The Stimulus Myth: Disguising BRA’s Bailout

Who are Paul Krugman's "distressed families" who benefited from the stimulus package?

Tuskegee, AL

Paul Krugman wrote a column today about the economy that just didn’t sit right with me.

The common wisdom is that Barack Hussein Obama spent nearly a trillion dollars in a failed attempt to “stimulate the economy.” In the process, he dramatically expanded the size of government, which led to the Tea Party backlash against Democrats in the 2010 midterms.

Actually, Krugman is right when he points out that there are fewer government workers today than when Obama took office.

The Republican controlled state governments have been cutting benefits and laying off thousands of government employees because most are required by law to balance their budgets.

Since black people are disproportionately employed in the government/diversity complex, these budget cuts are wiping out the black middle class, which is why black unemployment is now surging to record highs.

From 2007 to 2009, the average black household lost 83 percent of its net worth, collapsing from $13,450 to $2,170. In the same period, the average White household declined in value from $134,280 to $97,860.

Krugman is also correct when he points out there was never any huge work relief program like the Works Progress Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps from the Great Depression.

In the last three years, have you seen anything comparable to the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Hoover Dam emerge from the “American Investment and Recovery Act”?

The WPA and CCC left a massive footprint in Alabama which can still be seen all across the state today. Whenever you visit a state park or drive down a county road in rural Alabama, you are likely reaping the benefits of Depression-era investment in public infrastructure.

Krugman’s point is that “the stimulus package” was nothing resembling FDR’s New Deal. If it wasn’t a job program for the unemployed, just what the hell was it then?

In the few cases we have taken a look at “stimulus package” spending, we saw that the Obama administration was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to employ black contractors to tear down blighted ghettos in Michigan and replace them with “green homes” which could be sold below cost to Detroit welfare queens.

Also in Michigan, we saw that millions of dollars was being spent to build these broadband networks and computer labs in the ghetto for illiterate African-Americans can watch movies and download pornography on golden chairs in the Detroit Public Library.

Yesterday, I learned that more of these broadband networks are being built in Alabama by black contractors in economic dynamos like Gee’s Bend and Tuskegee, which is such an egregious example of squandering White taxpayer dollars that it makes you wonder whether such projects are the exception or the rule in the “stimulus package.”

$59 million dollars had been given to Trillion Communications Corp. for that project.

When I probed deeper into the nature of the “stimulus package” in Alabama, I learned that over $3 billion dollars in federal “stimulus” dollars had been spent here, which in today’s dollars is about 5x as much as was spent here during the Great Depression.

Where did all this money go?

It turns out that 39.79 percent went to health and human services, 18.13 percent to education, 17.76 percent went to workforce, 12.77 percent went to transportation and infrastructure, 2.2 percent to housing, 4.7 percent to public safety, 2.47 percent to energy, and 2.17 percent to environment.

As you can see, “health and human services” spending was by far the biggest item of the “stimulus package” in Alabama. Do we have any idea of what the “stimulus” money was actually spent on?

(1) FMAP Increase – $799,644,323.00 (Federal Medical Assistance Program – Medicaid)

(2) Food Assistance (SNAP) Client Benefit – $211,493,824.0 (EBT Cards – Foodstamps)

(3) TANF – Emergency Contingency Fund – $32,311,593.0 (Welfare)

(4) TANF – Supplemental Grant – $11,093,254.0 (Welfare)

(5) Increase in Unemployment Compensation Benefits – FAC Benefit – $232,505,125.0 (Unemployment Benefits)

Unlike the New Deal, that is why Obama’s “stimulus package,” which was over 5x the size, is simultaneously wildly unpopular and yet completely invisible in Alabama. It is because the lion’s share of the “stimulus package” was channeled directly to African-Americans in the form of EBT cards, Medicaid, TANF welfare, and unemployment checks.

Just out of curiosity, I glanced through the cities where this money is being spent, as I wanted to see what Tuskegee – just as a test case of my theory – was getting out of the “stimulus package.”

There is a $56,938 grant to Tuskegee University from the National Science Foundation for “Collaborative Research: Aerial and Terrestrial Testbed for Research in Aerospace, Computing, and Mathematics.”

There is another $123,189 grant to Tuskegee University from the National Science Foundation for “Tuskegee University Robert Noyce Scholars in Mathematics and Science Education in the Alabama Black Belt.”

