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To: mtnwmn

“REWARDING STATE IRRESPONSIBILITY

One of the ugliest aspects of the stimulus package is a bailout for spendthrift state legislatures. Remember the old fable about the ant and the grasshopper? In Aesop’s version, the happy-go-lucky grasshopper realizes the error of his ways when winter comes and he goes hungry while the industrious ant lives on his stores. In Obama’s version, the federal government levies a tax on the ant and redistributes his wealth to the party-hearty grasshopper, who just happens to belong to a government-employees’ union.”

Almost all of our States have their hands out to some extent or the other. Check yours here:

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state


3 posted on 02/06/2009 6:41:01 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I see many projects with "replaces contractor/contractor services".

It seems the stimulus package will put a lot of folks OUT OF A JOB.
10 posted on 02/06/2009 6:56:34 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This is most enlightening! I live in AL:

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/AL


16 posted on 02/06/2009 7:24:41 AM PST by mtnwmn ( Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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