Check Out Your State's Porkulus Loot!

[Gingersnap]

Click on the link to see how many biodegradable, gender-neutral, culturally-sensitive doorknobs are coming to your state:Stimulus Watch. (http://www.stimuluswatch.org/)

[Rebel Yell]

Get a load of this.

GA gets: $2,622,606,973


GA: by region

North GA

Atlanta: $1,882,706,520

Alpharetta: $61,429,500

Acworth: $ 3,950,000

Athens: $82,741,690

College Park: $30,210,000

Conyers: $44,410,000

Marietta: $ 8,344,059

Tota:l $2,113,791,769

Coastal GA

Savannah: $349,686,554

Hinesville: $14,050,000

Total: $363,736,554


South GA $0,000,000


Total: $0,000,000

[noonwitch]

I live in the 3rd largest city in Michigan, and we are not getting a dime. Detroit, Grand Rapids, Dearborn, etc, are all getting money.

Warren does have a history of refusing federal money. We have no section 8 program and no government housing. Even though the initial reasons for this were racist, it has worked out well for the city in other ways, like preventing eyesore projects and the building of too many aparment buildings.

Detroit is hoping for a commuter train system. They needed it 30 years ago-Carter gave then mayor Coleman Young a fortune for it, he dicked around with the money for a decadeand ended up building The Detroit People Mover, an elevated train that goes around downtown only (inflation). When it was built, it didn't even connect to Tiger Stadium, although it connects to the new stadia.

I'm not sure why it took so long, though-when I first moved to the city in 1989, they didn't have cable, because Coleman was looking for a black-owned company. When he finally found one, they delivered a poor quality of service. It took ComCast a couple of years to get all the kinks out of the system once they bought it out (under the good mayor of the 90s, Dennis Archer). I suspect that Coleman had similar motives with the train system, but unlike cable tv, he couldn't find a railroad contractor that was black-owned.

[patriot45]

This was amusing!


The total of cost of all the projects submitted by Puerto Rico is $22,093,054,016

[Zeus]

My little burg of a hometown didn't get anything but Down the highway Killeen stands to make a killing. Funding for the highway expansion between Copperas Cove and Harker Heights they been working on for about 3 yrs now. Been in the works for a bypass built around Copperas Cove for about 20 yrs and they haven't moved a shovel of dirt yet. Maybe in another 20 yrs they will get around to it.

[Eilise]

No surprise here - my state (Illinois) is asking for money for more than 1000 projects. Some of it's worthwhile, like the I-74 Mississippi River bridge replacement between Iowa and Illinois. That bridge gets a lot of interstate traffic, and it's old and in serious need of replacement, but they have it overpriced at almost a billion dollars.

But a lot of the Illinois projects are just stupid or stuff that's clearly the responsibility of local governments. And with the way our state is run, the silly stuff will get funded, while the bridge collapses into the river.

[Celtic Rose]

California has almost 2000 projects, with a totals cost of $23,194,447,831. I saw a lot of road and highway work. Since when is the Fed. Governments responsibility to fix our roads :cool:

[linda22003]

Virginia: mostly for downstate, of course. :rolleyes:

[djones520]

Thank you for this link. There is some really good information here.

[PoliCon]

notice how the pork is high in key swing states such as Ohio? This is a clear attempt to buy votes. lol FDR did the same thing with his new deal programs. He didn't spend money in the hardest hit states like New York which were already firmly in the dems camp - he spent money where it would buy him the most votes!

[PoliCon]

This was amusing!
you seem to have a very SICK sense of humor. This pissed me right off. Makes me wanna jam a cattle prod up the ass of anyone who votes for it. :mad:

[patriot45]

you seem to have a very SICK sense of humor. This pissed me right off. Makes me wanna jam a cattle prod up the ass of anyone who votes for it. :mad:

Calm down, its Amusing in a sick way. Even PR is getting its mitts in. I hope it don't pass.

