You dont say! Never would of imagined the corrupt contemtible demoncrats would be fleecing the taxpayer for their own disgusting political apparatus.

PUKE!!!

Thats [ contemptible ] in every sense of the word. Hard to spell check when your pissed off.

I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED I tell you! If all of Barry's plans come to pass, there will come a time when the American public would look forward to seeing all those bastards before a firing squad. Impeachment would not be enough.

I held my RomCo "Surprise Meter" up to the news article...it didn't even register!!

Mind you, since Obama ascended to the throne, I've been re-calibrating it daily to increase it's sensitivity...and it STILL wouldn't register!!

On a smaller scale, there's a fellow employee here who is always begging me for $10 or $20 to get her through to next payday. Today, for the first time, I had to say no.

From the article:

The imbalance didn't start with the stimulus. From 2005 through 2007, the counties that later voted for Obama collected about 50% more government aid than those that supported McCain, according to spending reports from the U.S. Census Bureau. USA TODAY's review did not include Alaska, which does not report its election results by county.

Excellent misleading! Awesome work by USA Today and then Wizbang.

jp2, you actually helped prove the point. . these locations voted for more largesse from the public treasury, and voted Democrat of course.

So much for the myth that Red locales receive more government aid, glad to see you've owned up to that one.

IJHYYA

jp2 doesn't see the irony. The people on the dole vote for those who will keep them on the dole.

I would think jp2 was trying to put the blame on Dubya for those 2005-2007 years. It's never to late to blame ol' George W. but it sure is pathetic.

"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."

These same areas "regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts" and did so during the Bush White House when Congress was controlled by Republicans.

Nothing has changed. Those areas continue to see the most aid now, just as they did during the Bush administration.

Was that too simple? Does the truth not fit into the culture war waged by the right?

"the Obama administration wants to redesign 35% of gross domestic product from the center."

So in the first year of Obama we will become a 35% Communist country. Then they'll take a break and start acting somewhat in America's best interst next year, or at least appear to do so since it's an election year.

But God help us if the leftists hold power in 2010. 2011 will see us going 70% or more Communist at which point it will be impossible to stop the slide to total Communism short of a second America Revolution.

There's little left to do but pray that the ignorant and information retarded wake up and start paying attention before November 2010, and just in case they don't stock up on weapons and ammunition.

"Was that too simple? Does the truth not fit into the culture war waged by the right?"

Gee, maybe it was so simple you didn't realize you were copying and pasting what was right there for all of us to read. I gotta tell ya, the part where it said, "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," was a dead giveaway for me.

Pimps give de hoes de franchise. Hoes pay de pimp back. Jes' like MackyDonald do, fer shizzle.

Would you have made the same comment if the President was John Edwards or Hillary Clinton, Trajan?

Scandal!

So let me make sure I follow this logic: Stimulus is supposed to help areas of the country most effected by downturns and job losses. Job losses tend to focus around areas that are inherently more distressed. Inherently distressed Americans voted for Obama over McCain.

Ergo, Obama is creating scandal and is paying back his voters?

That's some good logic...

Should we be surprised by Obama's shredding of the Constitution or his thugocracy? What is depressing are his lemmings. Who could ever imagine so many people would embrace Marxism so willingly?

Our city is in a shitstorm of a mess. Our mayor has his hand out begging for stimulus money because city officials have done a piss poor job of managing what they have.

Charlie Crist, in his infinite non-wisdom, decided that Floridians needed a property tax break, and there it was as a referendum on the last ballot; a doubling of the homestead exemption. That's when the law of unintended consequences reared its ugly head. And everybody thought they were going to save money so it passed. Then cities across the state decided to scramble to find more ways to charge fees to make up for the shortfall. Our homestead exemption was doubled and I got a whopping $125.00 in savings for the year. BUT! I also got a new bill in the mail from the city amounting to a new garbage fee and storm water run-off fee. The new bill was $120.00 a year.

The clincher is that every home in Jacksonville gets this new bill. Even those homes whose owners rent their property and are not eligible for the exemption. One would think the city would be happy with the new bonus.

No.

The city suddenly has a $70 million budget shortfall. This, on top of a new 1 penny sales tax increase that began 9 years ago to fund their "Better Jacksonville Plan". This plan was, among other things, supposed to fund a new courthouse. The first round of estimates for the courthouse was (we were told at the onset) was about $170 million. Now it's $350 million and 9 years later they haven't even broken ground yet.

But that hasn't stopped them. This sudden new "budget shortfall" has them scrambling for MORE money. Now they're considering a local income tax and/or a 14% increase in property taxes.

My husband and I are scrambling to hasten our retirement. I'm getting out of the city. In fact, we're likely to leave Florida altogether. I've had it. I'm tired of being pecked to death by ducks. Fees for this, fees for that and the constant whining by city council members and officials that they "just don't have enough money", and the tired old fear mongering that, "We'll have to cut funds for police and fire protection!"

As far as I'm concerned, Wyoming is sounding good.

F*ck it, why not pack up and haul ass to the Cayman Islands, Oyster? If paying taxes and fees is the Worst Thing Ever, then isn't it obvious that you don't belong in contemporary North American/European society?

Whoa there canuckle-head.
At least down here in Canada's hat stand, citizens are allowed to have a say in how things are done. This includes the right to complain. And the right to move.
Inequitable taxes is a large part of why we had a revolution here a couple of centuries ago.
But why bother... I'm talking to a guy that thinks Smith supported government welfare societies...

"then isn't it obvious that you don't belong in contemporary North American/European society?"

There is nothing contemporary about taxation without representation. It's as old and rusty as those thumbscrews from the dark ages.

"Job losses tend to focus around areas that are inherently more distressed. Inherently distressed Americans voted for Obama over McCain."

And it's just coincidental that the economically distressed areas happen to have a preponderance of long-term Democratic state and city administrations, isn't it?

hyper - "then isn't it obvious that you don't belong in contemporary North American/European society?"

Um, didn't you forget Cannuckville?

For most of us I suspect we have no desire to live in the faux-utopia either.

Only paying back his most loyal bootlickers