VP Joe Biden Sent to Yellowstone and Grand Canyon
By Rocky Thompson on July 26th, 2010
Being VP is where it’s at. No one gets on your case for making bad decisions. Your only job is to make the president look good, and occasionally go to a function which he (or she) is invited but has no interest in attending. Crafty ol’ Joe Biden just picked up the dream VP junket - he’s heading to the a couple national parks to follow up on the cash they sent along as part of the Recovery Act funds.
More than 1,000 workers have already been part of the 17 Recovery Act projects at Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, according to a park release. Overall, there are 800 Recovery Act projects under way at national parks across the country this summer - eight times as many as there were last summer, the release added.
He’ll hit Yellowstone on Monday and then stop at the Grand Canyon on Tuesday.
i worked for the recovery act in the national forest. we put in a 400k$ bridge on a old road. the road was gated 6 miles before the bridge with boulders placed in front of the gate so you couldn’t get in with out an excavator to move the boulders and the road ended 1/2 mile after the bridge. we pulled out a 14′ dia culvert to place the bridge. Money hard at work on that one! I asked the FS why they didn’t just decommission the road and pull out the culvert they told me “well we got money and we have to spend it one something”.
Wow. What district did you work for and in which forest? So many districts out there that can actually use money. Sad.