AP: GOP Shifted Billions to Districts

AP | 8-05-02 | David Pace

[My Favorite Headache]

CNN is gonna have a field day with this

[OldFriend]

I think this is all wonderful news!!!!

[InvisibleChurch]

produced a seismic shift in federal spending, moving tens of billions of dollars from Democratic to GOP districts,

yeah, so?

[My Favorite Headache]

:)GOP bump...ya know the right wing nuts?

[Judith Anne]

I have to agree--this is terrific news. Do I have a problem with this? No. Should Republicans apologize? HELL no. ;-D

[Free the USA]

AP Analysis: Billions in federal spending shifted to GOP districts after 1994 House takeover

[Dog Gone]

I've got an idea. Let's spend NONE in Democrat districts for awhile. It'll still be a generation before we catch up, and maybe longer if Robert Byrd doesn't croak soon.

[KSCITYBOY]

HEY AP - THEY MOVED IT FROM THE DEMOCRATS AREAS BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS WERE KEEPING THE MONEY AWAY FROM THE REPUBLICAN DISTRICTS FOR YEARS & YEARS

[SEGUET]

Funny thing about omelets - turn them over and they brown on the other side

[KSCITYBOY]

The Headline should read - For years the Democrats made sure that the governments spending was in areas that voted for them. This monopoly of federal funds was broken up in 1994.

[SEGUET]

But then again - I generally turn my omelets over 3 times - huh

[austingirl]

I can't imagine that this amounts to a drop in the bucket compared to the trillions spent on welfare in the inner cities which are Demoncrap areas. Reality check, AP?

[Sloth]

I love the AP's title -- makes it sound like money-laundering or Enronesque fuzzy math.

[Sloth]

Myrthil, 38, of Brockton, Mass., is one of thousands of legal immigrants who don't qualify for food stamps because of changes Congress made in 1997. He can obtain food stamps only for his 3-month-old baby, who automatically became a U.S. citizen when she was born stateside. ``I have family, four brothers over here, a sister, when I need some food they can give me some food,'' he said.

Imagine that -- people choosing to provide for their own families, instead of forcing taxpayers to do it. What a novel idea.

[JamesWilson]

When Democrats last controlled the House and wrote the 1995 budget, the average Democratic district got $35 million more than the average GOP district. By 2001, average federal spending in Republican districts was $612 million more than in Democratic districts.

This is a great example of Media Bias. The figures are for the average Democrat distirct compared to all Republican distircts. The average Republican district advantage works out to less than $3 million. In other words, the Democrats abused the system more than 10 times as much as the Republicans - $35 to $3 million per district.

The numbers also fail to account for inflation. With inflation, the Democrats were far more abusive than the 10 to 1 ratio.

[AntiGuv]

So what?! Congresspeople always steer money to their districts. More GOP Congresspeople = more money in GOP districts... What's the news here?? Unless they figure out a way to do away with pork, this is par for the course. Anyhow, the GOP areas probably needed equalized funding after being deprived for so many years by the Dem congresses.

[varon]

I've got an idea. Let's spend NONE in Democrat districts for awhile.

I've got a better idea. Let's spend NONE AT ALL in any districts, period. Let's shut these political scams down. Let's shift the War on Drugs to War on Politicians ;-)

[RightWhale]

$612 million more in federal spending last year for congressional districts represented by Republicans than for those represented by Democrats

Washington sneezes bigger than this.

[KC_Conspirator]

Call me cruel, but I have no complaints about starving non-citizens. First, they are here illegally so they can get out of my country and two, where in the hell do they get off expecting that US taxpayers need to feed them? I am glad that the GOP moved money from those leeching districts.

[eureka!]

Looks like the presstitutes don't care for the generic polls. ;^)