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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100805:11:25:00

Absolutely don t need instead of driving productivity. well, here to respond is the winter haven city commissioner who accepted that stimulus package. jamie beck et. nice to see you this morning. thanks, clayton. nice to be here. do you agree with senator coburn that we wasted money on stupid stimulus projects with this bus project in your city, was it stupid? well, i agree with the concept. i wouldn t use the term stupid necessarily but he s absolutely right. and the problem is not limited to washington, unfortunately. we municipalities share it. spending money isn t something that you do because the money is available. it s something you do because you have to. and in this case, frankly, we overspent, i think. why did you do it? let s take a look at some of the money here on the screen because this is part of the breakdown of this. $2.4 million, stimulus funds for these new buses, five new buses, only transporting 14 people an hour and you re in a city of 35,000 people not ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20100804:11:48:00

Than growing because it didn t put money that would give the american children who are going to pay for this program the greatest bang for the buck. right. instead, we did stupid projects, spent money we didn t have on things we absolutely don t need instead of driving productivity and driving job creation and using priorities. and who would be surprised actually, senator, because there is so much waste going on in the government? only thing is people are paying attention to it now because everyone s pocketbooks are tighter! people don t have jobs and people are looking for money. now, i want you to listen to what robert gibbs said yesterday because he basically said that your report didn t mean much. listen to this. acknowledgment that most projects might not be i think there was an acknowledgment on their part in pulling a couple of their projects out of their report that weren t ultimately recovery projects. i think this has much more to do ....

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