The news story:
Counties suffering the most from job losses stand to receive the least help from President Barack Obama’s plan to spend billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Although the intent of the money is to put people back to work, AP’s review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide reveals that states are planning to spend the stimulus in communities where jobless rates are already lower.
One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn’t receiving any road money despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and college community of Riley County, Kan., with its 3.4 percent unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway, improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.
Altogether, the government is set to spend 50 percent more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with the highest.
The AP reviewed $18.9 billion in projects, the most complete picture available of where states plan to spend the first wave of highway money. The projects account for about half of the $38 billion set aside for states and local governments to spend on roads, bridges and infrastructure in the stimulus plan.
Because government can’t get it right – its just not possible. You see, where the money is going to get spent is where the pull is the strongest…and poor districts just don’t have a lot of pull, ya dig? Even supposing that stimulus would improve the economy (it won’t, but for the sake of argument…), the plain fact of the matter is that like all government expenditures it will give an overwhelming amount of its aid to people who don’t need it. Who in heck needs a restored historic farm house? It ain’t some single mom who just had her hours cut. You think affirmative action actually helps poor, black people? What rock have you been living under?
Its a gigantic boondoggle passed on the run by corrupt, liberal Democrats who only care about one thing – getting re-elected…and you don’t get re-elected by helping poor people. Don’t you liberals understand that, at all? The only thing helping poor people gets you is that immense feeling of love and satisfaction…heck, do it enough and you might wind up a Saint with Our Lord saying, “well done, good and faithful servant”…and just what use is that at election time? To get re-elected – under liberalism, especially – you need to grease the wheels. You need to take care of certain people. Some of your backers need “walking around money”, don’t you know? Every penny spent actually helping the poor is a penny less spent helping you get re-elected…
Figure it out, liberals – you’re being scammed. You think your side is all about goodness, sweetness and light. Its not – its a disgusting, nauseating thing scurrying around on slimy legs…
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