Stimulus Money Plants Flowers, Trees

The Pocatello Housing Authority recently spent nearly $14,000 in federal “stimulus” funds to plant new flowers and trees and install new sprinklers at a Pocatello housing project. The project generated no new jobs, even though that’s what stimulus money was supposed to accomplish. Don Thompson, the outgoing director of the PHA, said the landscaping and sprinkler improvements were made to “improve the curb appeal” of the public housing project and cut back on water usage. “We put in some flowers, and re-did the area in the front; put some rocks in and removed some lawn, put in some plants instead of having so much lawn, took some older trees out and put some new ones in, those kinds of things. To cut down on our lawn mowing”/ Idaho Freedom Foundation . More here .

Question: Do you think the enormous stimulus package was used to good purpose in this country?