Signs promoting stimulus cost taxpayers $9 Million

At a minimum, taxpayers have spent $9.1 million as of July 2010 on signs advertising the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus law.

But the cost is probably much higher since the six government agencies that spent stimulus dollars relied largely on sampling to get an estimate of how much money was spent on posting signs near Recovery Act projects.

Most of the signs read, “Putting America to Work,” and they include the ARRA emblem along with the Recovery.gov Web address.


While the Obama administration contends the signs provide transparency, Republicans believe the signs amount to taxpayer-subsidized propaganda.

Either way it was $9,000,000.00 that could have been spent in a more meaningful way.

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