{"id":36138,"date":"2010-08-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:40:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:40:25","slug":"the_obama_weatherization_scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/08\/16\/the_obama_weatherization_scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Obama Weatherization Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: ‘Dispatch from Planet Stimulus,\u2019 by Stephen Spruiell at National Review Online\u2019s The Corner. The New York Times: ”Energy Funds Went Unspent, U.S. Auditor Says — The recession is lingering, and so is the unspent stimulus money that was meant to help end it. The latest example is the $3.2 billion that Congress voted in February 2009 as part of an economic stimulus package to simultaneously provide jobs and improve energy efficiency through block grants to states and cities. Only about 8.4 percent of the money had been spent by the beginning of this month…” This is the weatherization scam, and Mort Th\u2019Zuckerman referred to it in his opening paragraph in his Wall Street Journal piece. The weatherization program. Weather…? (laughing) This is economic expansion, economic growth. This is stimulus. He gonna create jobs. The weatherization program has gotta be one of the biggest scams to ever come down the pike — and with this regime, that\u2019s saying a lot. If you read Stephen Spruiell\u2019s piece, one reason they can\u2019t spend the money fast enough is the unions. Underneath every pile of crap in this country, you will find a union leader somewhere. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Somewhere in Alabama. He must remain anonymous, cannot give the name. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I am calling because I am one of the weatherization contractors you\u2019re speaking about.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yeah?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: I have firsthand experience about the program itself and I can tell you it\u2019s a pretty big joke. It is obviously nothing but another entitlement program. We\u2019re going into people\u2019s homes that they call unfortunate or underprivileged, and we\u2019re doing the things that the rest of us have to do on our homes at our own expense, out of our own pockets, whether it be insulating their homes or simply changing a hot water heater. But the biggest joke is actually from the administration\u2019s standpoint. From the administration\u2019s standpoint there\u2019s so much disorganization. I\u2019ve actually taken classes telling me how they want these things done, the exact things that they want done at a federal level, and then we turn around and go to the local agencies — and there are about 17 throughout the state 00 but each one of them has a different way that they want these things done. So it\u2019s not even efficient from the standpoint of just the work itself. We have to turn around and do things to appease certain administrators.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question out there, Can\u2019t Give Your Name. What are you weatherizing against in Alabama?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, basically we go to people\u2019s homes, they tell us they have $300 or $400 a month electric bills or gas bills and what we\u2019re supposed to be doing is bringing down those bills. So we may spend anywhere from five to $7,000 per home and once we do the work that we do, all it\u2019s supposed to do is bring down their electric bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re supposed to seal the air from flowing through the home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, and taxpayers are paying for the weatherization?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely, 100%, so nothing that comes out of the homeowner\u2019s pocket.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So five to $7,000 to weatherize a home in order to get a bill down a hundred bucks an month?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s average. Some of them are more. We\u2019ve seen \u2019em 12 to $15,000 a home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So it\u2019s going to take decades to pay all this back in terms of savings?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But then of course when the carbon tax hits everybody\u2019s utility bill\u2019s going to go up, canceling out the savings.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So this is a bunch of make-work designed to make Obama and the left look good, like they care and like they\u2019re doing things to help people with global warming and so forth. And there are no standards to it; you\u2019ve gotta make different… Well, you have to do things differently for every bureaucracy you\u2019re working with.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Absolutely. There\u2019s just complete disorganization on the whole thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How did you get into this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the guy that I work for, we\u2019ve done work for the government my entire tenure with this company. We work at the VA hospitals and things like that. But this is just a program that money was taken away from certain VA\u2019s — either that or just not able to get it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. I know. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Since that happened —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Money is being taken away from the food stamp program for Michelle Obama\u2019s obesity program?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) That\u2019s right. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Oh, that\u2019s how it works. Okay. So they took money away from the VA to weatherize places?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I say taken away, I don\u2019t have any documentation showing that but I can tell you that I stayed at the VA hospitals for about four or five years, and now we have absolutely nothing there. So I would imagine it\u2019s happened that way. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well… (sigh) Delightful. Just delightful. Thanks for the call, Can\u2019t Give Your Name. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk to you. Well, it is a pleasure to talk to you. Whey am I\u2019m not surprised? And this is tip of the iceberg when these people get their hands finally on your health care. Nothing\u2019s real. Nothing is real. The frustrating thing about it is the moment I hear Obama say, ‘We got a weatherization program. We need solar panels on the roof!\u2019 It\u2019s all bogus, especially as economic stimulus. This is insanity that these people think any of this matters. It doesn\u2019t matter to a hill of beans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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