Vel
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Why should anyone even think about giving the government MORE money when this is the way they waste it?
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Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to Translocate One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Project
By Thomas Cloud
CNSNews.com) -- The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to translocate a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009.
The busha Franciscan manzanitawas a specimen of a commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries for as little as $15.98 per plant. The particular plant in question, however, was discovered in the midst of the City of San Francisco, in the median strip of a highway, and was deemed to be the last example of the species in the wild.
Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to
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Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to Translocate One Shrub from Path of Stimulus Project
By Thomas Cloud
CNSNews.com) -- The government spent at least $205,075 in 2010 to translocate a single bush in San Francisco that stood in the path of a $1.045-billion highway-renovation project that was partially funded by the economic stimulus legislation President Barack Obama signed in 2009.
The busha Franciscan manzanitawas a specimen of a commercially cultivated species of shrub that can be purchased from nurseries for as little as $15.98 per plant. The particular plant in question, however, was discovered in the midst of the City of San Francisco, in the median strip of a highway, and was deemed to be the last example of the species in the wild.
Shovel Ready in San Fran: $205,075 to