Shots on the House

The stimulus plan, or “the recovery”, as the administration is dubbing it, is supposed to be well overseen by people like Vice President Joe Biden. Instead, we have towns receiving checks for problems they don’t even have. Sure, it’s easy to “spread the wealth around” when we’re dealing with massive amounts of money, but should we really dump half a million into a town to combat homelessness, when they’re not aware of a problem? Via Michelle Malkin, where I also snagged the thumbnail for this post:

The Town of Union is getting $578,661 in federal Recovery Act funding for a homeless problem that may not exist within its borders.

The money is coming from the federal Housing and Urban Development program to pay for homeless prevention and emergency shelter programs.

Union did not request the money and does not currently have homeless programs in place in the town to administer such funds, said town Supervisor John Bernardo.

“We were surprised,” Bernardo said. “We’ve never been a recipient before.”

Bernardo said he isn’t aware of any homeless issue in the largely suburban town.

Michelle notes that when the town went to the federal government to find out what they’re supposed to be doing with the money, they were urged to “get creative”. Nothing like vague mandates like that from federal officials to get the mind spinning.