AUSTIN - Texas has spent $3.7 million to weatherize just 47 homes through December under a program set up by Congress a year ago in economic stimulus legislation. This amounts to a taxpayer cost of $78,000 per home. A little more than $200,000 paid for materials and labor to retrofit the homes, an official said. The remaining $3.5 million was used to grow the state's housing agency so it can attempt to make as many as 56,000 low-income homes more energy-efficient by March 2012. Top officials for the Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the administrator for the state's Weatherization Assistance Program, insist that with the bureaucratic machinery finally in place thousands of homes will be weatherized this year. Indeed, officials say hundreds more homes were improved in January. Executive Director Michael Gerber has pledged that all the money allotted to Texas will be spent and accounted for. This article was posted on the nationalreview.com website written by Kathryn Lopez. Hmmmm lets put a pencil to this. If they spent $3.7 million to weatherize 47 homes then how much would it cost to weatherize a total of 56,000 homes at $78,000 for each home? It would cost $43,680,000.00! How could you have the remaining $3.5 million, pay for a bill of over $43 million? I am not an accountant but this isn’t right. Well let’s look at it another way. The total that Texas has to do this project is $7.2 million to refurbish a total of 56,000 homes. That is $128.57 per house to weatherize it. That doesn’t add up either because the cost per home was $78,000.00! OH WELL ANOTHER GOVERNMENT PROJECT.