{"id":7884,"date":"2010-01-17T04:59:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2010-01-17T04:59:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:59:01","slug":"the-stimulus-creates-another-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"The Stimulus Creates Another &#8220;Job&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add this guy to the roles of those who owe their livelihood to the Obama stimulus plan. Is he creating more jobs? No. &#8230;growing the economy? No.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s researching the myth that is man-made global warming.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic stimulus funds last June.\">A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic  stimulus funds last June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As NewsBusters reported on November 28, Penn State University is  investigating Professor Michael Mann, the creator of the discredited &#8220;Hockey  Stick Graph,&#8221; for his involvement in an international attempt to exaggerate and  manipulate climate data in order to advance the myth of manmade global  warming.<\/p>\n<p>According to the conservative think tank the National Center for Public  Policy Research, Mann received $541,184 in economic stimulus funds last June to  conduct climate change research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing to see stimulus dollars funding worthless but predictable make-work projects employing government workers whose jobs were never at risk in an era overseen by liberals hell bent on growing the public sector. It&#8217;s quite another to see funding of borrowed taxpayer dollars diverted to support a failed and blatant liberal cause.<\/p>\n<p>It should be a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add this guy to the roles of those who owe their livelihood to the Obama stimulus plan. Is he creating more jobs? No. &#8230;growing the economy? No. He&#8217;s researching the myth that is man-made global warming. A scientist in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal received economic stimulus funds last June. As NewsBusters reported on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-pork-patrol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7889,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions\/7889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}