Stimulus Money Went To Watching Movies and Playing Video Games

[Clementine]

It's like some companies got so much stimulus money (they didn't need) and they had to get creative in finding ways to spend it. Meanwhile, smaller businesses that actually could have been helped were left in the cold. What was the real goal with stimulus?

Stimulus Money Went To Watching Movies and Playing Video Games
Stimulus Money Went To Watching Movies and Playing Video Games | Independent Journal Review

 

[Clementine]

The stimulus was the biggest waste of money in history.

According to a report from the Energy Department’s inspector general, lithium ion battery manufacturer LG Chem used money from a $150 million stimulus grant to pay workers to watch movies, play video games, and volunteer at local nonprofit groups.

LG Chem cited poor demand for the Chevrolet Volt, the electric car for which the batteries were to be manufactured, as cause for its lackluster grant performance. The company’s Holland, Mich., plant, which received the grant, has not manufactured a single battery that can be used in electric vehicles, according to the IG.

 

[TheOldSchool]

I hope one of the recipients wasn't the asshole who beat me at Madden earlier

 

[BreezeWood]

- there is no explanation for the spent money mentioned above, just an offhand statement.


the 07-09 Republican Great Recession ended in June of 09 - stimulus money well spent.

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