This Post Was Not Funded With Stimulus Money
CNN reports that Ohio has spent $1 million in stimulus on signs to let Ohioans know which projects are being funded by the stimulus.
Over at the Consumerist, a commenter offers one of my favorite justifications for this sort of waste, a variation on the broken window fallacy:
As long as the signs were made in this country and employed people, why is this bad? It put people to work.
Good point! In fact, Ohio should another billion or so on signs designating everything in Ohio that's not being funded by the stimulus. And perhaps for each of those signs, another sign informing Ohioans that the original signs and their companion signs are courtesy of the stimulus.
I mean, think of how many people you could put to work!
