Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Michigan's 8th District Job Haul from Stimulus Bill Tops the State

Michigan's 8th Congressional District, which includes Livingston County, will see more jobs created by the Obama stimulus measure than any other of the state's 15 congressional districts.

That's the conclusion of an analysis of the stimulus measure released Tuesday (February 17, 2009) by the Obama White House.

No other congressional district in Michigan has more projected jobs than the 8th District, although the 15th Congressional District also is listed as potentially seeing 8,000 jobs created. The other districts have job projections ranging from 6,900 to 7,900.

Now, given that Rep. Mike Rogers joined all the other Republicans in opposing the bill from the git-go and thus had no influence on it at all, it's kind of hard to complain that the measure is full of pork barrel spending for members of Congress. I mean, if Democrats were going to jam the bill full of pork, why would they put so much of it in the 8th District, rather than, say, the 7th District (just 7,400 jobs) or the 9th District (7,300 jobs) where there are new Democratic members of Congress?

Sort of pulls the rug out from under that Republican argument, doesn't it?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

These posts by Judy ars so ignorant it makes me wonder if she can chew bubble gum and walk at the same time. Stick to something you know Judy, like so called journalism that doubles as leftist propaganda and silencing free speech that comes from anyone to the right of Karl Marx. Leave the economics to someone who has a clue.

Anonymous said...

I love how internet anonymity leads to people with the false belief that their words carry weight.

Rather than attempting to contend her post by using logic, Anonymous is able to show off his huge e-balls by throwing around juvenile insults. *note the lack of hypocrisy, since I sign my work*

Now if you didn't care for her blog post, you could have taken the route of saying something like: due to Rogers being in the House, his vote didn't have much leverage and he can not be blamed for not being able to trade it for more 8th District help. But that would require thoughtful analysis, and you wouldn't stay anonymous if your words were something to be proud of, would you?