The Recovery.Gov site is a fascinating tool for tracking where the empire has squandered money. Given that seeing where the money goes provides and indication of what is important to them. Here in Texas, $1,826,240,000 has been spent so far. That is 1.8 BILLION spent. What do they have to show for it? 19,572 jobs. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that is over a million dollars per job. It would be nice to have one of those million dollar jobs.
My CONgress critter is up there in the top five. In the 25th District, $1, 722, 914,979 has been given which has provided 566.8(yes that is .8) jobs. How Lloyd Doggett managed to secure 1.7 BILLION of the stimulus is a mystery. Could it be because he supports all that Peolosi wants, could it be that this CONgressman who opposed going into debt for the previous tyrant has no qualms about going into debt for a new tyrant just because his party is in office? We will never know the truth on that. What I do know is that it is good that he has a government job, because if he was in the private sector, spending 1.7 BILLION for a lousy 566.8 jobs would be seen as bad business. I bet those 566.8 people enjoy those high paying government jobs.
The big winner is Lamar Smith’s 21st Congressional district. He received 3.2 BILLION for 10,095.3 jobs. His ratio of dollars for jobs is a little better than Doggett’s although there are questions about how much bang he got for the buck on that one as well. What do they have in common? They both represent parts of Travis County. They are congressional district neighbors (gee, how quaint). Isn’t it interesting that 10,000 of the reported 19,000 jobs saved in Texas are in the 78701 zip code, which is downtown Austin? Hmmm…Isn’t that almost the bulk of jobs credited to Lamar Smith? Hmmm… the statisticians wouldn’t be double counting jobs for the report would they?
We need less federal government intrusion. We need more accountability and better business sense in government officials. With the unemployment rate near 20%, we need more than a paltry amount of jobs. Reducing the taxes on businesses and people would do more to create jobs than all this stimulus is doing.
We need LESS government, rather than more government that does less.
Liberty for Texas and the South!
J Murrah
Current Affairs, Lamar Smith, Lloyd Doggett, Political Well Being, stimulus for Texas, stimulus money, Travis County
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