$205,075 to ‘Translocate’ One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Pr

Really?

"(CNSNews.com) -- The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to “translocate” a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009.

“In October 2009, an ecologist identified a plant growing in a concrete-bound median strip along Doyle Drive in the Presidio as Arctostaphylos franciscana,” the U.S. Department of Interior reported in the Aug. 10, 2010 edition of the Federal Register. “The plant’s location was directly in the footprint of a roadway improvement project designed to upgrade the seismic and structural integrity of the south access to the Golden Gate Bridge.

“The translocation of the Arctostaphylos franciscana plant to an active native plant management area of the Presidio was accomplished, apparently successfully and according to plan, on January 23, 2010,” the Interior Department reported.

The bush—a Franciscan manzanita—was a specimen of a commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries for as little as $15.98 per plant. The particular plant in question, however, was discovered in the midst of the City of San Francisco, in the median strip of a highway, and was deemed to be the last example of the species in the “wild.”"

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/shovel- ... us-project

Hang on just a minute, if you hire contractors and have an expectation of getting satisfaction it can get pricey. Then again, Barry might have hire this crew to to do the job, based on the talent in that crew we got a bargain...

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I read the headline and thought this was about Romney's landscaping. Gotta make room for that car elevator.

JSG wrote: I read the headline and thought this was about Romney's landscaping. Gotta make room for that car elevator.

LOL. Keep up the good work.

I wish it was paid for and done to make Romney's elevator, at least then it would be a stimulus to the economy instead of a waist of tax dollars.

Yeah, like that money didn't go into the economy. It didn't go to the contracting company and the workers. It just mysteriously disappeared.

JSG wrote: Yeah, like that money didn't go into the economy. It didn't go to the contracting company and the workers. It just mysteriously disappeared.

That was my tax money.

So? My tax money went to pay for a bunch of stuff I didn't want, too.

Join the club.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

JSG wrote: Yeah, like that money didn't go into the economy. It didn't go to the contracting company and the workers. It just mysteriously disappeared.

That was my tax money.

Thank you.

JSG wrote: Yeah, like that money didn't go into the economy. It didn't go to the contracting company and the workers. It just mysteriously disappeared.

LOL, Ok so why doesn't the Government just fix the economy and pay contractors millions of dollars to eliminate all the Bushes on the planet then?
We're "mysteriously" loosing money by the truck loads, so we better be getting bigger trucks don't ya think?