Georgia Stimulus Projects Make List of 100 that "Give Taxpayers the Blues"
Press release from the issuing company
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Several projects in Georgia funded with federal stimulus dollars made a nationwide list of 100 endeavors that U.S. Sens. John McCain and Tom Coburn are questioning in a report released this month.
McCain and Coburn, both Republicans who voted against the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act last year, named their report “Summertime Blues: 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues.”
Their list includes Georgia Tech professors who received federal stimulus funds to understand how jazz, avant-garde art and Indian classical musicians improvise. The report cites an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article that describes the $762,372 study, which involves using brain imaging to learn how musicians do their work.
