More Turtles in the News - Your Tax Dollars at Work

Here we sit with the worst economy since the Great Depression and we're spending ourselves into oblivion in some interesting ways. Last year I wrote about the $400,000 turtle crossing on Highway 93 in Montana between Missoula and Polson. Well, they've done it again.

Using stimulus dollars to create jobs the Florida Department of Transportation was awarded $3.4 million big ones to build fences and tunnels around and under State Road 63. The purpose of the project is to allow the safe passage of wildlife, namely the slow, shelled reptilian kind to cut down the road kill.

The Dept of Transportation went Federal for the stimulus dollars when the locals wouldn't support the project. And ... drum roll please, it created exactly one job. It would have been cheaper for the government to have paid this person $200,000 for the year and saved $3.2 million in cash and a few turtles.

Vote the bums out in November ... Republican, Democrat, needs to go.