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Obama’s Weatherization Assistance Program Yet Another Example of Fraud and Abuse

By Ashton Ellis
Wednesday, June 09 2010

Like one of the ethically challenged aluminum siding salesmen in Barry Levinson’s film, Tin Men, the Obama Administration is desperately trying to spin its green technology spending spree as anything other than what it is: a misleading, expensive exercise in self-enrichment. The latest example comes from the Department of Energy’s inaptly named “Weatherization Assistance Program” (WAP). For starters, it would be logical to reason that a program called “weatherization assistance” would be necessarily limited to helping people protect against extreme…

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