Syracuse.com reports that Vice President Joseph Biden, Jr., in charge of managing the economic stimulus money, is now touting 170 projects that have been stopped or changed to prevent waste.

One such project was a $120,000 brochure update for the Lake Onondaga clean up project.

In the case of Onondaga Lake, Biden’s report said, “A project to print pamphlets for a Lake Onondaga restoration project was modified from printing paper pamphlets to publishing the information online.”

Biden spared the president the details: The Army Corps of Engineers had planned to spend $120,000 to update and reprint a color pamphlet from 2001 about the lake cleanup project. It cost $13,684 to produce 15,000 printed copies in 2001.

The Vice President graduated from Syracuse University’s Law School, and has been active in the area ever since. He has made at least two visits in his time as Vice President, and it is not surprising that he’d use an anecdote showcasing the region to show some positives of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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