Januaray 31, 2010
Source: CNN
A look at the very first project to receive stimulus money.
Replacement of (FDR-era) bridge over the Osage River in Tuscumbia, Missouri (Population 218), which provides the most direct link between Jefferson City (MO capital) and the Army’s Fort Leonard Wood.
Cost $9M.
Expected to create 30 direct jobs and 220 indirect jobs.
According to Recovery.gov, the actual number is 24.69 {calculated based on worker time sheet}. If you go to the site, you’ll be overwhelmed with all sorts of interactive graphs and numbers and dots. Impossible to assimilate. The point.
But the jobs weren’t really created – workers were already employed and moved to work on the bridge.
Area manager for contractor APAC-Kansas puts the “saved” jobs at about 10 and “indirect” jobs 240.
Not so according to local proprietor Wes Horton:
There sure as hell ain’t no land boom around here or nothing like that.
Like everything else barry related there has to be signage….that cost how much?
