Stimulus Update: Budget Busting Train Station named after "Sherrif" Joe Biden

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Budget-busting station named for Biden - Washington Times

Budget-busting station named for Biden
‘Sheriff’ lobbied for Amtrak funding

As a thank-you to its most famous customer, Amtrak is renaming the train station in Wilmington, Del., after stimulus “sheriff” Vice President Joseph R. Biden — after the project received $20 million in stimulus money and came in $5.7 million over the initial announced budget.

President Obama, soon after signing the Recovery Act in early 2009, designated Mr. Biden his “sheriff” overseeing the stimulus funds, charging him with regularly checking in with governors and mayors to try to prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the $821 billion economic recovery package.

Its like watching a 24/7 Comedy......

....even The Stimulus "Sherrif's" personal Pork Project was over budget.......spent in the name of Amtrack.....a government corporation that loses 500 million per year.

If I wasnt a taxpayer.....man would it be funny.
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....a 24/7 comedy......

Amtrak CEO | Ditches broken train to travel by car to ribbon cutting of Wilmington's Joe Biden station | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Amtrak CEO ditches broken train to travel by car to ribbon cutting of Wilmington’s Joe Biden station

Today’s the big day for Amtrak’s Wilmington train station. It is being renamed in honor of Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden following major renovations made possible with stimulus funds.

One problem: the CEO of Amtrak got stuck on the train.

ABC News Deputy Political Director & Political Reporter Michael Falcone tweeted at approximately 10 a.m. that the Acela train he was riding had been “delayed” in Baltimore and that he was sitting next to Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman.

Falcone tweeted, “Acela to NY delayed for ‘unknown period’ Should I feel better that the Amtrak CEO is sitting next to me?”

It quickly became apparent that the CEO’s presence wouldn’t fix the train. A subsequent tweet from Falcone noted, “BAD sign: Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman just got OFF the train to take a car to Wilmington.”

“Amtrak CEO abandoned his own train to make ribbon cutting ceremony for Joe Biden station in Wilmington,” Falcone reported. “When I told Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman it was a bad sign he was ditching the stranded Acela, he chuckled.”

Well at least somebody is laughing..........
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