In total, Tuskegee got $14 million in federal stimulus money; Union Springs got $2.6 million; Greensboro got $10.2 million – Alabamians who are familiar with these cities know what this means.

I will just stop right there: it will suffice to say that the “stimulus package” in Alabama seems to be nothing more than a thinly disguised bailout for African-Americans designed to forestall the total financial collapse of black households.

$211 million dollars in “stimulus package” money has gone to funding EBT cards in Alabama. The temporary “stimulus relief” is drying up, but the dependency it created among African-Americans won’t be going away anytime soon.

This gives new insight into the ongoing negotiations over raising the debt ceiling and why liberals insist on calling default “a suicide pact.” It is a “suicide pact” because “The Day The EBT Card Stops Working” will unleash total anarchy in America’s major cities.

Obamanomics: Broadband Networks for “Alabama’s Africa”

$59 million dollars for broadband internet in the Alabama Black Belt

Camden, AL

“Gee’s Bend represents not merely a geographic configuration drawn by the yellow pencil of the river. Gee’s Bend represents another civilization.

Gee’s Bend is an Alabama Africa. There is no more concentrated and racially exclusive Negro population in any rural community in the South than in Gee’s Bend.”

– Reverend Renwick Kennedy, Christian Century, 1937

While I was at the gym this evening, I was watching FOX News on a treadmill when Mike Huckabee said something that caught my attention.

According to Huckabee, the Obama administration was spending millions of dollars in federal stimulus money to create broadband computer networks in Southwest Alabama. I found this strange because to the best of my knowledge no one in Mobile and Baldwin counties has any problem getting broadband internet service.

Why would the federal government need to spend stimulus money to create broadband networks in the Mobile metropolitan area? It didn’t make any sense until I got home, remembered this is Black Run America (BRA), and started attacking the problem with search engines.

It turns out that the Obama administration has given $59 million dollars in federal stimulus money to Trillion Communications Corp. to build broadband networks in Lowndes, Escambia, Wilcox, Butler, Dallas, Crenshaw, Conecuh, and Macon Counties.

Macon County is included on the list of broadband stimulus counties even though Tuskegee, site of the famously closed Tuskegee Walmart, is located between Montgomery and Auburn in East Alabama.

These other counties are mostly the sparsely populated Black Belt counties in West Alabama between Mobile and Montgomery. When I drove through that area on I-65, I noticed that the Verizon service was sporadic and that I was having trouble getting on Facebook.

Interestingly enough, Wilcox County is included on that list, which is the home of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, which like Tuskegee, is the closest thing to a rural African village in the United States.

Gee’s Bend has a long history of being a target of Northern philanthropy and state and federal welfare spending designed to uplift noble savages African-Americans. During the Great Depression, the federal government bought the Pettway plantation and sold it in parcels at a third of its cost to black sharecroppers

The town is closely associated with the Civil Rights Movement. Its quilts have been featured in the Smithsonian as “masterpieces” of African-American art.

In 2000, J.R. Moehhringer of the Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize with a feel good story about the Gee’s Bend ferry and the Civil Rights Movement, which was widely heralded by DWLs in the media.

During the 1960s, Camden shutdown the ferry service to Gee’s Bend to stop African-Americans from registering to vote at the Wilcox County courthouse. In 1965, Martin Luther King led a long forgotten march on Camden as part of his crusade for the Voting Rights Act.

In 2006, the Alabama state government spent nearly $2 million dollars to build a ferry-to-nowhere between Gee’s Bend (pop. 700) and Camden (pop. 2,200) to service the handful of African-Americans still living there who are inconvenienced by the racist geography of the Alabama River.

It struck me as such a huge waste of money at the time, a politically correct boondoggle, that I personally drove there, snapped photos, watched the sunset at the empty ferry, and rode through Gee’s Bend to see “Africa in Alabama” with my own eyes.

That was one of the first stories I ever blogged about. The Gee’s Bend ferry inspired me to start writing about racial issues in Alabama.

Now Gee’s Bend and Wilcox County are back in the news: as the recipient of an even bigger taxpayer subsidized ripoff which Barack Hussein Obama sold to the American public as his plan to “revive” the flagging American economy.

In May, we learned that the Obama administration was using federal stimulus money to create a twenty first century “information economy” by building broadband networks in Detroit where over 50 percent of the population is illiterate.

