Economic Stimulus Funds Went to Climategate Scientist

Wish someone from this Administration would explain how awarding a grant to a lone scientist is going to add jobs. In this case it is is even worse as Professor Mann is one of the researchers involved up to his neck in Climategate which used flawed data on purpose to get the political outcome they wanted. This, like so many other instances of the stimulus package, is nothing more then propping up a crony who supports the Obama/Gore agenda of Global Warming. To give a grant to a professor who is under investigation for the climate fraud is nothing short of mind boggling.

Talk about wasting taxpayer dollars, this Obama Administration is going to be at the head of list. They throw money around like it does 'grow on trees' with little regard to how it is spent.

We agree 100% with Deneen Borelli, a full-time fellow with the National Center's Project 21 black leadership network who stated, "This misuse of stimulus money illustrates why tax cuts are a better way to stimulate the economy than letting the government decide where to spend taxpayer dollars. As is often the case, political considerations corrupt the distribution of government funds."

Economic Stimulus Funds Went to Climategate Scientist
The National Center for Policy Research

In the face of rising unemployment and record-breaking deficits, policy experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research are criticizing the Obama Administration for awarding a half million dollar grant from the economic stimulus package to Penn State Professor Michael Mann, a key figure in the Climategate controversy.

"It's outrageous that economic stimulus money is being used to support research conducted by Michael Mann at the very time he’s under investigation by Penn State and is one of the key figures in the international Climategate scandal. Penn State should immediately return these funds to the US Treasury," said Tom Borelli, PhD, director of the National Center's Free Enterprise Project.

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"It's no wonder that Obama's stimulus plan is failing to produce jobs. Taxpayer dollars aren't being used in the ways most likely to spur job creation. The stimulus was not sold to the public as a way to reward a loyalist in the climate change debate. Nor was the stimulus sold as a way to promote the Obama Administration's position on the global warming theory. This misuse of stimulus money illustrates why tax cuts are a better way to stimulate the economy than letting the government decide where to spend taxpayer dollars. As is often the case, political considerations corrupt the distribution of government funds," said Deneen Borelli, a full-time fellow with the National Center's Project 21 black leadership network.

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