[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13394]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           EDIBLE ROAD SIGNS

  (Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. GINNY BROWN-WAITE of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to point 
out the obvious: You cannot feed road signs to your kids. They are made 
of aluminum, degreasing agents, and reflective film. They don't taste 
good. In fact, you can't even pay the rent with road signs because 
landlords prefer checks.
  That's why Americans are so confused about the Obama administration 
and why they are spending tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money 
on road signs, touting the success of the stimulus. I should have said 
the so-called ``success'' of the stimulus.
  President Obama assured the American people that he would not waste 
the stimulus money. In fact, he even said that he would not waste one 
single nickel and that he would make famous anyone who wasted the 
money. Well, I guess I'm making the President famous then because these 
signs are the most obscenely wasteful and gratuitous things that we 
have seen out of him yet.
  There is a reason why the majority has lost all credibility with the 
American people, and there is a reason you haven't created any jobs. 
That reason is posted on the sides of our roads.

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