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"

The sound of Evil

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, explained on Sunday (1/25) how funding hundreds of millions of dollars for family planning (aka abortion planning and execution and condom hand-outs) is, not only a proper role for government but, a compelling and urgent part of the stimulus package. To suggest that Madam Speaker, behind only the Vice President in the succession to the presidency (scared yet?), was disingenuous or somehow uniformed about this incredibly offensive and inappropriate step (each of us will have another buck taken out of our wallets to pay for this)is giving her a free pass, one she has not earned. Click on the You Tube below and listen to the sound of evil.




Some priceless Pelosinomics:

Well, the family-planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now, and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those—one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.

We have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. What the economists have told us from right to left: There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut.



Check-out the outrage across our country with the links below. I plan on asking my Congressman if he agrees with Speaker Pelosi's priorities.

Also, given the urgency with which Madam Speaker has said we need to address that portion of the economic crisis that finds itself in not having enough condoms to hand out, I intend, and I invite all patrons of Hugh Aktson's Diner to send Madam Speaker a condom in the mail. Perhaps an outpouring of support will provide the prophylactic timulus our economy needs. Madam's address is:

Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515

If, instead you would like to send Madam Pelosi an email detailing your outrage at her purposeful wasting of taxpayer money by using the immediate crisis as an excuse to advance her far-Left agenda, then click here. No free passes. Hold her accountable.


Pelosi: Free Condoms And Food Stamps Better for Economy than Food Stamps

Capital Commerce by James Pethokoukis: Pelosi: Contraception is Good Stimulus for the Economy

Fox News Blogs by Andrea Tantaros: Show me the Economist Who Says We're in a Crisis Because of a Birth Control Shortage