Stimulus Was Wasted According CNN Poll.

Findings of a CNN poll released on January 25th reported that an overwhelming majority of Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the Federal stimulus plan has been wasted.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/25/poll.stimulus.money/index.html?hpt=Sbin

"A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday morning also indicates that 63 percent of the public thinks that projects in the plan were included for purely political reasons and will have no economic benefit, with 36 percent saying those projects will benefit the economy."

Do you remember this?

I wrote a post on February 10th, 2009, the headline which was Real Stimulus. In it, I regaled you with the higher points of a report by the American Society of Civil Engineers that bespoke, in alarming detail, the continued decay of our national infrastructure. It identified nearly $1.6 trillion in repairs to U.S. bridges, roads, locks, the power grid, and water treatment systems. Fixing these would not only create many hundreds of thousands of jobs, it would create a legacy of a healthy national infrastructure for decades to come.

Nope. They would rather pay for wetlands studies on the coast of California, or improvements to the Las Vegas Strip.

Count me with the 63%.