Jan 26, 2010 ... A state senator from Ohio says his state is spending $1 million on road signs to  advertise the use of stimulus money for road projects. ... waste of taxpayer dollars ; One mayor argues $1 million could have gone toward fixing ... create jobs, there  is no evidence that putting up these road signs created any jobs.
Jul 14, 2010 ... One state brags it posts signs but manages to keep the process ... about $5  million of the $28 billion spent on road projects on signs – or less ... political  guidance on stimulus advertising" involving the Department ... "I think it's a bit of  an oxymoron to spend tens of millions of dollars of ... Not putting up signs?
Jul 17, 2009 ... Critics of the $787 billion economic stimulus package are up in arms ... The  Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for ... If states want to  put stimulus money to uses other than signs, they ... According to the U.S. DOT,  there were 1,995 stimulus-funded highway projects .... Advertisement ...
Using government credit cards to make taxpayer-funded purchases for items  such as ... Collectively, they produced 530 million pounds of yogurt last year, a 43  percent ... While intentions for the project were noble, the use of federal funds for  a .... in the state would be a better place to spend the stimulus money than  counting ...
Jan 29, 2012 ... In office for only a month, the Obama administration had already ... Tips Sign Up  ... The economic team believed that people were more likely to spend it if it felt  like ... Even as the stimulus was pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into ...  States had to advertise the project to allow contractors to submit bids.
One state even spent a million bucks to put up signs that advertise that they were spending on the federal stimulus projects.