It turns out that Obama’s plan to “Win The Future” includes robbing White taxpayers to build more of these broadband networks for African-Americans in Tuskegee and Gee’s Bend.

This is nothing more than a kickback to his own Democratic supporters: Obama carried Macon County and Wilcox County with 86.9 percent and 71 percent of the vote respectively.

There is no plausible economic rationale for building broadband networks in Gee’s Bend. In 2009, 50 percent of blacks in Wilcox County were on EBT cards, and in 2008, gas prices were pushing African-Americans in Wilcox County back to using horses for transportation.

It is revealing that Booker T. Washington’s black entrepreneurs have completely failed to build their own Gee’s Bend ferry or to bring broadband internet to the black scientists we were unable to find working on Obama’s “Sputnik Moment” in Tuskegee. The government is required to step into the vacuum.

I’ve saved the best part for last:

Trillion Communications Corp, which received the $59 million dollar stimulus fund grant, is described as “the largest black-owned high-end telecommunications equipment distributor and installer.” It has an African-American CEO and an African-American Chairman of the Board.

The “stimulus package” is a myth.

No one who is seriously trying to “stimulate” the American economy would start by building “green homes” for welfare queens in Flint, Michigan, or broadband networks in the Alabama Black Belt, or high speed trains to service the ghettos of Birmingham and Detroit.

The Orwellian sounding “American Investment and Recovery Act” was a massive reparations bill that contained all sorts of shiny presents from the Black Santa Claus, Barack Hussein Obama, which were disguised in the rhetoric of “stimulus relief” and “green jobs.” Currently, we don’t even know 1 percent of the racial fraud and corruption that was included in the so-called “stimulus package.”

If you are wondering why Barack Hussein Obama failed to revive the American economy, look no further than squandering millions of dollars to build broadband networks in Gee’s Bend and Tuskegee, while calling it “The American Investment and Recovery Act.”

It might be “Twilight in America” for White people, but it has been “Christmas in America” for African-Americans under Obama, even if the artificially engineered black middle class is collapsing on his watch.

The economic rot that pervades Black Run America is worse than we ever thought. In Wilcox County, the Obama administration is spending $349,000 per home to bring broadband internet access to rural backwaters like Gee’s Bend, which are sustained only by EBT cards.

Why are the heavens waiting again?

Note: In the video below, you can watch John McCain and BRA’s Straight Talk Express taking a ride on the Gee’s Bend ferry-to-nowhere, which is quite a remarkable improvement over the original wire pulled ferry which capsized in the 1960s, seen in the photo and caption above.

Hopefully, you can now see why Martin Luther King described himself as a “democratic socialist” and why W.E.B. DuBois died a communist in Ghana. Obama’s views on communism are also said to be “evolving.”

Birmingham’s Decline

The sad and unnecessary decline of "The Magic City"

Birmingham, AL

Some new milestones in the long term decline of “The Magic City”:

(1) As the Birmingham Barons plan to relocate from Hoover to downtown Birmingham, fewer fans will be showing up in the stands because, you know, it is not worth the risk of getting robbed, assaulted, or murdered to see a baseball game.

According to Crime in Alabama, 2010, African-Americans are responsible for 77 percent of robbery, 55 percent of aggravated assault, 59 percent of burglary, 62 percent of homicide, 55 percent of rape, and 91.5 percent of interracial rape in Alabama.

You won’t find that in The Birmingham News.

(2) Mayor William Bell and the Birmingham City Council spend their time pardoning “civil rights activists” from the 1960s. This is the local version of what goes on in New York, which recently passed “gay marriage,” and California, which recently passed a law requiring “gay history” to be taught in public schools.

Like Birmingham, New York and California are bankrupt. Also like Birmingham, New York and California claim that illegal aliens are essential to our “economic vitality” in Alabama.

(3) The 2010 Census shows that 30,583 residents have left Birmingham. By 2012, Montgomery could surpass Birmingham to become the biggest city in Alabama. There is a slight civic advantage in not having to put up with thirty years of black city government.

Moral of the story: the business owners who thought they could strike a deal with the civil rights agitators of the 1960s and somehow compete with Atlanta made the biggest mistake in the history of civilization in Alabama.

340,887 people lived in Birmingham in 1960. After the “Civil Rights Movement,” 212,237 people live there today. Way to go, city fathers.

Surrender was good for business, right?