Weatherization boondoggle

May I underline for you the Alan Maimon story in Sunday's Las Vegas Review-Journal. It chronicles the beginning of Nevada's so-called "green jobs" weatherization efforts. And it reinforces every last one of my biases about government efficiency.

The program is off like a herd of desert tortoise -- hibernation, then slow, slow and slow. Fear not, behind schedule though it may be, it has still managed to spend $607,000 of somebody else's hard earned tax dollars to retrofit about a hundred homes.

G-d help us. You do the math.

Now, to be absolutely fair, as we always are around here, this cost per house could be skewed by the start-up costs. We shall see. Anyone want to lay any bets?

 For my money, this is going to end up being the full-on efficiency of the Obama government's "make jobs" program. And when all is said and done I'll bet more than a few connected pals personally "make" a pretty penny off this boondoggle. There's a lot of money floating around and question marks have already appeared. (I hope the Nevada AG and the new U.S. Attorney are reading and are up to their jobs.)

  (Postscript: The scary part of the weatherization program is not the lack of bang for the buck, it is that it is chump change compared to government health care "reform". Which, by the way, Harry Reid gave Louisiana a wheelbarrow full of cash for voting for his health care "reform" bill and Nebraska got 10 wheelbarrows full. What did Nevada get? Just wondering.)