Government Workers Using Stimulus Funds for California Vacation

No doubt the White House will spin this as saving/creating 2 gazillion jobs because these school employees are using $400,000 of stimulus funds to fly to California to attend a *cough, cough* conference.

Channel 2 Action News has learned that nearly 200 DeKalb County school employees will be boarding flights to Los Angeles this week to attend an education conference that will cost taxpayers nearly $400,000.

The money isn’t coming from local tax dollars but from federal dollars that came to the county as part of the Obama Administration’s 2009 stimulus package.

I'm sure this is exactly how the taxpayers envisioned their hard earned money that we shipped to Washington would be used. Unless you were like me, who remembered how the Katrina folks got their federal debit cards and spent it on everything from alcohol to hookers, which is pretty much the same thing these folks will probably spend the money on.

Yes, before you even ask, Dekalb County is a Democrat stronghold. They have been represented in Congress by Cynthia McKinney (C-GA) and now are represented hepatitis-C sufferer Hank Johnson.

At least they didn't go to Las Vegas. Too bad they didn't ask Nancy Pelosi to arrange the transportation. I hear she has her own government-run private charter airplanes.