Just when you think the Democratic Party cannot come up with more foolish ways to waste taxpayer money, along comes something so stupid it makes you think you are living in an alternate universe.

The Obama administration is going to spend $60 million to identify 10,000 Chicago-area school kids at risk for becoming victims of violence and basically become their mommas.

NY Times Article

Financed by federal stimulus grants for two years, the $60 million plan uses a formula gleaned from an analysis of more than 500 students who were shot over the last several years to predict the characteristics of potential future victims, including when and where they might be attacked. While other big city school districts, including New York, have tried to focus security efforts on preventing violence, this plan goes further by identifying the most vulnerable students and saturating them with adult attention, including giving each of them a paid job and a local advocate who would be on call for support 24 hours a day.

That amount of money, $60 million, divided by the number of kids, 10,000, comes to $6,000 per kid for two years, or $3,000 per kid for one year.  The kids get free jobs–which I am sure they will work really hard at–and an on-call nanny.  And those nannies will be, I am certain, Obama supporters who will be paid handsomely for their “work”.

This is just another payback to Obama’s inner-city backers.  More pay-for-play politics from Democrats.

Also from the article:

The students at highest risk of violence, by statistics, are most likely to be black, male, without a stable living environment, in special education, skipping an average of 42 percent of school days at neighborhood and alternative schools, and having a record of in-school behavioral flare-ups that is about eight times higher than the average student.

The students at highest risk of violence are black because the people perpetrating the violence are black.  It is interesting how they tend to mention the race of the victims but never the race of the perpetrators.  I guess they don’t want you to know who is committing the crime and violence.  That would be racist, right?

Watch this video of 16-year-old Derrion Albert being beaten to death with a two-by-four on the street in Chicago a few weeks ago.  He was a young black male beaten to death on his way home from school by other blacks.

Derrion Alert Video

Also from the article:

Reinvigorated gang wars, some say from the large-scale demolition of public housing and the scattering of tenants, have turned some West and South Side areas into terrifying places for children to crisscross.

What is most interesting is that while Chicago did have problems with organized crime during the 1920s and 1930s, crime and violence soared as Democrats began building thousands of units of public housing in the 1950s.  What happened is that poor blacks from the South came flooding into Chicago to take advantage of the welfare freebies.  Fifty years later, the city is still dealing with the fallout from their massive welfare projects, chiefly in the form of black crime and violence.

Two electric and hybrid car companies largely owned by wealthy contributors to the Democratic Party have received nearly a billion dollars in U.S. government loans.

Tesla Motors received a $465 million government loan to make high-end electric cars.  This week, Fisker Automotive, Inc., received a $529 million government loan to help build a hybrid car in Finland.  Average people could never afford these cars.

Tesla was co-founded by Elon Musk, a big money DFL donor who made a fortune starting PayPal.  Checking the contribution records at fec.gov, I see that the founders of Tesla and most of the car company’s investors are Democratic Party contributors with contributions to many Democrats, including President Barack Obama.  I did not see hardly any contributions to Republicans.

About Fisker, from the article:

WSJ Article

The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla, like Fisker, is a California startup focusing on high-end hybrids, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns.

Fisker’s top investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a veteran Silicon Valley venture-capital firm of which (Al) Gore is a partner. Employees of KPCB have donated more than $2.2 million to political campaigns, mostly for Democrats, including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign contributions.

There you have it:  more pay-for-play politics from the Democratic Party.  It’s bad enough that Democrat contributors are getting massive loans to build cars that are not yet proven in the marketplace — and may fail — but they are getting loans to build cars that nobody but the rich can afford to buy.  The Tesla sells for over $100,000 and the Fisker is expected to be priced at $89,000.

If this isn’t an example of the Democratic Party using taxpayer money to reward rich political contributors then I don’t know what is.  And Al Gore stands to make even more money as he is a partner of the venture capital firm that co-owns Fisker Automotive.

Link to Al Gore’s page at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

What’s worse is that these cars aren’t even being built in America.  Tesla makes most of its cars in Europe and it appears that Fisker will, too.  Democrats are using taxpayer money to make loans to companies that won’t even use American labor.