MORE SIGNS!

While driving through Ohio over the weekend, I noticed a few of those signs that have saved or created 180 billion jobs, like the one above. The first thing I noticed about each of the locations where these signs were planted, was the ONLY indication that there was any work going on anywhere near the sign was the sign itself.

We were driving around I-270 on a miserable stretch of road and there on the right side of the road was a sign proudly proclaim that the “project” was funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The sign itself was the only indication that anything was being done about the condition of the road. Nobody was working and there was absolutely no indication that anything had been done to improve the condition of the road.

But just like the idea that “jobs can be saved” by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the mere presence of the P-BO propaganda sign caused the ride in the car to immediately smooth out, the shocks to recede from the top of the fenders, the tires to immediately re-inflate to the proper tire pressure, the front end alignment to return to the factory setting and the rims to straighten as if they had never fallen into an 18” pothole on a stretch of road being blessed with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. That funding apparently is limited to putting up a sign.

I spied two other American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signs with not one bit of evidence that any work – other than placing the sign – was taking or had taken place at or even near the site. When we left town, we drove out 315. The road was torn up for miles with barrels everywhere. I kept a close eye out for one those job creating American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signs but didn’t see one. So a place where actual construction was taking place there was no sign to be found. But signs could be found where there was no evidence that work was taking place.

So I guess if we can just hire 4 million people to just go around the country putting up and taking down these signs we can solve all our unemployment problems. But the placement of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act sign is only half the story. While looking into this piece I came across this sight. If this doesn’t have US Government written all over it nothing does. We are paying people 100s of thousands of dollars to come up with this kind of detail for the signs that are “saving” jobs.  Five pages drawing out every aspect of the signs appearance and conditions under which it can be displayed.  The primary condition is that no work can be taking place anywhere near the sign.  No doubt, if the placement of the any part of the sign is off so much as a 1/4 inch, the whole thing has to be re-done.

I suspect that the only jobs being “saved” are the jobs of the guys designing, making and putting up and taking down the P-BO propaganda signs.