We have terrorists boarding airplanes with explosives in their underwear, and now we learn that more stimulus money is going to non existent areas. And these people want to run our healthcare?

OKLAHOMA CITY – A non-existent ZIP code in Oklahoma received nearly $12 million in stimulus funds under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

According to Recovery.gov, 74443 received $11.9 million. But the United States Postal Service has no record of it.

It’s a problem nationwide. Earl Glynn, reporter for Kansas Watchdog in Overland Park, Kan., compiled more than $375 million in 170 ZIP codes that do not exist. This includes stimulus funds designed for grants, loans, and government contracts.

In Oklahoma, information compiled by Kansas Watchdog and by Bill McMorris at Watchdog.org show that a St. Louis, Mo.-based company, Hartman-Walsh Painting Company, received stimulus funds for “rehabilitation and painting gates (at) Fort Gibson Dam” east of Tahlequah on the Wagoner-Cherokee county line. It also notes that a dam in Kansas is to be painted as well.

The nearest community, Okay, Okla., has a ZIP code of 74446. The nearby town of Fort Gibson has a ZIP code of 74434.

The dam project has not proceeded because “bonds submitted, waiting for notice to proceed.” Read more…