Red States recieve the most Federal Money. Jindle is 2nd, and Palin is 3rd

[TWiley]

Belly up to the trough. Data is from CNN / Rick Sanchez

The most vocal Republican Governors in criticizing the “Pork” in Mr. Obama’s stimulus package are also the greatest beneficiaries of Federal spending. For each Federal tax dollar sent to Washington, these states receive:

Mississippi $2.02
Louisiana $1.85
Alaska $1.83
South Carolina $1.35
Idaho $1.19
Texas $0.97

I wish that I could invest a dollar and get $2.02 in return. Will the GOP’s hypocrisy never end? I have a feeling that they have just begun to defile themselves.

[WI_DEM]

1. Why does Alaska get so much?

[TWiley]

3. I am not sure why they get what they do.

[karynnj]

12. These numbers may reflect past budgets

If so - Representative Young and Senator Stevens is why.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Because it costs what it costs to build roads, etc.

or whatever the federal money is directed towards, but there are fewer of us to divide into it, so the per capita looks really high.

For example, say a highway repair is going to cost $10 million. Divide that by 660,000 Alaskans, you get $15.15 per Alaskan. Divide it by 20 million New Yrokers or whatever, and it's only $.50.

It's not like Uncle Sam is just handing us all wads of cash up here.

[TWiley]

18. Senator McCaskill (D) Missouri said it was because Ted Stevens

Senator McCaskill (D) Missouri said it was because Ted Stevens was a big shot on the appropriations committee

[Captain Hilts]

22. Yes and no. It's more complicated than that. For one, defense spending...

has been taken out of the North and moved south, for one.

[flor de jasmim]

2. Isn't transparency great--we get to see the hypocrisy immediately!

[TWiley]

5. A public cry for bobby to return excess money to Washington would be fun.

[progressoid]

28. We just have to get it out to the masses.

I've used these stats before to knock down some RW talking points.

[uppityperson]

4. Do you have a link, would be interesting to see all the states. Thanks. nt

[TWiley]

6. This is a breaking story on CNN news right now

Rick Sanchez has a Democratic Senator on talking about it. The story was called "belly up to the trough" I will post something as soon as it is available.

[uppityperson]

9. Thank you. I'd like to get $2 back for every $1 I was taxed also.

Thank you.

[stillcool]

15. here's some..

http://dpc.senate.gov/dpc-new.cfm?doc_name=fs-111-1-24
http://www.propublica.org/article/state-by-state-breakdown-of-the-economic-stimulus-plan-090217
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state

and Recovery.gov has loads of info, but I haven't seen a breakdown by State.
http://www.recovery.gov/

[Captain Hilts]

19. Here's a link to a list of the Welfare States:

http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm

[depakid]

7. If it were up to me- it would be the other way around

Let those states wallow in poverty. Maybe eventually the people would wake up and stop sending fundamentalists and Republican ideologues to Washington to screw everybody else over.

[T Wolf]

Exactly. If things are to change, there need to be consequences for bad behavior.

And voting for a puke is really bad behavior.

But, as long as they continue to suck resources from the working Blue states, they will continue to be parasites.

[Kalyke]

23. Working Blue states?

You don't think we work here in the Red Reservation?

Looks to me like a blue state has the highest unemployment (Michigan) and a red state (Wyoming) has the lowest.

Looks like everyone is hurting all over.

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/state_unemployment/

[Kalyke]

16. So my kids are supposed to suffer - and the kids of the 43 percent of

us Dems who didn't vote for "fundamentalists" in, say, Tennessee, are supposed to suffer so you can ride your high horse?

Some progressive. :eyes:

My opinion is that we point out this hypocrisy to the voters - not starve them to death.

[depakid]

24. Sorry- but that's how it ought to be done

It's insane to reward states whose representatives oppose the plans with the highest returns. That's the opposite of a carrot and stick approach.

[Thothmes]

30. That seems to be the way some folks on this forum would like it

to happen. Think its rather Freeperish myself. Those that can afford to pay the taxes provide services for those that cannot. That is the one of the guiding principles of the Progressive movement JMO.

[KansDem]

8. I'd like to see CorpMedia ask Jindal or Palin about this the next time they go "Norquistic" on us

But, I won't hold my breath...

[billyoc]

10. Redbeats.

:rofl:

[Captain Hilts]

21. Oh, I like that....nt

[TWiley]

25. How about "illegal Americans" for the tax dodging swiss accounts?

as opposed to "illegal immagrants"

[Thickasabrick]

29. OMG.....perfect....that is hugh!!! Well done eom

[TWiley]

11. Senator McCaskill (D) Missouri is breaking the story.

She said "people who live in glass houses are having boulders rain down on them"

The leader of the Republican Party is taking twice as much as the leader of the Democatic party.

[radfringe]

14. earmarks who gets what

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5176777#5177200

[Captain Hilts]

17. Here's a handy table of the Welfare States:

http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm

[TWiley]

20. Now, that IS a handy table ..... Great Post !

[KamaAina]

26. The top four: Barbour, Jindal, Palin, Sanford

stimulus-haters all. :eyes:

I'd also like to see that figure broken out for greater NOLA versus the rest of the Gret Stet of Looziana.

[TWiley]

27. A handy table is right here:

http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm

Did you know that the Senate Leader of the Republican Party got twice as many earmarks as the Senate Leader of the Dems?

[Rage for Order]

31. Have you been to the MS Gulf Coast or Southern Louisiana?

Hurricane Katrina washed ashore 3 1/2 years ago, but if you were to drive down Hwy 90 in Mississippi you would think it had been less than one year ago. Same thing with many parts of southern Louisiana - the effects of both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are still highly visible.

And this doesn't even include the legacy of poverty as a result of the treatment of the deep south by the federal government after the Civil War.

[TWiley]

32. Well, I do not oppose helping them, I just oppose the hipocricy.

Bloviating governors criticizing everyone else while taking more than anyone else. Don't you find that annoying?

[blue_onyx]

33. Have you been to Detroit?

Areas of Detroit look just as bad as the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. It's fine to help areas that need it but the assistance is not fairly distributed. The states that receive more federal money than they send to the government are almost all red states. The states the pay more in federal taxes than they receive are almost all blue states. Blue states need the money just as much as red states.