This was what they were saying then (you know as people were trying to figure out what was in it)
Today we learn
Few Stimulus Dollars Being Spent in Counties With Highest Unemployment
This will come as a shock to you, I know:
Counties suffering the most from job losses stand to receive the least help from President Barack Obama's plan to spend billions of stimulus dollars on roads and bridges, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Although the intent of the money is to put people back to work, AP's review of more than 5,500 planned transportation projects nationwide reveals that states are planning to spend the stimulus in communities where jobless rates are already lower.
One result among many: Elk County, Pa., isn't receiving any road money despite its 13.8 percent unemployment rate. Yet the military and college community of Riley County, Kan., with its 3.4 percent unemployment, will benefit from about $56 million to build a highway, improve an intersection and restore a historic farmhouse.
The AP analysis found that some counties with the highest unemployment have gotten no spending, including Wheeler County, Ore.; Steuben County, Ind.; Macon County, Ga.; and Crowley County, Colo.; and other getting "minimal" stimulus spending include Vermillion County, Ind.; Lapeer County, Mich.; Presidio County, Texas and Tallahatchi County, Miss.
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