Read from Gateway Pundit:
Shocker!... BILLIONS In Stimulus Aid Went to Obama Supporting Counties
“Shocker!... DC's Alinskyite Regime Spreads Spoils Among Supporters.
Billions of dollars in federal aid has gone to those counties that supported Dear Leader Obama in the last election.
Obama Supporting Counties-- $69 per person
McCain Supporting Counties-- $34 per person
2008 Election By County (Washington Post)
USA Today reported:
‘Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year's presidential election.
That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration's massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally. Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.
"There's no politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says.
Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, a USA TODAY analysis of government disclosure and accounting records shows. That money includes aid to repair military bases, improve public housing and help students pay for college.
The reports show the 872 counties that supported Obama received about $69 per person, on average. The 2,234 that supported McCain received about $34.’
More... $18 million Recovery.gov contract goes to Hoyer contributors to redesign a website!”
2 comments:
Huh... guess it sucks to lose.
When the Democrats win, the spoils go to the people who voted them in.
When Republicans win (a thing of the past) the spoils don't go to the voters, but to the Halliburtons. And you idiots don't even realize it!
QUIT WHINING!
John Boehner was wrong about Ohio stimulus spending
by Joan Mazzolini/Plain Dealer Reporter
Monday July 06, 2009, 5:43 PM
WASHINGTON — When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.
The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.
Boehner told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that in Ohio, "the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago," as part of the economic recovery package, "there hasn't been a contract let, to my knowledge."
Karl Frisch, senior fellow for Media Matters, a media watchdog group that monitors news reports, said it seemed that Boehner, a Republician from West Chester in southwestern Ohio, might want to be more aware of what's going on in his home state.
Frisch said he also wanted Wallace to have some basic facts on the stimulus spending in Ohio if he's going to interview Boehner on the topic.
"This is something pretty basic," said Karl Frisch, senior fellow at Media Matters. "If you're going to interview someone on stimulus funding, you should know something about it." Media Matters, a nonprofit "progressive research and information center," monitors daily newspapers, Sunday news talk shows, and other media outlets looking for and correcting conservative misinformation.
The aim is to put the spotlight on the media to smarten up to stop politicians from "twisting the facts to serve their own talking points," Frisch said.
Boehner spokeswoman Jessica Towhey did not return phone calls. Wallace did not respond to an email.
An ODOT spokesman called Boehner's statement "disapppointing."
And Scott Varner noted that ODOT had just OK'd six more stimulus road projects which will cost about $43 million.
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2009/07/john_boehner_was_wrong_about_o.html
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