Obama Fiddles While the West Burns

Not like he's playing politics or anything, but almost $3 million in "stimulus" money that was supposed to be for fighting wildfires is being spent restoring public parks and watersheds in Washington D.C., which, last time we looked, had no national forests.

Our U.S. Forest Service has directed that $2.8 million in "Wildland Fire Management" monies, approved under the Porkulus law, go to folks that will create "green jobs" in the nation's capitol.

The spending caught the attention of a group of Western legislators, who noted that D.C. had no national forests, while forests throughout the West continue to burn. A wildfire in California destroyed some 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest, resulting in the deaths of two firefighters.

Hat tip The PiratesCove
Cross posted at Say Anything