president told us we would get transparency. Maybe a tad more than he wanted.
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight