Jim Kouri
Public Safety Examiner
10/8/2011
According to a report, at least $5 billion in stimulus funds were allocated to “weatherization” programs nationwide with virtually no oversight and plenty of corruption.
While the news media focus on the Obama-led assault on Wall Street and finance, and the continued controversy over health care, a legal watchdog group has exposed another example of government mismanagement — even out-and-out fraud.
In the latest of many scandals involving President Barack Obama’s, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s monstrous economic stimulus, a fraud-infested welfare program to make low-income houses energy efficient is cheating taxpayers out of billions with a recent example documented in Wisconsin, according to public-interest group Judicial Watch.
According to a report by JW, at least $5 billion in stimulus funds were allocated to “weatherization” programs nationwide with virtually no oversight and plenty of corruption. The U.S. Department of Energy distributes the cash to local “community groups” that usually subcontract companies to do the actual work. Low-income homeowners get free insulation, sealing and even new central heating and cooling systems compliments of Uncle Sam. Some people even get new refrigerators, water heaters and furnaces…
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