$11 Million Grant to Clothe Detroit Job-Seekers Helps…Two
- Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:47pm by
Erica Ritz
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It‘s no secret that Detroit isn’t the most economically sound city, but somehow, it still finds a way to astonish us.
A recent audit of the Department of Human Services revealed that an $11 million grant to help clothe low income job-seekers in the city helped two, yes, two people. According to The Detroit News:
Among the most telling findings, which will be discussed today during a City Council committee meeting, is that a third-party contractor advanced $148,000 to a downtown Detroit clothing store and opened an account, but did not include the city on the account.
“It’s just another example that money is not as much of an issue [as] managing the money, whether it’s grant or general fund dollars that we have,” said Council President Pro Tem Gary Brown. “We have to find a better way to manage the resources and give Detroiters the value for the tax dollars they deserve.”
Though the program aimed to help 400 people between July of 2009 and September of 2011, “The DHS was only able to provide the auditors with two referral forms signed by two clients documenting that they received clothing from the boutique.”
CBS notes that applicants were required to have a job interview scheduled to participate, but presumably that’s not such a stringent requirement that only two people were eligible.
Furthermore, though the audit did not reveal why “400” was the target number of people to help, it’s significant to note that even that would equal a cool $27,500 wardrobe for each person, before associated costs. Unfortunately, “associated costs” were all that got taken care of in this case.
And this isn’t the first embarrassment of its type, according to The Detroit News:
The audit is the latest finding against the city’s Department of Human Services, which has been under scrutiny for chronic mismanagement of federal funds. Many of the department’s leaders have departed since an internal investigation was launched last year, including an inquiry into the purchase of $182,000 worth of high-end furniture for a department office. In 2009, the department received more than $11 million in stimulus funding and created a service center.
Would it have been better if the lucky two had just gotten a 5.5 million dollar shopping spree?
(H/T: Ace of Spades)
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Comments (89)
rjoco1
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:36pmI wonder if the two get to keep their bright yellow three piece velvet suits with the yellow fedora’s.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:48pmHip hop duds. I give up! Were doomed.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:57pm.
Report Post »$11 Million, for 2 pimp suits, I heard if they would have waited till Tuesday LeRoy’s Emporium & Bondage Supply was having a 2 for 1 Sale. And I bet those fool’s didn’t even use a coupon……
The_Jerk
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:58pmDetroit is the minority gimme city; soon to go nation-wide.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:07pm.
Report Post »CASSIETR does your roomate’s step-mother, act like that Fluke chick? 3+ Condoms a day? All I’m saying……
Baddoggy
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:18pmI wonder if they bought them Chevy Volts to go on job interviews with? Juat sayin….
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:18pmWill this blatant waste ever stop!!!!!!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:37pm@The_Jerk
Report Post »Agree
Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 4:52amThey don’t even attempt to dress that classy anymore. Have a fine dress wearing lady on their arm while decked out in a sports jersey and baggy pants is the way to go these days.
Report Post »000degrees
Posted on March 8, 2012 at 7:50amobama money!!!!! I don’t know where he gets it….maybe from his stash…….obamy..obamy…obamy….(paraphrasing)
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:36pmAnother money missing story? You are kidding me! They will now have to raise taxes to cover the loss! Its the rich’s fault or Bush’s? Don’t fix it fund it.
Report Post »What’s wrong with this song? http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_9134749
GETaSPINE
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:35pmwhere is the DOJ calling holder where are you?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:44pmIn ObamaLand… Justice is the Poor taking from the Tax Payer!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:33pmBREAKING NEWS: The liberal welfare experiment known as Detroit, has failed.
Report Post »GETaSPINE
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:31pmwhere is the DOJ calling Holder where are you
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:14pmNever happen he’s in on it maybe getting kickbacks
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:26pm10 (TEN ) Million 999,000 went to the Reelect Barry SCREW AMERICA FOUR MORE YEARS TOUR fund. 1,000 went to cater the DEMOCRAT PARTY PARTY.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:33pm13thimam
Report Post »Makes you wonder just how much of the stimulus really went to this clown. We already know about the Solyndra bundler, but wow we have no idea. Truly pathetic. Hoping Breitbart videos show something that can turn the tide.
ColoradoMaverick
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:18pmAmazing! Detroit has a bunch of naked unemployed people?
I often wonder how in the world the Obama administration has managed to spend 5-6 Trillion dollars with nothing to show for it.
Well… this is how!
