Stimulus Package - Who Gets What

The Wall Street Journal featured a neat little gizmo in its on-line edition today (1/28) that showed the distribution by state of the planned pork in the gazillion dollar "stimulus" package being voted on today.

"Winners" and "Losers" (we're all losers if we allow the Dems to get away with this robbery) by major category (in terms of per capita spending):

Aide to states: Highest Utah ($225.64 per capita) Lowest Florida ($193.51 per capita)

School and College Modernization: Highest DC ($118.49 per capita) Lowest Nevada ($43.59) per capita

Job Training: Highest Michigan ($20.07 per capita) Lowest Virginia ($5.06 per capita)

Transportation / Infrastructure: Highest DC ($634.88 per capita) Lowest N. Carolina ($108.02 per capita)

Other tidbits from this data...

$15.2 Billion to California; $10.1 Billion to Texas; 0.5 Billion to New Hampshire; $6.6 Billion to Florida...

Read more here...

Also, if your stomach isn't already turning, read the Wall Street Journal's Review & Outlook piece this morning about what is contained, in what it described as "A 40-Year Wish List"