Follow the Stimulus, Part 2: Stoves in Davenport, Iowa
Jake Tapper - ABC News May 29, 2009
On the blog and this morning on Good Morning America we took a look at some stimulus overhype –- a project heralded in the White House’s new “100 Days, 100 Projects” report that is not quite what it seems.
Here’s another one that is more complex than the simple idea that the stimulus bill is creating jobs or, as Vice President Biden writes in the report, that the White House is “using the Recovery Act to jump-start our economy today, while building a new foundation for the sustained economic growth of tomorrow.”
Project #55 in the report states that: “With the help of Recovery Act funding, Zeglin’s Home TV & Appliance, a locally-owned and operated company, is currently replacing stoves in Public Housing units in Davenport, Iowa, with American-made Whirlpool appliances.”
The reality: Zeglins TV & Appliance, Inc. in Davenport, recently placed an order for 160 stoves and refrigerators for public housing.
The order “is certainly helping an independent businessman like myself keep making payroll,” owner Jeff Zeglin told ABC News.
But... this was a project that had already been approved by (read on...)
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