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Reason Writers Around Town: Tim Cavanaugh In LA Weekly On Hollywood Stimulus
Put on your shades, put the
top down, crank up the ranchera tunes, and cruise
around Hollywood (the actual neighborhood, not the symbolic movie
industry) in search of your tax dollars. In the LA
Weekly, Tim Cavanaugh writes, "Hollywood has received
$23,338,327 in grants, loans and contracting. This money has
created just 20.57 jobs. That’s $1,134,580.80 per job. And as
interviews with recipients reveal, even that tiny jobs claim is
clearly false, with many of the claims of newly created positions
either impossible to verify or lower than reported." In Los
Angeles as in most other places, the bulk of stimuls funds are
going to maintain cash-strapped public agencies and to fund prior
commitments, not to save or create jobs.
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Fist of Etiquette|11.20.09 @ 7:21AM|#
If any of this goes into making Armageddon II: The Return of Harry Stamper, the entire stimulus will have been worth it.
db|11.20.09 @ 7:23AM|#
Why is that cartoon dude's forehead being penetrated by a severed penis?
|11.20.09 @ 7:35AM|#
A commie cesspool from day one.
Burn, Hollywood. Burn.
Rich|11.20.09 @ 7:47AM|#
"Initially we were reporting how many jobs you created and how many you retained — then they collapsed those data matrixes into each other.”
In the immortal words of Morpheus: "Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
"20.57 jobs", indeed.