[tacitus]

Peoples Republic of Boulder and Colo Springs getting mucho $$$. My city, not a thin dime. INteresting since they are both at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

[PoliCon]

Calm down, its Amusing in a sick way. Even PR is getting its mitts in. I hope it don't pass.

oh it's gonna pass because the ubertool Arlen - I never met a democrat who's ass I did not want to lick - Spector is going to vote for it. If I didn't already HATE philly - he'd be enough of a reason to want to sell that shithole to new jearsey. :mad::mad::mad:

[AHeneen]

I'm furious...Florida has the second highest # of most projects....but it seems like ~90% are in South Florida!! Of course that's where all the Dems are in this state, so no surprise, but it still infuriates me that so many resources are going south...mostly for (what seems like) a transportation system (whatever "Orange line" is, it's getting many tens of billions). I haven't gotten around to reading all the projects, but there are only 5 in my county (of 600k, a project/pop. ration would mean we should have 58 projects.
What disturbs me the most, however, is that we have a Republican representative and one Rep. senator (the other is born in/from Miami)...so how did that get in there? I hope it's not some scrupulous Congressman paying back a donor. (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/07/washington/07earmark.html?_r=1)

Meanwhile, Miami is getting $4.3 BILLION for the Orange line of their monorail system (Phase 1 (http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/view/11886), 2 (http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/view/11888), 3 (http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/view/11889)). Divided by 24.4mi, that's $176 million PER MILE.

[PoliCon]

I'm furious...Florida has by FAR the most projects....
California (1971 projects)
Florida (1752 projects)
Texas (1240 projects)
Illinois (1031 projects)
Ohio (847 projects)
Michigan (782 projects)
Arizona (743 projects)
Indiana (713 projects)
Mississippi (552 projects)
Kentucky (524 projects)

All States that are some how in play electorally.


Good solid loyal Democratic states -
West Virginia (1 projects)
Maryland (54 projects)
Vermont (61 projects)

getting passed over. It's the same tactic FDR used with his application of New Deal monies. He used it most where it would buy him the most votes.

[SaintLouieWoman]

Illinois obviously got way more than Missouri----but we remained a red state in the presidential election. City of St Louis and KC got the majority. St Louis County isn't even listed (where we live). The money was all doled out to the absolutely dem areas.

Funny thing, too, so many millions are being dumped into the city's school buildings. The district is an absolute mess, taken over by the state, declining enrollment and most of the schools closing. Why are they paying to renovate buildings that will close? Aaarrrgh!

Another thing, saw some individual homes on various city streets with price tags around $225,000. Those houses are in an area where they'd probably sell for $60k tops. What in the world is going on with this?

[djones520]

Illinois obviously got way more than Missouri----but we remained a red state in the presidential election. City of St Louis and KC got the majority. St Louis County isn't even listed (where we live). The money was all doled out to the absolutely dem areas.

Funny thing, too, so many millions are being dumped into the city's school buildings. The district is an absolute mess, taken over by the state, declining enrollment and most of the schools closing. Why are they paying to renovate buildings that will close? Aaarrrgh!

Another thing, saw some individual homes on various city streets with price tags around $225,000. Those houses are in an area where they'd probably sell for $60k tops. What in the world is going on with this?

Did you catch the metro thing? Something that was actually voted down by the citizens of the city was snuck into the pork bill.

[AHeneen]

I'm gonna love to see how this website unfolds:

http://recovery.gov

http://recovery.gov/recovery.jpg

[AmPat]

The total of cost of all the projects submitted by Tennessee is $338,370,000:eek::eek::eek:
Germantown??? Germantown is filled with fairly affluent people. Who is overseeing this pork?:confused:

[Rebel Yell]

The total of cost of all the projects submitted by Tennessee is $338,370,000:eek::eek::eek:
Germantown??? Germantown is filled with fairly affluent people. Who is overseeing this pork?:confused:

That's the way GA is. Rural GA isn't getting a dime. Not that I WANT any of it, its just the point.

[BSR]

Site is toast.

[Zeus]

Site is toast.


Try agian. Still works on this end.

[PoliCon]

Try agian. Still works on this end.

Still worked for me - worked to piss me off as well.

[Molon Labe]

Virginia: mostly for downstate, of course. :rolleyes:

Linda
Notice the poorer areas....Lynchburg, Onancock.

[Eldarwen Half-Elven]

I doubt any portion of my county gets anything out of it at all... :confused:

[patsfan]

My state isn't even on the list. But we lost our RINO Sentor to the Commerce Dept.

[PoliCon]

My state isn't even on the list. But we lost our RINO Sentor to the Commerce Dept.

We nearly lost our RINO to cancer - instead he IS a cancer. :mad:

[BreeLee]

Very Interesting, I'm in Florida, St. Johns County, Every county listed that is requesting funds is in central to south florida accept one and that would be Jacksonville.

Ironically central to north florida is pretty much red country and the further south you get the bluer it gets. The most pork requests are from the southern most part of florida which is pretty much blue counties with huge immigrant population.