Report Post »umreb78
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:15pmAnd this is “news”??? C’mon Blaze…just SOP for the Dumboma in Chief and his Leftanistas
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:12pmWhere is NBC on their “Fleecing of America” series…..You don’t see too much of those now that Obama is in office. This is exactly why I need duct tape around my head to keep it from exploding…Why are people not going to jail, this is wrong and illegal. Stolen money..how much of this goes on is sickening…
Report Post »Oldtruth
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:08pmUnfortunately this is business as usual rather than the exception when it comes to government mismanagement and misappropriation of our tax dollars!
Report Post »Razorhunters
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:07pmand who is going to jail for this…?
where are the arrests?
when you quit funding the beast…it will dle.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:09pmI AGREE follow the money and ARREST those who stole it .. it didn’t just disappear .. or maybe it did … anyone look in Obama’s campaign fund?
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:35pm@CatB
Could be part of obama’s reelection fund –ya think
Report Post »TEE-PAR-TEE
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:06pmi hear that testing nuclear weapons underground is no longer “safe for the environment”
Report Post »can anyone think of a new place to test them?
chips1
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 8:27pmI was thinking Barney Frank, but I heard it leaks.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:06pmBuild them a soccer field and hire them to maintain the grass by hand.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:05pmThose silly Tea Party people… wanting Government to be fiscally responsible.
RADICALS….. all of them.
5.5 Million per suit is just the cost of doing business…. IN THE DEMOCRATIC AMERICA
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:15pmI’m amazed that even two people received suits. It’s not as though anyone in Detroit actually wants to have a job where they actually pay taxes.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:04pmOblamer dollars stimulating the economy again…. He wants higher gas prices for the poor and middle classes. Disasterous Oblamer thinks throwing borrowered tax dollars make a government work.
The internal polling on Oblamer is horrible……His policy has destroyed the middle class and poor…..
Oblamer is 10 on the rictor scale of Jimmy Carter’s and our Country the USA is now the USSR of Greece.
Report Post »loggs14
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:04pmAnother daily reminder of how Democrats manage money, budgets, and accountability…. I also see a tiny investigation in Toledo showed fraud on people getting paid for lawn services that never have been completed… made up addresses, etc… no one knows how far that one will reach… again liberal run government…. waste, fraud, likely pay offs to friends in the end…. hmmmm…. how many times do we need slapped in the face before you duck from the hand… keep electing these lefties… disgusting.. these community thieves, I mean organizers…. Again where are the prosecutions, jail time, etc….
Report Post »haditup2here
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:03pmAnd those that lead in Detroit are trying their hardest to prove to the state that they don‘t need an Emergency Financial Manager to get them out of the financial pit they’re in after having Democrats in charge for DECADES.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:10pmThey should just finish what the riots in the 1960′s started .. burn it down and start over.
Report Post »NoLongerNonPlussed
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 5:14pmBe kind CATB. Those are liberal republicrat words that you are using. Let’s be a little more conservative in our views,opinions and deeds.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:16pmThat was kind! CATB’s comment is about as conservative and patriotic as one can get!
Report Post »marcus_arealius
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:02pmHardcore Porn – is it real? or amateur hour? Either way Detroit is a shining example of Democrap success. A total crap hole full of Obama voters.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:02pmThat’s cute, no one in Detroit is paying any taxes….
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:01pmWait- $11 million to help 400 people? That’s $27,500 per person. I’d like to go on that shopping spree!
Report Post »oldchevyguy
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:00pmWonder if the 2 that got the beautiful wardrobe found a job? Heads should roll for this one!
Report Post »Truth1776
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:59pmTWO people!? What mind boggling garbage! But that’s ok, PresBO will just print more money to replace what was lost, mis-spent, embezzled, or just out right stolen! Good grief is there no one of integrity at any level of government??!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:07pmSomeone should be going to jail .. but then it was Obama Stash .. remember it is Detroit .. gotta buy those votes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-Etb0k0Q
Report Post »T-2
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:57pm$27,500 per person. the clothes must have been hand stitch by union workers
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:20pmwith diamonds
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:56pmAnd there are still people who wonder why hard working, tax paying Americans are angry.
Report Post »I support God's Israel!
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 3:53pmAh Detroit, the pit of corruption, sleaze, and slime. It is a very dangerous place to walk through, ON ANY STREET. Thank the Democrats for that.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 4:08pmDetroit is bring the whole of Michigan down .. the rest of the state along with the federal govenment subsidizing this trash!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 7, 2012 at 6:19pmI’d say the last one out of Detroit should turn off the lights but……. the lights will already be turned off from the politician stealing the money that was supposed to keep the lights on.
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