Your Dollars at Work

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Energy Department has spent only $2.1 billion of its $37 billion in "stimulus" funds.

If it is that hard to spend the money quickly, how about returning the rest to the Treasury and reducing the deficit by $35 billion? Moreover, with the economy showing signs of recovery, what is the rationale for spending this money, which apparently is so difficult to spend anyway?

This is just more evidence that the money is really about paying for various pet causes of the left, with "stimulus" as the excuse for getting it passed.