How the Obama Porkulus bill was written

We’re talking $850+ Billion here … so maybe it’s time for a little refresher course on just how the wonderful ObamaStimulus bill was written.
When Obama took office in 2009 it was the first time the Democrats had control of the House, the Senate and the White House in 18 years.  That’s 18 years of Democrat constituents demanding money for this, that or the other thing.  That’s 18 years of Democrats telling their followers that they’re very sorry, but they just don’t have the clout in DC to get the spending bills they’re asking for through the congress.
So when Obama was crowned it was time to open the floodgates … time to take care of all those constituents with all those spending requests who have been ignored for 18 years.
So how do you do this?  Well here’s how Obama did it.  He went to Nancy Pelosi, then the Speaker of the House.  He told Pelosi to go to the House Democrat Caucus and gather together all of those pork spending requests that have gone unfulfilled since the Democrats last ran the show.  Put all those requests together into one bill, and we’ll call it a stimulus bill.  We’ll tell America that this bill is crucial to bringing us out of the recession and putting Americans back to work again.  Pelosi was given one rule .. one limit.  The bill had to come in at less than $1 trillion dollars.  The people were used to billion-dollar price tags, but a trillion-dollar tag might cause a problem.  Leave some wiggle room in case we have to up the ante on a few projects.  Thus was born the $850,000,000,000 “stimulus” plan.
Remember .. the theory here is that all of this money is better spent by government than by the people who worked for and earned it.  Does that make sense to you?

Stimulus dollars Disproportionately went to states represented by Democrats

Saw this from the Heritage foundation

Stimulus Dollars Disproportionately Went to States Represented by Dems

Lachlan Markay

March 20, 2012 at 2:56 pm

According to a new report on President Obama’s stimulus package and its effect on the economy, the amount of stimulus money that went to each state was correlated with the number of Democrats in each state’s congressional delegation.
The data is revealed in a new book by Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and John R. Lott Jr., a prominent conservative academic.
The book, titled Debacle: Obama’s War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future, contains this chart showing the correlation:

The book also examines rates of unemployment, poverty, foreclosures and bankruptcies in the various states in late 2008 and early 2009. In all four cases, more grievous economic conditions were negatively correlated with the allocation of stimulus dollars. States with higher unemployment rates, for instance, tended to receive less stimulus money per capita.
The authors draw a damning conclusion: “It’s not the poor, it’s not foreclosures, it’s not bankruptcies, it’s how many Democrats are in your congressional delegation,” Norquist stated at The Heritage Foundation’s Bloggers Briefing on Tuesday. “That’s what a trillion dollars of spending was all about: crony corruption.”
“And amazingly,” he added, “that doesn’t make the economy grow.”
Scribe has documented the seemingly political use of taxpayer money by the Obama administration, most recently showing spikes in the awarding of federal grant money while Congress was considering major pieces of the president’s agenda.
The reporting in Debacle fits with a longstanding Washington tradition of the political disbursement of federal dollars – a tradition that the current administration has not only continued, but in many cases expanded, campaign promises of transparency and accountability notwithstanding.