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Where is our state's "stimulus" money going?
Posted Tuesday, November 17, at 4:33 PM
According to www.recovery.gov it's been going to congressional districts that don't even exist.
I'm not even going to get into the national implications of this, let's stick to just our state. Tennessee has nine congressional districts. They are, appropriately labeled one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. According to www.recovery.gov "the U.S. government's official website providing easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allows for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse.", they have sent money to those districts as well as districts 00, 11, 13, 14, 29, 32, and 47. Can anybody explain to me where the 28 jobs that were created in these imaginary districts are? Are real people performing these jobs or are these fairies, nymphs, gnomes, and leprechauns that were hired at the expense of the taxpayers? Good thing we had that whole stimulus thing or these folks (or mythical creatures) wouldn't have jobs. At least we got 102.1 jobs in the 6th district. Hmm...who's doing the ten percent of a job? That one must be a federal government job.
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Where was the Times-Gazette? There's an election in three weeks. There are currently 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and 1 "Carter County Republican" (I'm still not sure what that's supposed to mean) in the Tennessee House of Representatives. This election will decide whether the Republicans expand, however slightly, their majority or if the Democrats will even it up, or if Tennessee will elect its only Constitutional Party Representative...
Constitution Day Two hundred and twenty-two years ago today a band of thirty-nine men that were fed up with their overbearing government and had taken charge of themselves attached their signatures to the document that, to this day, is the foundation of our government. Today is Constitution Day, please take a moment to consider that the rights that we enjoy, are due to this document...
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Barack Obama...JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN Barack Obama promised during his campaign that he was going to make a "net spending cut" in the federal government: -Increased spending by over $1,000,000,000,000 over the next decade -Additional $250,000,000,000 for another financial bailout -President Bush expanded the federal budget by $700,000,000,000.....President Obama is adding an ADDITIONAL $1,000,000,000,000 to it. How is that "CHANGE"? Well, it's change alright, but it's change in the same direction that we were headed anyway...
Two Tea Parties...one GREAT DAY in Tennessee Today I had the privilege...correction, the RIGHT...to attend two of today's Tax Day Tea Parties in Tennessee. First we went to Nashville to attend the one at Legislative Plaza. This one had an estimated 10,000 people attending. This was the first "protest" that I had attended...as a protester. ...
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